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Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14

Data Set Specification Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term491555
Registration status:Help on this term

Health, Superseded 11/04/2014

DSS type:Help on this termNational Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:Help on this term

The purpose of the Admitted patient care national minimum data set (APC NMDS) is to collect information about care provided to admitted patients in Australian hospitals.

The scope of the APC NMDS is episodes of care for admitted patients in all public and private acute and psychiatric hospitals, free standing day hospital facilities and alcohol and drug treatment centres in Australia. Hospitals operated by the Australian Defence Force, corrections authorities and in Australia's off-shore territories may also be included. Hospitals specialising in dental, ophthalmic aids and other specialised acute medical or surgical care are included.

Hospital boarders and still births are not included as they are not admitted to hospital. Posthumous organ procurement episodes are also not included.

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:Help on this termEpisodes of care for admitted patients
Collection methods:Help on this term

Data are collected at each hospital from patient administrative and clinical record systems. Hospitals 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 collation, on an annual basis.

Periods for which data are collected and nationally collated

Financial years ending 30 June each year.

Implementation start date:Help on this term01/07/2013
Implementation end date:Help on this term30/06/2014
Comments:Help on this term

Scope links with other NMDSs

Episodes of care for admitted patients which occur partly or fully in designated psychiatric units of public acute hospitals or in public psychiatric hospitals:

  • Admitted patient mental health care NMDS.

Episodes of care for admitted patients where care type is palliative care:

  • Admitted patient palliative care NMDS.

Glossary items

Glossary terms that are relevant to this National minimum data set are included here.

Admission

Clinical intervention

Clinical review

Diagnosis

Elective surgery

Episode of acute care

Geographic indicator

Hospital boarder

Hospital-in-the-home care

Intensive care unit

Live birth

Neonate

Newborn qualification status

Organ procurement - posthumous

Resident

Residential mental health care service

Same-day patient

Separation

Urban Centre

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Activity based funding: Admitted acute hospital care DSS 2013-2014

        Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 01/03/2013

Supersedes Admitted patient care NMDS 2012-13

        Health, Superseded 02/05/2013

Has been superseded by Admitted patient care NMDS 2014-15

        Health, Superseded 13/11/2014

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +
Activity based funding: Admitted acute hospital care DSS 2013-2014

        Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 01/03/2013

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2013
Implementation end date: 30/06/2014

Activity based funding: Admitted sub-acute and non-acute hospital care DSS 2013-2014

        Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 11/10/2012

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2013
Implementation end date: 30/06/2014

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification Help on this term

Seq No.Help on this termMetadata itemHelp on this termObligationHelp on this termMax occursHelp on this term
- Elective surgery waiting times cluster

Conditional obligation:

This data element cluster is to be reported for patients on waiting lists for elective surgery, which are managed by public acute hospitals and have a category 1 or 2 assigned for the reason for removal from the elective surgery waiting list.
Conditional99
      -Elective care waiting list episode—listing date for care, DDMMYYYYMandatory1
      -Elective surgery waiting list episode—clinical urgency, code NMandatory1
      -Elective surgery waiting list episode—extended wait patient indicator, code NMandatory1
      -Elective surgery waiting list episode—indicator procedure, code NNMandatory1
      -Elective surgery waiting list episode—overdue patient status, code NMandatory1
      -Elective surgery waiting list episode—reason for removal from a waiting list, code NMandatory1
      -Elective surgery waiting list episode—surgical specialty (of scheduled doctor), code NNMandatory1
      -Elective surgery waiting list episode—waiting time (at removal), total days N[NNN]Mandatory1
      -Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN

Conditional obligation:

This is the establishment identifier of the contracting hospital and is reported for contracted patients only.
Conditional1
-Address—Australian postcode, Australian postcode code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN}

DSS specific information:

To be reported for the address of the patient.
Mandatory1
-Contracted hospital care—organisation identifier, NNX[X]NNNNNMandatory1
-Episode of admitted patient care (newborn)—number of qualified days, total N[NNNN]Conditional1
-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—admission urgency status, code NMandatory1
-Episode of admitted patient care—condition onset flag, code NMandatory99
-Episode of admitted patient care—duration of continuous ventilatory support, total hours NNNN

Conditional obligation:

This data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in continuous ventilatory support.
Conditional1
-Episode of admitted patient care—intended length of hospital stay, code NMandatory1
-Episode of admitted patient care—length of stay in intensive care unit, total hours NNNN

Conditional obligation:

The data element is only required to be reported for episodes of care where the admitted patient spent time in an intensive care unit.
Conditional1
-Episode of admitted patient care—number of days of hospital-in-the-home care, total {N[NN]}Mandatory1
-Episode of admitted patient care—number of leave days, total N[NN]

DSS specific information:

For the provision of state and territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies:

(Episode of admitted patient care—separation date, DDMMYYYY minus Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY) minus Admitted patient hospital stay—number of leave days, total N[NN] must be ≥ 0 days.

Mandatory1
-Episode of admitted patient care—patient election status, code NMandatory1
-Episode of admitted patient care—procedure, code (ACHI 8th edn) NNNNN-NN

DSS specific information:

As a minimum requirement procedure codes must be valid codes from the Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) procedure codes and validated against the nationally agreed age and sex edits. More extensive edit checking of codes may be utilised within individual hospitals and state and territory information systems.

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.

Record all procedures undertaken during an episode of care in accordance with the ACHI (8th edition) Australian Coding Standards.

The order of codes should be determined using the following hierarchy:

  • procedure performed for treatment of the principal diagnosis
  • procedure performed for the treatment of an additional diagnosis
  • diagnostic/exploratory procedure related to the principal diagnosis
  • diagnostic/exploratory procedure related to an additional diagnosis for the episode of care.
Mandatory99
-Episode of admitted patient care—referral source, public psychiatric hospital code NNConditional1
-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 8th edn) ANN{.N[N]}

Conditional obligation:

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.
Conditional99
-Episode of care—inter-hospital contracted patient status, code NMandatory1
-Episode of care—mental health legal status, code NMandatory1
-Episode of care—number of psychiatric care days, total N[NNNN]

DSS specific information:

Total days in psychiatric care must be: ≥ zero; and ≤ length of stay.

Mandatory1
-Episode of care—principal diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 8th edn) ANN{.N[N]}

Conditional obligation:

The principal diagnosis is a major determinant in the classification of Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups and Major Diagnostic Categories.

Where the principal diagnosis is recorded prior to discharge (as in the annual census of public psychiatric hospital patients), it is the current provisional principal diagnosis. Only use the admission diagnosis when no other diagnostic information is available. The current provisional diagnosis may be the same as the admission diagnosis.

Mandatory1
-Episode of care—source of funding, patient funding source code NNMandatory1
-Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier, code N

DSS specific information:

This data element applies to the location of the establishment and not to the patient's area of usual residence.
Mandatory1
-Establishment—geographic remoteness, admitted patient care remoteness classification (ASGC-RA) NMandatory1
-Establishment—organisation identifier (state/territory), NNNNNMandatory1
-Establishment—region identifier, X[X]Mandatory1
-Establishment—sector, code NMandatory1
-Hospital service—care type, code N[N]Mandatory1
-Injury event—activity type, code (ICD-10-AM 8th edn) ANNNN

DSS specific information:

As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM classification.
Mandatory99
-Injury event—external cause, code (ICD-10-AM 8th edn) ANN{.N[N]}

DSS specific information:

As a minimum requirement, the external cause codes must be listed in the ICD-10-AM classification.
Mandatory99
-Injury event—place of occurrence, code (ICD-10-AM 8th edn) ANN{.N[N]}

DSS specific information:

To be used with ICD-10-AM external cause codes.
Mandatory99
-Patient—hospital insurance status, code NMandatory1
-Person—area of usual residence, statistical area level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2011) N(9)Mandatory1
-Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2011) 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.
Mandatory1
-Person—eligibility status, Medicare code NMandatory1
-Person—Indigenous status, code NMandatory1
-Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]Mandatory1
-Person—sex, code NMandatory1
-Person—weight (measured), total grams NNNN

Conditional obligation:

Weight on the date the infant is admitted should be recorded if the weight is less than or equal to 9000g and age is less than 365 days.

DSS specific information:

For the provision of state and territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies this metadata item must be consistent with diagnoses and procedure codes for valid grouping.
Conditional1
-Record—identifier, X[X(14)]

DSS specific information:

In the context of the Admitted patient care NMDS, the Record identifier data element exists to aid with data processing. This data element is generated for inclusion in data submissions to facilitate referencing of specific records in discussions between the receiving agency and the reporting body. It is to be used solely for this purpose.

When stipulated in a data specification, each record in a data submission will be assigned a unique numeric or alphanumeric record identifier to permit easy referencing of individual records in discussions between the receiving agency and the reporting body. The unique record identifier assigned by the reporting body should be generated in a fashion that allows the associated data record to be traced to its original form in the reporting body's source database.

Reporting jurisdictions may use their own alphabetic, numeric or alphanumeric coding system.

This field cannot be left blank.

Mandatory1

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