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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service episodes of care cluster

Data Set Specification Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term676943
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Indigenous, Standard 07/12/2017
DSS type:Help on this termData Element Cluster
Scope:Help on this term

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services provide care, including but not limited to, for sickness and injury, as well as counselling, health education and screening.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services episodes of care cluster describes the number of episodes of health-care provided by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services that received funding from the Australian Government through the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH).

The three data elements are used together to provide a count of episodes of care by the Indigenous status and sex of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services clients.

Episodes of health care

 MaleFemaleTotal
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander episodes of health careN[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
Non-Indigenous episodes of health careN[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
Unknown Indigenous status episodes of health careN[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
Total episodes of health careN[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

Includes:

  • health care provided through all sources of funding (e.g. OATSIH, State government etc.)
  • transport only if it involves direct provision of health care/information by service staff
  • outreach (e.g. episodes at outstation visits, park clinics, satellite clinics etc.)
  • episodes of health care delivered over the phone
  • episodes of care provided to visitors/transients.

Excludes:

  • residential care
  • administration contacts with clients (e.g. receptionist making appointments for clients)
  • groups (e.g. antenatal classes, men's groups etc.)
  • family/relationship counselling if people don't have their own file/record.
Collection methods:Help on this term

If figures are not available for the full year, an estimate can be made based on a representative part of the year.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service is required to provide counts of male, female and total episodes of health care by Indigenous status, as detailed in the Scope, Episodes of health care table. The total episodes of health care may include episodes for which Indigenous status or sex was not known or not reported.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services DSS
Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017
DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2009
Implementation end date: 30/06/2010

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services DSS
Indigenous, Standard 07/12/2017
DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2011
Implementation end date: 30/06/2012

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification Help 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—number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services episodes of care, N[NN]Mandatory1
-Person—Indigenous status, code N

DSS specific information:

This data element is used to determine the Indigenous status of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service's clients.

In the Indigenous status data element, codes 1 (Aboriginal but not Torres Strait Islander origin), 2 (Torres Strait Islander but not Aboriginal origin) and 3 (Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin) are aggregated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, code 4 (Neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander origin) maps to non-Indigenous and code 9 (Not stated/inadequately described) maps to Unknown Indigenous status.

Mandatory3
-Person—sex, code N

DSS specific information:

This data element is used to determine the sex of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service's client.

Mandatory2
-Service provider organisation—comment, extended text X[X(∞)]

DSS specific information:

This data element is used to capture notes and/or comments about episodes of care and/or client contacts in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service.

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