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Community mental health establishments NMDS 2004-05

This item has been superseded by a newer version by one or more Registration Authorities.

Definition

Data required for reporting by specialised psychiatric services that deliver ambulatory services, in both institutional and community settings and/or community-based residential care. It does not extend to services provided to patients who are in general (non-specialised) care who may be receiving treatment or rehabilitation for psychiatric conditions.

The data provided through the National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) - Community Mental Health Establishments supplements that reported for psychiatric and acute care hospitals through the NMDS-Admitted Patient Mental Health Care.

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

Below is a list of all the components within this Dataset Specification.
Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
If the items must occur in a particular order in the dataset, the sequence number is included before the item name.

Data Elements
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
Establishment—geographical location, code (ASGC 2004) NNNNN Number 5 mandatory 1
Establishment—number of available beds for admitted patients/residents, average N[NNN] - - mandatory 1
Establishment—number of separations (financial year), total N[NNNNN] Number 6 mandatory 1
Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN - - mandatory 1
Establishment—recurrent expenditure (salaries and wages) (financial year), total Australian currency N[N(8)] Currency 9 mandatory 1
Specialised mental health service—service setting, code N
Specific Information:
Only permissible values 2, 3 and 9 are to be used for the Community Mental Health Establishments National Minimum Data Set (NMDS). Domain value 1 is not applicable.
 Number 1 mandatory 1

References


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