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Establishment—number of group session occasions of service for non-admitted patients (district nursing services), total N[NNNNN]

Data Element Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termGroup sessions—district nursing services
Synonymous names:Help on this termType of non-admitted patient care - district nursing services group sessions
METEOR identifier:Help on this term270482
Registration status:Help on this term

Health, Standard 01/03/2005

Definition:Help on this term

The total number of occasions of examination, consultation, treatment or other services provided as group sessions to non-admitted patients by the district nursing service of an establishment.

Data Element Concept:Help on this termEstablishment—number of group session occasions of service for non-admitted patients
Value Domain:Help on this termTotal group sessions N[NNNNN]

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termTotal
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termN[NNNNN]
Maximum character length:Help on this term6
Unit of measure:Help on this termGroup session

Data element attributes Help on this term

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

District nursing services:

  • are for medical/nursing/psychiatric care
  • are provided by a nurse, paramedic or medical officer
  • involve travel by the service provider 
  • exclude care provided by staff from a unit classified in the community health category.

Each group is to be counted once, irrespective of size or the number of staff providing services.

A patient who first contacts the hospital and receives non-admitted care, for example through emergency departments, and is subsequently admitted, should have both components of care enumerated separately. Where possible, non-admitted occasions of service that are provided to patients who are subsequently admitted should be identified as a subset of the total occasions of service.

Collection methods:Help on this termAt present, occasions of service to groups are counted in an inconsistent manner. The numbers of occasions of service should be collected for both individual and group sessions for public psychiatric hospitals and alcohol and drug hospitals.
Comments:Help on this term

Outreach/community care is care delivered by hospital employees to the patient in the home, place of work or other non-hospital site. The distinction between non-admitted patient care and outreach care is that for non-admitted patient care the patients travel to the health care providers while for outreach care the health care providers travel to the patients. This distinction creates difficulties for community health centres. These centres are to be included in the national minimum data set where they are funded as sections within establishments that fall within the scope of the National Health Data Dictionary.

For example, baby clinics, immunisation groups or aged care assessment teams, which are funded through acute hospitals, may provide care to some clients within the hospital grounds or externally. It is intended that all community health activity be measured under community health regardless of where the services are provided.

This metadata item is derived from metadata items that are not currently specified in METeOR, but which are recorded in various ways by hospitals/outpatient departments. Examples include identifiers of individual consultations/visits, and diagnostic tests.

This metadata item identifies types of services provided to non-admitted patients in different institutional ways in different systems. It is not a summary casemix classification.

The list of Type of non-admitted patient care categories was to be developed using typical functional units or cost centres within existing institutions. These would include designated wards or departments and specialised clinics. Although the current statistical/financial returns submitted to the various health authorities by their hospitals do not provide a minimum subset, an effort has been made to define the categories in respect to those areas commonly collected. Many functional units provide services to both admitted patients and non-admitted patients, for example pathology. Only occasions of service for non-admitted patients should be included in this section.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
National minimum data set working parties

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Is re-engineered from PDF Group sessions, version 1, Derived DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (14.1 KB)

        No registration status

Is re-engineered from PDF Type of non-admitted patient care, version 1, Derived DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (26.0 KB)

        No registration status

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +
Public hospital establishments NMDS

        Health, Superseded 21/03/2006

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2005
Implementation end date: 30/06/2006

Public hospital establishments NMDS

        Health, Superseded 23/10/2006

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2006
Implementation end date: 30/06/2007

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2007-08

        Health, Superseded 05/02/2008

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2007
Implementation end date: 30/06/2008

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2008-09

        Health, Superseded 03/12/2008

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2008
Implementation end date: 30/06/2009

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2009-10

        Health, Superseded 05/01/2010

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2009

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2010-11

        Health, Superseded 18/01/2011

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2010
Implementation end date: 30/06/2011

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2011-12

        Health, Superseded 07/12/2011

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2011
Implementation end date: 30/06/2012

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2012-13

        Health, Superseded 07/02/2013

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2012
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

Public hospital establishments NMDS 2013-14

        Health, Superseded 11/04/2014

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2013
Implementation end date: 30/06/2014

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