Episode of care—mental health legal status

Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METeOR identifier:	542158
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Tasmanian Health, Endorsed 20/12/2016 ACT Health, Final 09/08/2018
Definition:	Whether a person is treated on an involuntary basis under the relevant state or territory mental health legislation, at any time during an episode of admitted patient care, an episode of residential care or treatment of a patient/client by a community based service during a reporting period. Involuntary patients are persons who are compulsorily treated in hospital or in the community under state and territory mental health legislation for the purpose of assessment or provision of appropriate treatment or care.
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class:	Episode of care
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:	Mental health legal status
Definition:	An indicator of whether care was provided under relevant state or territory mental health legislation compulsory treatment provisions.
Property group:	Legal characteristics
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Episode of care—mental health legal status Health, Standard 20/01/2021 Supersedes Episode of care—mental health legal status Health, Superseded 07/03/2014
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 Tasmanian Health, Archived 19/06/2020 ACT Health, Final 09/08/2018 Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Tasmanian Health, Endorsed 19/06/2020