Community mental health care NMDS 2008-09

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	362308
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 04/02/2009
DSS type:	National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:	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:	Mental health service contact
Implementation start date:	01/07/2008
Implementation end date:	30/06/2009
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Community mental health care NMDS 2007-08 Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 Has been superseded by Community mental health care NMDS 2009-10 Health, Superseded 05/01/2010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 Specification

Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	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	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	Mandatory	1
-	Mental health service contact—patient/client participation indicator, yes/no code N	Mandatory	1
-	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.	Mandatory	1
-	Mental health service contact—service contact duration, total minutes NNN	Mandatory	1
-	Mental health service contact—session type, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2007) 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