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Admitted patient palliative care NMDS 2008-09

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term361960
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 04/02/2009
DSS type:Help on this termNational Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:Help on this term

The scope of this data set is admitted patients receiving palliative care in all public and private acute hospitals, and free standing day hospital facilities. Hospitals operated by the Australian Defence Force, correctional authorities and Australia's external territories are not currently included.

Palliative care patients are identified by the data element Hospital service—care type, code N[N].N.

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:Help on this term

Episodes of care for admitted patients.

Collection methods:Help on this term

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 collected and collated nationally

Financial years ending 30 June each year.

Implementation start date:Help on this term01/07/2008
Implementation end date:Help on this term30/06/2009
Comments:Help on this term

Scope links with other NMDSs

Episodes of care for admitted patients receiving palliative care in all public and private acute hospitals and free standing day hospital facilities:

  • Admitted patient care NMDS.
  • Admitted patient mental health care NMDS.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termNational Health Information Group

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Admitted patient palliative care NMDS 2007-08
  • Health, Superseded 05/02/2008
Has been superseded by Admitted patient palliative care NMDS 2009-10
  • Health, Superseded 05/01/2010

Metadata items in this Data Set SpecificationHelp on this term

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Seq No.Help on this termMetadata itemHelp on this termObligationHelp on this termMax occursHelp on this term
-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

Mandatory1
-Episode of admitted patient care—admission mode, code NMandatory1
-Episode of admitted patient care—number of days of hospital-in-the-home care, total {N[NN]}Mandatory1
-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
Mandatory1
-Episode of admitted patient care—separation mode, code NMandatory1
-Episode of care—additional diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 6th 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.
Mandatory1
-Episode of care—principal diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 6th edn) ANN{.N[N]}Conditional1
-Episode of care—principal source of funding, hospital code NNMandatory1
-Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNNMandatory1
-Hospital service—care type, code N[N].NMandatory1
-Patient—previous specialised treatment, code N

DSS specific information:

For palliative care, the value of this item is in its use in enabling approximate identification of the number of new palliative care patients receiving specialised treatment. The use of this metadata item in this way would be improved by the reporting of this data by community-based services.
Mandatory1
-Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2007) NNNNNMandatory1
-Person—country of birth, code (SACC 1998) NNNNMandatory1
-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.
Conditional1
-Person—Indigenous status, code NMandatory1
-Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]Conditional1
-Person—sex, code NMandatory1
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