Service contact—service date, DDMMYYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Service contact date
METEOR identifier:	614184
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 16/03/2016
Definition:	The date of each health service event between a health service provider and patient/client, expressed as DDMMYYY.
Data Element Concept:	Service contact—service date
Value Domain:	Date DDMMYYYY

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Date
Data type:	Date/Time
Format:	DDMMYYYY
Maximum character length:	8

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Collection methods:	For the purposes of activity based funding reporting, this data element can be derived from existing data elements. Specialised ambulatory mental health care: This item can be derived from Mental Health service contact - service contact date. Non-specialised ambulatory mental health care: This item can be derived from Non-admitted patient service event - service date.
Comments:	The service contact is required for clinical audit and other quality assurance purposes.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Service contact—service date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 See also Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 See also Non-admitted patient service event—service date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 24/11/2016 See also Non-admitted patient service event—service date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 25/01/2018 Tasmanian Health, Standard 28/03/2023 See also Non-admitted patient service event—service date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 25/01/2018
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Activity based funding: Mental health care DSS 2016-17 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 28/02/2017 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Conditional obligation: The data element is only required to be reported for patients with an ambulatory mental health episode of care. Activity based funding: Mental health care NBEDS 2017-18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 Conditional obligation: The data element is only required to be reported for patients with an ambulatory mental health episode of care.