Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 722680 |
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| Definition: | The sum of the number of days or part days of stay that the person received care as an admitted patient or resident within a designated psychiatric unit, minus the sum of leave days occurring during the stay within the designated unit. |
| Context: | Admitted patient and residential mental health care: This metadata item is required to identify the characteristics of patients treated in specialist psychiatric units located within acute care hospitals or 24-hour staffed community-based residential services and to analyse the activities of these units and services. Community mental health care: This metadata item is required to identify the characteristics of patients treated in specialist psychiatric 24-hour staffed community-based residential services and to analyse the activities of these units. The metadata item is necessary to describe and evaluate the progress of mainstreaming of mental health services. |
Episode of care—number of psychiatric care days
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Episode of care |
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| Definition: | A period of health care with a defined start and end. |
| Specialisation of: | Service episode |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Number of psychiatric care days |
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| Definition: | A count of days of in which specialised psychiatric care was received. |
| Property group: | Performance indicators |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Episode of care—number of psychiatric care days
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Episode of care—number of psychiatric care days, total N[NNNN]
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