Patient—first episode of mental health care at a mental health service organisation, code N
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | First episode of mental health care at organisation descriptor |
| METEOR identifier: | 575296 |
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| Definition: | A descriptor of the client/patient's initial presentation at the mental health service organisation that is providing the current treatment, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Patient—first episode of mental health care at a mental health service organisation descriptor |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||
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| Submitting organisation: | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority | ||||||||
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| Comments: | A mental health service organisation is a separately constituted specialised mental health service that is responsible for the clinical governance, administration and financial management of service units providing specialised mental health care. A specialised mental health service organisation may consist of one or more service units based in different locations and providing services in admitted patient, residential and ambulatory settings. For example, a specialised mental health service organisation may consist of several hospitals or two or more community centres. Where the specialised mental health service organisation consists of multiple service units, those units can be considered to be components of the same organisation where they:
For most states and territories, the specialised mental health service organisation is equivalent to the Area/District Mental Health Service. These are usually organised to provide the full range of admitted patient, residential and ambulatory services to a given catchment population. However, the term 'specialised mental health service organisation' may also be used to refer to health care organisations which provide only one type of mental health service (e.g. acute admitted patient care) or which serve a specialised or state-wide function. | ||||||||
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| Submitting organisation: | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority | ||||||||
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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