Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Mental health service contact date
METEOR identifier:	295481
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 07/02/2013
Definition:	The date of each mental health service contact between a health service provider and patient/client.
Data Element Concept:	Mental health service contact—service contact date

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Date
Data type:	Date/Time
Format:	DDMMYYYY
Maximum character length:	8
Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Collection methods:	Requires services to record the date of each service contact, including the same date where multiple visits are made on one day (except where the visits may be regarded as a continuation of the one service contact). Where an individual patient/client participates in a group activity, a service contact date is recorded if the person's participation in the group activity results in a dated entry being made in the patient's/client's record. For collection from community based (ambulatory and non-residential) agencies.
Comments:	The service contact is required for clinical audit and other quality assurance purposes.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 20/01/2021
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Community mental health care NMDS 2005-06 Health, Superseded 07/12/2005 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2005 Implementation end date: 30/06/2006 DSS specific information: Collection of the date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. The National Health Data Committee acknowledges that information about group sessions or activities that do not result in a dated entry being made in each individual participant's patient/client record is not obtained from the data collected from this metadata item. Community mental health care NMDS 2006-07 Health, Superseded 23/10/2006 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2006 Implementation end date: 30/06/2007 DSS specific information: Collection of the date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. The National Health Data Committee acknowledges that information about group sessions or activities that do not result in a dated entry being made in each individual participant's patient/client record is not obtained from the data collected from this metadata item. Community mental health care NMDS 2007-08 Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2007 Implementation end date: 30/06/2008 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. The National Health Data Committee acknowledges that information about group sessions or activities that do not result in a dated entry being made in each individual participant's patient/client record is not obtained from the data collected from this metadata item. Community mental health care NMDS 2008-09 Health, Superseded 04/02/2009 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2008 Implementation end date: 30/06/2009 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. The National Health Data Committee acknowledges that information about group sessions or activities that do not result in a dated entry being made in each individual participant's patient/client record is not obtained from the data collected from this metadata item. Community mental health care NMDS 2009-10 Health, Superseded 05/01/2010 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2009 Implementation end date: 30/06/2010 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. The National Health Data Committee acknowledges that information about group sessions or activities that do not result in a dated entry being made in each individual participant's patient/client record is not obtained from the data collected from this metadata item. Community mental health care NMDS 2010-11 Health, Superseded 01/12/2010 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2010 Implementation end date: 30/06/2011 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. The National Health Data Committee acknowledges that information about group sessions or activities that do not result in a dated entry being made in each individual participant's patient/client record is not obtained from the data collected from this metadata item. Community mental health care NMDS 2011-12 Health, Superseded 07/03/2012 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2011 Implementation end date: 30/06/2012 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. The National Health Data Committee acknowledges that information about group sessions or activities that do not result in a dated entry being made in each individual participant's patient/client record is not obtained from the data collected from this metadata item. Community mental health care NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 07/02/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 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. The National Health Data Committee acknowledges that information about group sessions or activities that do not result in a dated entry being made in each individual participant's patient/client record is not obtained from the data collected from this metadata item.