Community mental health care NMDS 2012-13

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Set Specification

METeOR identifier:

468200

Registration status:

Health, Superseded 07/02/2013

DSS type:

National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)

Scope:

This NMDS includes data about 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.

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:

Mental health service contact

Implementation start date:

01/07/2012

Implementation end date:

30/06/2013

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Supersedes Community mental health care NMDS 2011-12 Health, Superseded 07/03/2012

Has been superseded by Community mental health care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Superseded 07/03/2014

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Episode of care—principal diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 7th edn) ANN{.N[N]} *DSS specific information:* Codes can be used 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.	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—region identifier, X[X]	Mandatory	1
-	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 Outcomes and Casemix collection and any future mental health collections.	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—sector, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—service unit cluster identifier, XXXXX	Mandatory	1
-	Establishment—service unit cluster name, text XXX[X(97)]	Mandatory	1
-	Mental health service contact—patient/client participation indicator, yes/no code N	Mandatory	1
-	Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY *DSS specific information:* Collection of the date of each service contact with health service providers allows a description or profile of service utilisation by a person or persons during an episode of care. The National Health Data Committee acknowledges that information about group sessions or activities that do not result in a dated entry being made in each individual participant's patient/client record is not obtained from the data collected from this metadata item.	Mandatory	1
-	Mental health service contact—service contact duration, total minutes NNN	Mandatory	1
-	Mental health service contact—session type, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—area of usual residence, statistical area level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2011) N(9)	Mandatory	1
-	Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2011) NNNN	Mandatory	1
-	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.	Mandatory	1
-	Person—Indigenous status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—marital status, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—sex, code N	Mandatory	1
-	Specialised mental health service organisation—organisation identifier, XXXX	Mandatory	1
-	Specialised mental health service organisation—organisation name, text XXX[X(97)]	Mandatory	1
-	Specialised mental health service—ambulatory service unit identifier, XXXXXX	Mandatory	1
-	Specialised mental health service—ambulatory service unit name, text XXX[X(97)]	Mandatory	1
-	Specialised mental health service—target population group, code N	Mandatory	1

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