Service contact—service date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Service contact date |
METEOR identifier: | 744351 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 17/12/2021 |
Definition: | The date on which a health service contact is made between a health care provider and one or more persons for assessment, care, consultation and/or treatment, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
Data Element Concept: | Service contact—service 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: | For the purposes of activity based funding reporting, this data element can be derived from existing data elements. Specialised ambulatory mental health care: This item can be derived from Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY. Non-specialised ambulatory mental health care: This item can be derived from Non-admitted patient service event—service date, DDMMYYYY. |
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Comments: | The service contact is required for clinical audit and other quality assurance purposes. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Service contact—service date, DDMMYYYY Health!, Superseded 17/12/2021 See also Mental health service contact—service contact date, DDMMYYYY Health!, Standard 20/01/2021 See also Non-admitted patient service event—service date, DDMMYYYY Health!, Standard 25/01/2018 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Activity based funding: Mental health care NBEDS 2022–23 Health!, Standard 17/12/2021 Implementation start date: 01/07/2022 Implementation end date: 30/06/2023 Conditional obligation: The data element is only required to be reported for patients with an ambulatory mental health episode of care. |