Mental health service contact—session type, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Mental health service contact—session type |
| METEOR identifier: | 286832 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 07/02/2013 |
| Definition: | Whether a service contact is provided for one or more patient(s)/client(s), as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Mental health service contact—session type |
| Value Domain: | Session type code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Individual session |
| 2 | Group session | |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | A service contact is regarded as an individual session where the service is provided for one patient/client with or without third party involvement. A service contact is regarded as a group session where two or more patients/clients are participating in the service contact with or without third parties and the nature of the service would normally warrant dated entries in the clinical records of the patients/clients in question. A service contact is also regarded as a group session where third parties for two or more patients/clients are participating in the service contact without the respective patients/clients and the nature of the service would normally warrant dated entries in the clinical records of the patients/clients in question. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Mental health service contact—session type, code N Health, Superseded 02/02/2016 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | |