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Community mental health care NMDS 2008-09

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term362308
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  • Health, Superseded 04/02/2009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

This NMDS includes data about service contacts provided by specialised mental health services for patients/clients, other than those admitted to psychiatric hospitals or designated psychiatric units in acute care hospitals, and those resident in 24 hour staffed specialised residential mental health services. 

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:Help on this term

Mental health service contact

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

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Community mental health care NMDS 2007-08
  • Health, Superseded 05/02/2008
Has been superseded by Community mental health care NMDS 2009-10
  • Health, Superseded 05/01/2010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 care—mental health legal status, code NMandatory1
-Episode of care—principal diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 6th 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.

Effective for collection from 01/07/2006

Mandatory1
-Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier, code NMandatory1
-Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNNMandatory1
-Establishment—organisation identifier (state/territory), NNNNNMandatory1
-Establishment—region identifier, X[X]Mandatory1
-Establishment—sector, code NMandatory1
-Mental health service contact—patient/client participation indicator, yes/no code NMandatory1
-Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY

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.

Mandatory1
-Mental health service contact—service contact duration, total minutes NNNMandatory1
-Mental health service contact—session type, code NMandatory1
-Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2007) NNNNNMandatory1
-Person—country of birth, code (SACC 1998) NNNNConditional1
-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.
Mandatory1
-Person—Indigenous status, code NMandatory1
-Person—marital status, code NMandatory1
-Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]Mandatory1
-Person—sex, code NMandatory1
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