Community mental health care NMDS 2017–18

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	645692
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 25/01/2018
DSS type:	National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:	The Community mental health care national minimum data set (CMHC NMDS) includes data about Mental health 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. The scope covers all ambulatory mental health care service units that deliver clinical care and are administered or funded by state and territory governments. The scope of the collection includes ambulatory clinical mental health care provided by service units covering all target populations and includes general adult, child and adolescent, youth, older persons and forensic community mental health service units. The scope excludes ambulatory equivalent same day separations. The scope excludes support services that are not specialised mental health care services (see Specialised mental health service) and services provided by non-government organisations. The scope excludes 'in-reach' mental health service contacts, that is, service contacts provided to patients admitted to psychiatric hospitals or designated psychiatric units in acute care hospitals, and those resident in 24-hour staffed specialised residential mental health services. The following metadata items are of particular relevance to the scope of the CMHC NMDS: Ambulatory mental health care service Specialised mental health service

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:

Mental health service contact

Implementation start date:

01/07/2017

Implementation end date:

30/06/2018

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

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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 10th edn) ANN{.N[N]} *DSS specific information:* Codes can be used either 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 Outcome 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 2016) N(9) *DSS specific information:* The following SA2 codes have been agreed by the Mental Health Information Strategy Standing Committee (MHISSC) as supplementary codes for use in the Community Mental Health Care NMDS:	Mandatory	1
-	Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2016) 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)] *DSS specific information:* For mental health collections, the Person identifier for a uniquely identifiable person should be consistent between National minimum data sets and other associated collections, and across collection periods, where technically possible.	Mandatory	1
-	Person—sex, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—unique identifier used indicator, yes/no code N	Mandatory	1
-	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 2017–18

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