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Specialised mental health service—number of service contacts provided to clients by an ambulatory mental health care service, total contacts NNNNNN

Definition

The total number of service contacts provided to individual patients or clients by an ambulatory mental health care service.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Specialised mental health service—number of service contacts provided to clients by an ambulatory mental health care service, total contacts NNNNNN

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Total contacts NNNNNN ".
Data Type Number
Format NNNNNN
Maximum character length 6

Comments

Guide for use:

The total number of mental health service contacts is reported by ambulatory mental health care service units to the Mental Health Establishments NMDS. The total should be a count of contacts at the service unit level, regardless of the registration status of the client.

Each patient or client attending a group contact should be counted individually. For example, ten consumers in a group contact equates to ten contacts.

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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