Residential mental health care NMDS 2007-08

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	345122
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 05/02/2008
DSS type:	National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:	Episodes of residential care for residents in all government-funded residential mental health care services in Australia, except those residential care services that are in receipt of funding under the Aged Care Act and subject to Commonwealth reporting requirements (i.e. report to the System for the payment of Aged Residential Care (SPARC) collection).

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:

Episodes of residential care.

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

Collection methods:

Data are collected at each service from resident administrative and care related record systems. Services forward data to the relevant state or territory health authority on a regular basis (e.g. monthly).

National reporting arrangements

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

Western Australia will be able to only collect data for 2004-05 for those data elements that were included in the National Health Data Dictionary version 12.

Government-operated services that employ mental health trained staff on-site 24 hours per day are to be included from 1 July 2004.

Government-funded, non-government operated services and non 24-hour staffed services can be included from 1 July 2004, optionally.

For non 24-hour staffed services to be included they must employ mental health-trained staff on-site at least 50 hours per week with at least 6 hours staffing on any single day.

Periods for which data are collected and nationally collated

Financial years ending 30 June each year. The reference period starts on 1 July and ends on 30 June each year.

Implementation start date:

01/07/2007

Implementation end date:

30/06/2008

Comments:

Some admitted patient care services may meet the definition of a residential mental health service. However, as they are admitted patient care services, relevant data on their patients are reported to the National Minimum Data Set for Admitted Patient Care.

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.

Episode of residential care end

Episode of residential care start

Resident

Residential mental health care service

Relational attributes

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Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	Episode of care—additional diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 5th edn) ANN{.N[N]}	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of care—principal diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 5th edn) ANN{.N[N]} *DSS specific information:* Codes can be used from ICD-10-AM or from The ICD-10-AM Mental Health Manual: An Integrated Classification and Diagnostic Tool for Community-Based Mental Health Services, published by the National Centre for Classification in Health 2002. The principal diagnosis should be recorded and coded upon the end of an episode of residential care (i.e. annually for continuing residential care). Effective for collection form 01/07/2006	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of residential care—episode end date, DDMMYYYY *DSS specific information:* Data in this field must: be ≤ last day of reference period be ≥ first day of reference period be ≥ Episode of residential care start date	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of residential care—episode end mode, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of residential care—episode start date, DDMMYYYY *DSS specific information:* Right justified and zero filled. episode of residential care start date ≤ episode of residential care end date. episode of residential care start date ≥ date of birth.	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of residential care—episode start mode, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of residential care—number of leave days, total N[NN] *DSS specific information:* Episode of residential care end date minus episode of residential care start date minus leave days from residential care must be >= 0 days.	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of residential care—referral destination (mental health care), code N	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—organisation identifier (state/territory), NNNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—region identifier, X[X]	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—sector, code N *DSS specific information:* CODE 1 is to be used for government-operated residential mental health care services. CODE 2 to be used for residential mental health care services operated by non-government organisations.	Mandatory	1
-	Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2006) NNNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Person—country of birth, code (SACC 1998) NNNN	Conditional	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—marital status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—sex, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Residential stay—episode start date, DDMMYYYY *DSS specific information:* Right justified and zero filled. Residential stay start date ≤ episode of residential care end date. Residential stay start date ≥ date of birth	Mandatory	1

Residential mental health care NMDS 2007-08

Identifying and definitional attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Relational attributes

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