Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Health, Standard 20/01/2021

Data element concept attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Health, Standard 20/01/2021

Community-based mental health care and clinical settings

Value domain attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

• ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018
• Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016
• Commonwealth Department of Health, Standard 14/10/2015
• Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Not progressed 15/04/2019
• Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005
• Disability, Standard 07/10/2014
• Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010
• Health, Standard 01/03/2005
• Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010
• Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005
• Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012
• Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014
• National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
• Tasmanian Health, Standard 31/08/2016
• WA Health, Standard 06/03/2014
• Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022

Representational attributes

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Requires services to record the date of each service contact, including the same date where multiple visits are made on one day (except where the visits may be regarded as a continuation of the one service contact). Where an individual patient/client participates in a group activity, a service contact date is recorded if the person's participation in the group activity results in a dated entry being made in the patient's/client's record.

For collection from community based (ambulatory and non-residential) agencies.

The service contact is required for clinical audit and other quality assurance purposes.

Relational attributes