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Registration status:	Health, Superseded 07/02/2013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 attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Data element concept:

Mental health service contact—service contact date

METEOR identifier:

295477

Registration status:

Health, Superseded 07/02/2013

Definition:

The date of each mental health service contact between a health service provider and patient/client.

Context:

Community-based mental health care and clinical settings

Object class:

Mental health service contact

Property:

Service contact date

Value domain attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Value domain:

Date DDMMYYYY

METEOR identifier:

270566

Registration status:

ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018
Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016
Commonwealth Department of Health, Standard 14/10/2015
Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Not progressed 15/04/2019
Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005
Disability, Standard 07/10/2014
Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010
Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010
Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005
Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012
Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014
National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Tasmanian Health, Standard 31/08/2016
WA Health, Standard 06/03/2014
Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022

Definition:

The day of a particular month and year.

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Date

Data type:

Date/Time

Format:

DDMMYYYY

Maximum character length:

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.