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Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2020–21

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term717078
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 05/02/2021
DSS type:Help on this termNational Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
Scope:Help on this term

The Alcohol and other drug treatment services national minimum data set (NMDS) is nationally mandated for collection and reporting.

Publicly funded government and non-government agencies providing alcohol and/or drug treatment services. Including community-based ambulatory services and outpatient services.

The following services are currently not included in the coverage:

  • services based in prisons and other correctional institutions;
  • agencies that provide primarily accommodation or overnight stays such as 'sobering-up shelters' and 'half-way houses';
  • agencies that provide services concerned primarily with health promotion;
  • needle and syringe programs;
  • agencies whose sole function is to provide prescribing and/or dosing of methadone; and
  • acute care and psychiatric hospitals, or alcohol and drug treatment units that report to the Admitted patient care NMDS and do not provide treatment to non-admitted patients.

Clients who are on a methadone maintenance program may be included in the collection where they also receive other types of treatment.

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:Help on this term

Completed treatment episodes for clients who participate in a treatment type as specified in the data element Main treatment type for alcohol and other drugs.

Collection methods:Help on this term

Data to be reported in each agency on completed treatment episode and then forwarded to state/territory authorities for collation.

National reporting requirements

State and territory health authorities provide the data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation, on an annual basis.

Periods for which data are collected and nationally collated

Financial years ending 30 June each year.

Implementation start date:Help on this term01/07/2020
Implementation end date:Help on this term30/06/2021
Comments:Help on this term

Glossary items

Glossary terms that are relevant to this National minimum data set are included here.

Cessation of treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

National Health Information Group

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2019–20
  • Health, Superseded 20/02/2020
Has been superseded by Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2021–22
  • Health, Superseded 17/12/2021

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
-Statistical linkage key 581 clusterMandatory1
-Address—Australian postcode, code (Postcode datafile) NNNNMandatory1
-Address—statistical area, level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2016) N(9)

DSS specific information:

For the purposes of the Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS, this data element relates to the site from which a drug treatment service is delivered. For agencies with more than one location, the data element relates to the service delivery outlet.

Mandatory1
-Client—injecting drug use status, code N

Conditional obligation:

This metadata item should only be collected for clients whose treatment episode is related to their own alcohol and other drug use.

Conditional1
-Client—method of drug use (principal drug of concern), code N

Conditional obligation:

This metadata item should only be collected for clients whose treatment episode is related to their own alcohol and other drug use.

Conditional1
-Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—cessation reason, code N[N]Mandatory1
-Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—client type, code NMandatory1
-Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—drug of concern (other), (ASCDC 2011 extended) code NNNN

Conditional obligation:

This metadata item should only be collected for clients whose treatment episode is related to their own alcohol and other drug use.

Conditional5
-Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—drug of concern (principal), (ASCDC 2011 extended) code NNNN

Conditional obligation:

This metadata item should only be collected for clients whose treatment episode is related to their own alcohol and other drug use.

Conditional1
-Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—main treatment type, code N[N]Mandatory1
-Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—other treatment type, code N[N]

Conditional obligation:

This data element should only be reported for those episodes of treatment where the Main treatment type is not 'Assessment only' (Code 7), i.e. 'Assessment only' treatment episodes should not involve additional types of treatment.

Conditional4
-Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—referral source, code NNMandatory1
-Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—service delivery setting, code NMandatory1
-Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—treatment cessation date, DDMMYYYY

DSS specific information:

The date must be later than or the same as the treatment commencement date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Mandatory1
-Episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs—treatment commencement date, DDMMYYYY

DSS specific information:

The date must be earlier than or the same as the treatment cessation date for the episode of treatment for alcohol and other drugs.

Mandatory1
-Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNNMandatory1
-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—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]Mandatory1
-Person—preferred language, code (ASCL 2016) N[NNN]Mandatory1
-Person—sex, code XMandatory1
-Person—usual accommodation type prior to service episode, code NN{.N}Mandatory1
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