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Community mental health care NMDS 2017–18

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term645692
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 25/01/2018
DSS type:Help on this termNational Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:Help on this term

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:Help on this term

Mental health service contact

Implementation start date:Help on this term01/07/2017
Implementation end date:Help on this term30/06/2018
Comments:Help on this term

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:Help on this term
See also Activity based funding: Mental health care DSS 2016-17
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 28/02/2017
Supersedes Community mental health care NMDS 2016-17
  • Health, Superseded 17/08/2017
See also Community mental health care NMDS 2017–18: National Community Mental Health Care Database, 2019; Quality Statement
  • AIHW Data Quality Statements, Standard 09/10/2019
Has been superseded by Community mental health care NMDS 2018–19
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Health, Superseded 12/12/2018
See also Statistical Area Level 1 of usual residence National Best Endeavours Data Set 2017-18
  • Health, Superseded 25/01/2018

Metadata items in this Data Set SpecificationHelp on this term

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Seq No.Help on this termMetadata itemHelp on this termObligationHelp on this termMax occursHelp on this term
-Episode of care—mental health legal status, code NMandatory1
-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.

Mandatory1
-Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier, code NMandatory1
-Establishment—region identifier, X[X]Mandatory1
-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.

Mandatory1
-Establishment—sector, code NMandatory1
-Establishment—service unit cluster identifier, XXXXXMandatory1
-Establishment—service unit cluster name, text XXX[X(97)]Mandatory1
-Mental health service contact—patient/client participation indicator, yes/no code NMandatory1
-Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYYMandatory1
-Mental health service contact—service duration, total minutes NNNMandatory1
-Mental health service contact—session type, code NMandatory1
-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:  

Mandatory1
-Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2016) NNNNMandatory1
-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.
Mandatory1
-Person—Indigenous status, code NMandatory1
-Person—marital status, code NMandatory1
-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.

Mandatory1
-Person—sex, code NMandatory1
-Person—unique identifier used indicator, yes/no code NMandatory1
-Specialised mental health service organisation—organisation identifier, XXXXMandatory1
-Specialised mental health service organisation—organisation name, text XXX[X(97)]Mandatory1
-Specialised mental health service—ambulatory service unit identifier, XXXXXXMandatory1
-Specialised mental health service—ambulatory service unit name, text XXX[X(97)]Mandatory1
-Specialised mental health service—target population group, code NMandatory1
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