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Episode of care—mental health legal status

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element Concept
METEOR identifier:Help on this term542158
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 20/01/2021
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 20/12/2016
Definition:Help on this term

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 attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:Episode of care
Definition:Help on this termA period of health care with a defined start and end.
Specialisation of:Help on this termService episode

Source and reference attributes

Origin:Help on this termNational Health Data Committee

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:Mental health legal status
Definition:Help on this termAn indicator of whether care was provided under relevant state or territory mental health legislation compulsory treatment provisions.
Property group:Help on this termLegal characteristics

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element concept attributes

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Has been superseded by Episode of care—mental health legal status
  • Health, Standard 20/01/2021
Supersedes Episode of care—mental health legal status
  • Health, Superseded 07/03/2014
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:Help on this term
Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N
  • Health, Superseded 20/01/2021
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 19/06/2020
Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Health, Superseded 18/12/2019
  • Tasmanian Health, Superseded 19/06/2020
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