Community mental health care NMDS 2004-05

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	273044
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 08/12/2004
DSS type:	National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:	Patient level data: Data required for reporting by specialised psychiatric services that deliver ambulatory services, in both institutional and community settings. It does not extend to services provided to patients who are in general (non-specialised) care who may be receiving treatment or rehabilitation for psychiatric conditions. The data provided through the Community mental health care National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) supplements that reported for psychiatric and acute care hospitals through the Admitted patient mental health care NMDS.

Statistical unit:

Service contacts

Collection methods:

National reporting arrangements

State and territory health authorities provide the data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation, on an annual basis.

Periods for which data are collected and nationally collated

Financial years ending 30 June each year.

Implementation start date:

01/07/2004

Implementation end date:

30/06/2005

Comments:

Statistical units are entities from or about which statistics are collected or in respect of which statistics are compiled, tabulated or published

Submitting organisation:

National Health Information Group

Related metadata references:

Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of care—principal diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANN{.N[N]}	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2004) NNNNN	Conditional	1
-	Person—country of birth, code (SACC 1998) NNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY	Mandatory	1
-	Person—Indigenous status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—marital status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—sex, code N	Conditional	1
-	Service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY *DSS specific information:* Collection of the date of each service contact with health service providers allows a description or profile of service utilisation by a person or persons during an episode of care.	Mandatory	1