Community mental health care NMDS 2014-15

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	549878
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 13/11/2014
DSS type:	National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:	The Community mental health care national minimum data set (CMHC 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:	01/07/2014
Implementation end date:	30/06/2015
Comments:	Glossary items Glossary terms that are relevant to this National minimum data set are included here. Admitted patient mental health care service Ambulatory care Ambulatory mental health care service Geographic indicator Resident Residential mental health care service Separation
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Community mental health care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Superseded 07/03/2014 Has been superseded by Community mental health care NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 04/09/2015

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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 8th 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.	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—region identifier, X[X]	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—region name, text XXX[X(57)] *DSS specific information:* Mental health data collections are hierarchical in nature. An identical reporting structure, including region name, should be common between all mental health collections, including the Mental Health Establishments (MHE), Community Mental Health Care (CMHC) and Residential Mental Health Care (RMHC) NMDS's, the Mental Health National Outcomes and Casemix collection and any future mental health collections.	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—sector, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—service unit cluster identifier, XXXXX	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—service unit cluster name, text XXX[X(97)]	Mandatory	1
-	Mental health service contact—patient/client participation indicator, yes/no code N	Mandatory	1
-	Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY	Mandatory	1
-	Mental health service contact—service duration, total minutes NNN	Mandatory	1
-	Mental health service contact—session type, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—area of usual residence, statistical area level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2011) N(9)	Mandatory	1
-	Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2011) NNNN	Mandatory	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
-	Person—unique identifier used indicator, yes/no code N	Mandatory	2
-	Specialised mental health service organisation—organisation identifier, XXXX	Mandatory	1
-	Specialised mental health service organisation—organisation name, text XXX[X(97)]	Mandatory	1
-	Specialised mental health service—ambulatory service unit identifier, XXXXXX	Mandatory	1
-	Specialised mental health service—ambulatory service unit name, text XXX[X(97)]	Mandatory	1
-	Specialised mental health service—target population group, code N	Mandatory	1

Community mental health care NMDS 2014-15

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