Episode of mental health care—episode start date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Episode of mental health care start date |
METEOR identifier: | 653738 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 25/01/2018 |
Definition: | The date on which an episode of mental health care formally or statistically commences, as expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
Data Element Concept: | Episode of mental health care—episode start date |
Value Domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
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Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Date | |
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Data type: | Date/Time | |
Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
Maximum character length: | 8 |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The definition of a start date on which an episode of care commences may differ between settings. Therefore, for the purposes of activity based funding reporting the following definitions apply: Admitted episodes refer to the period of care provided to a consumer who is admitted for care to a specialised psychiatric inpatient service or to a general public hospital for the purposes of receiving mental health care (i.e. the consumer would have a mental health care type). The period of care is commenced when the consumer has an admission and ceases with a separation. The admission and/or separation may be formal or statistical. Ambulatory episodes refer to the care provided to consumers in a non-admitted setting and which does not take place in an admitted or residential setting. The service providing the care may be a specialised community-based ambulatory mental health service or it may be a non-specialised non-admitted public hospital service. The commencement of an ambulatory episode will occur in conjunction with a service contact, that may have been triggered by a new referral to community care or, if the consumer has previously been treated by the ambulatory team, the recommencement of care for a specified purpose or goal. Residential episodes refer to the period of care provided to a consumer who is admitted for care to a specialised community-based residential service. This period of care commences with an admission, and ceases with a separation. An episode reference period may be submitted when an episode continues for more than one financial year. |
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Collection methods: | The values for this data element can be derived from existing data collections in the following circumstances: Admitted patients - Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY Residential patients - Episode of residential care—episode start date, DDMMYYYY. |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Episode of mental health care—episode start date, DDMMYYYY Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Superseded 28/02/2017 Has been superseded by Episode of mental health care—episode start date, DDMMYYYY Health!, Superseded 17/01/2020 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Activity based funding: Mental health care NBEDS 2017-18 Health!, Superseded 25/01/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 |