Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Mental health service contact date |
METEOR identifier: | 295481 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 07/02/2013 |
Definition: | The date of each mental health service contact between a health service provider and patient/client. |
Data Element Concept: | Mental health service contact—service contact date |
Value Domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Date | |
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Data type: | Date/Time | |
Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
Maximum character length: | 8 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Collection methods: | 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. |
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Comments: | The service contact is required for clinical audit and other quality assurance purposes. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY Health!, Superseded 20/01/2021 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Community mental health care NMDS 2005-06 Health!, Superseded 07/12/2005 Implementation start date: 01/07/2005 Implementation end date: 30/06/2006 DSS specific information: Collection of the date of each service contact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. Community mental health care NMDS 2006-07 Health!, Superseded 23/10/2006 Implementation start date: 01/07/2006 Implementation end date: 30/06/2007 DSS specific information: Collection of the date of each service contact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. Community mental health care NMDS 2007-08 Health!, Superseded 05/02/2008 Implementation start date: 01/07/2007 Implementation end date: 30/06/2008 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. Community mental health care NMDS 2008-09 Health!, Superseded 04/02/2009 Implementation start date: 01/07/2008 Implementation end date: 30/06/2009 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. Community mental health care NMDS 2009-10 Health!, Superseded 05/01/2010 Implementation start date: 01/07/2009 Implementation end date: 30/06/2010 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. Community mental health care NMDS 2010-11 Health!, Superseded 01/12/2010 Implementation start date: 01/07/2010 Implementation end date: 30/06/2011 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. Community mental health care NMDS 2011-12 Health!, Superseded 07/03/2012 Implementation start date: 01/07/2011 Implementation end date: 30/06/2012 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. Community mental health care NMDS 2012-13 Health!, Superseded 07/02/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 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. |
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Used as Disaggregation
National Healthcare Agreement: P28-Public sector community mental health services, 2010 Health!, Superseded 08/06/2011 |