Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Mental health legal status |
METEOR identifier: | 534063 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 19/06/2020 |
Definition: | Whether a person is treated on an involuntary basis under the relevant state or territory mental health legislation, at any time during an episode of admitted patient care, an episode of residential care or treatment of a patient/client by a community based service during a reporting period, as represented by a code. |
Context: | Mental health care: This metadata item is required to monitor trends in the use of compulsory treatment provisions under state and territory mental health legislation by Australian hospitals and community health care facilities, including 24-hour community based residential services. For those hospitals and community mental health services which provide psychiatric treatment to involuntary patients, mental health legal status information is an essential metadata item within local record systems. |
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Data element concept: | Episode of care—mental health legal status |
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METEOR identifier: | 542158 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 16/10/2023 |
Definition: | Whether a person is treated on an involuntary basis under the relevant state or territory mental health legislation, at any time during an episode of admitted patient care, an episode of residential care or treatment of a patient/client by a community based service during a reporting period. Involuntary patients are persons who are compulsorily treated in hospital or in the community under state and territory mental health legislation for the purpose of assessment or provision of appropriate treatment or care. |
Object class: | Episode of care |
Property: | Mental health legal status |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Mental health legal status code N |
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METEOR identifier: | 471181 |
Registration status: | Tasmanian Health, Standard 20/12/2016 Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 |
Definition: | A code set representing whether a person is treated on an involuntary basis under the relevant state or territory mental health legislation. |
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Guide for use: | The mental health legal status of admitted patients treated within approved hospitals may change many times throughout the episode of care. Patients may be admitted to hospital on an involuntary basis and subsequently be changed to voluntary status; some patients are admitted as voluntary but are transferred to involuntary status during the hospital stay. Multiple changes between voluntary and involuntary status during an episode of care in hospital or treatment in the community may occur depending on the patient's clinical condition and his/her capacity to consent to treatment. Similarly, the mental health legal status of residents treated within residential care services may change on multiple occasions throughout the episode of residential care or residential stay. Approval is required under the state or territory mental health legislation in order to detain patients in hospital for the provision of compulsory mental health care or for patients to be treated compulsorily in the community. |
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Collection methods: | Admitted patients are to be reported as involuntary if the patient is involuntary at any time during the episode of care. Residents in residential mental health services are to be reported as involuntary if the resident is involuntary at any time during the episode of residential care. Patients of ambulatory mental health care services are to be reported as involuntary if the patient is involuntary at the time of a service contact. |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N Health, Superseded 07/03/2014 Has been superseded by Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 16/10/2023 Is used in the formation of Episode of admitted patient care—diagnosis related group, code (AR-DRG v 9.0) ANNA Tasmanian Health, Superseded 19/06/2020 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Admitted patient care NMDS 2014-15 Health, Superseded 13/11/2014 Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Admitted patient care NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 10/11/2015 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2016 Admitted patient care NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Admitted patient care NMDS 2017-18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 Admitted patient care NMDS 2018-19 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Admitted patient care NMDS 2019-20 Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 Implementation end date: 30/06/2020 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2014-15 Health, Superseded 04/02/2015 Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2016 Community mental health care NMDS 2014-15 Health, Superseded 13/11/2014 Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Community mental health care NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 04/09/2015 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2016 Community mental health care NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 17/08/2017 Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Community mental health care NMDS 2017–18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 Community mental health care NMDS 2018–19 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Community mental health care NMDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 Implementation end date: 30/06/2020 Residential mental health care NMDS 2014-15 Health, Superseded 13/11/2014 Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Residential mental health care NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 04/09/2015 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2016 Residential mental health care NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 17/08/2017 Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Residential mental health care NMDS 2017–18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 Residential mental health care NMDS 2018–19 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Residential mental health care NMDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 Implementation end date: 30/06/2020 Tasmanian Admitted Patient Data Set - 2018 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 12/04/2019 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Tasmanian Admitted Patient Data Set - 2019 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 17/06/2020 Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 Implementation end date: 30/06/2020 |