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Community mental health care NMDS 2013-14

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Definition

The Community mental health care national minimum data set (CMHC NMDS) includes data about service contacts provided by specialised mental health services for patients/clients, other than those admitted to psychiatric hospitals or designated psychiatric units in acute care hospitals, and those resident in 24 hour staffed specialised residential mental health services.

This NMDS was updated on 10 September 2013 to replace the ICD-10-AM 7th edition principal diagnosis data element with its ICD-10-AM 8th edition equivalent, as agreed to by the Mental Health Information Strategy Standing Committee.

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 #
Episode of care—mental health legal status, code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Episode of care—principal diagnosis, code (ICD-10-AM 8th edn) ANN{.N[N]}
Specific Information:
Codes can be used from ICD-10-AM or from The ICD-10-AM Mental Health Manual: An Integrated Classification and Diagnostic Tool for Community-Based Mental Health Services, published by the National Centre for Classification in Health.
 String 6 mandatory 1
Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier, code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Establishment—region identifier, X[X] - - mandatory 1
Establishment—region name, text XXX[X(57)]
Specific Information:
Mental health data collections are hierarchical in nature. An identical reporting structure, including region name, should be common between all mental health collections, including the Mental Health Establishments (MHE), Community Mental Health Care (CMHC) and Residential Mental Health Care (RMHC) NMDS's, the Mental Health National Outcomes and Casemix collection and any future mental health collections.
String 60 mandatory 1
Establishment—sector, code N - - mandatory 1
Establishment—service unit cluster identifier, XXXXX String 5 mandatory 1
Establishment—service unit cluster name, text XXX[X(97)] String 100 mandatory 1
Person—area of usual residence, statistical area level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2011) N(9) String 9 mandatory 1
Person: Country of Birth, Code (SACC 2011) NNNN Number 4 mandatory 1
Person: Date of Birth, DDMMYYYY
Specific Information:

This field must not be null.

National Minimum Data Sets:

For the provision of State and Territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies this field must:

  • be less than or equal to Admission date, Date patient presents or Service contact date
  • be consistent with diagnoses and procedure codes, for records to be grouped.
 Date/Time 8 mandatory 1
Person—Indigenous status, code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Person: Marital Status, Code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)] - - mandatory 1
Person: Sex, Code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Specialised mental health service organisation—organisation identifier, XXXX String 4 mandatory 1
Specialised mental health service organisation—organisation name, text XXX[X(97)] String 100 mandatory 1
Specialised mental health service—ambulatory service unit identifier, XXXXXX String 6 mandatory 1
Specialised mental health service—ambulatory service unit name, text XXX[X(97)] String 100 mandatory 1
Specialised mental health service—target population group, code N String 1 mandatory 1

Comments

Comments:
This NMDS was updated on 10 September 2013 to replace the ICD-10-AM 7th edition principal diagnosis data element with its ICD-10-AM 8th edition equivalent, as agreed to by the Mental Health Information Strategy Standing Committee.

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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