Admitted patient mental health care NMDS

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	273048
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 07/12/2005
DSS type:	National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:	The scope of this minimum data set is restricted to admitted patients receiving care in psychiatric hospitals or in designated psychiatric units in acute hospitals. The scope does not currently include patients who may be receiving treatment for psychiatric conditions in acute hospitals who are not in psychiatric units.

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:

Episodes of care for admitted patients

Collection methods:

Data are collected at each hospital from patient administrative and clinical record systems. Hospitals forward data to the relevant state or territory health authority on a regular basis (for example, monthly).

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:

01/07/2005

Implementation end date:

30/06/2006

Comments:

Number of days of hospital in the home care data will be collected from all states and territories except Western Australia from 1 July 2001. Western Australia will begin to collect data from a later date.

Scope links with other NMDS

Episodes of care for admitted patients which occur partly or fully in designated psychiatric units of public acute hospitals or in public psychiatric hospitals:

Admitted patient care NMDS, version 2.
Admitted patient palliative care NMDS, version 2.

Glossary items

Some previous Knowledgebase data element concepts are available in the METeOR glossary. Currently the metadata search in METeOR does not cover glossary items however these items are available through links in the relevant metadata items. In addition links to the glossary terms that are relevant to this National minimum data set are included here.

Resident

Residential mental health care service

Same-day patients

Separation

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

National Health Information Group

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	Episode of admitted patient care (mental health care)—referral destination, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY *DSS specific information:* Right justified and zero filled. admission date <= separation date admission date >= date of birth	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of admitted patient care—diagnosis related group, code (AR-DRG v5.1) ANNA	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of admitted patient care—major diagnostic category, code (AR-DRG v5.1) NN	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of admitted patient care—number of leave days, total N[NN] *DSS specific information:* For the provision of state and territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies: (Episode of admitted patient care—seperation date, DDMMYYYY minus Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY) minus Admitted patient hospital stay—number of leave days, total N[NN] must be >= 0 days.	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of admitted patient care—referral source, public psychiatric hospital code NN	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of admitted patient care—separation date, DDMMYYYY *DSS specific information:* For the provision of state and territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies this field must: be ≤ last day of financial year be ≥ first day of financial year be ≥ Admission date	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of admitted patient care—separation mode, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of care—additional diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANN{.N[N]} *DSS specific information:* An unlimited number of diagnosis and procedure codes should be able to be collected in hospital morbidity systems. Where this is not possible, a minimum of 20 codes should be able to be collected.	Mandatory	99
-	Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of care—number of psychiatric care days, total N[NNNN] *DSS specific information:* Total days in psychiatric care must be >= zero; Total days in psychiatric care must be <= length of stay.	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
-	Hospital service—care type, code N[N].N	Mandatory	1
-	Patient—previous specialised treatment, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—accommodation type (prior to admission), code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—accommodation type (usual), code N[N]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2004) NNNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Person—country of birth, code (SACC 1998) NNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY *DSS specific information:* This field must not be null. National Minimum Data Sets: For the provision of State and Territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies this field must: be less than or equal to Admission date, Date patient presents or Service contact date be consistent with diagnoses and procedure codes, for records to be grouped.	Mandatory	1
-	Person—Indigenous status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—labour force status, acute hospital and private psychiatric hospital admission code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—labour force status, public psychiatric hospital admission code N	Conditional	1
-	Person—marital status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—sex, code N	Mandatory	1

Admitted patient mental health care NMDS

Identifying and definitional attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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