Admitted patient palliative care NMDS 2008-09

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	361960
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 04/02/2009
DSS type:	National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:	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:	Episodes of care for admitted patients.
Collection methods:	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:	01/07/2008
Implementation end date:	30/06/2009
Comments:	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:	National Health Information Group
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Admitted patient palliative care NMDS 2007-08 Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 Has been superseded by Admitted patient palliative care NMDS 2009-10 Health, Superseded 05/01/2010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 Specification

Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	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	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of admitted patient care—admission mode, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of admitted patient care—number of days of hospital-in-the-home care, total {N[NN]}	Mandatory	1
-	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	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of admitted patient care—separation mode, code N	Mandatory	1
-	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.	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of care—principal diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 6th edn) ANN{.N[N]}	Conditional	1
-	Episode of care—principal source of funding, hospital code NN	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Hospital service—care type, code N[N].N	Mandatory	1
-	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.	Mandatory	1
-	Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2007) NNNNN	Mandatory	1
-	Person—country of birth, code (SACC 1998) NNNN	Mandatory	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.	Conditional	1
-	Person—Indigenous status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]	Conditional	1
-	Person—sex, code N	Mandatory	1