Prison dischargee—appointment outside of prison indicator, prisoner health yes/no/unknown code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Appointment outside of prison indicator
METEOR identifier:	624928
Registration status:	Health, Standard 28/04/2016
Definition:	An indicator of whether a prison dischargee has attended a medical appointment outside of prison, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Prison dischargee—appointment outside of prison indicator

Value domain attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
1	Yes
2	No

Supplementary values:

Value	Meaning
9	Unknown

Guide for use:

For use in Prisoner health data collections. If this value domain is used with other metadata then 'Unknown' would map to code 8.

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Guide for use:

Medical appointment outside the prison refers to a routine or specialist appointment with a medical professional.

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* During most recent imprisonment. This data element is included in the Prisoner health NBEDS as the National Prisoner Health Indicators include the indicator: Proportion of prison dischargees who went to a medical appointment outside the prison.