Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 542158 |
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| 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. |
Episode of care—mental health legal status
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Episode of care |
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| Definition: | A period of health care with a defined start and end. |
| Specialisation of: | Service episode |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Mental health legal status |
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| Definition: | An indicator of whether care was provided under relevant state or territory mental health legislation compulsory treatment provisions. |
| Property group: | Legal characteristics |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Episode of care—mental health legal status
Supersedes Episode of care—mental health legal status
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N
Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N
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