Definition
The scope of this data set is admitted patients receiving palliative care in all public and private acute hospitals, and free standing day hospital facilities. Hospitals operated by the Australian Defence Force, correctional authorities and Australia's external territories are not currently included.
Palliative care patients are identified by the data element Hospital service—care type, code N[N].
Scope links with other NMDSs
Episodes of care for admitted patients receiving palliative care in all public and private acute hospitals and free standing day hospital facilities:
- Admitted patient care NMDS.
- Admitted patient mental health care NMDS.
Glossary items
Glossary terms that are relevant to this National minimum data set are included here.
Admission
Hospital boarder
Hospital-in-the-home care
Newborn qualification status
Organ procurement - posthumous
Separation
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.
| Reference | Data Element | Data Type | Length | Inclusion | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Episode of admitted patient care—admission date, DDMMYYYY
Specific Information:
Right justified and zero filled. admission date <= separation date admission date >= date of birth |
Date/Time | 8 | mandatory | 1 | |
| Episode of admitted patient care—admission mode, code N | Number | 1 | mandatory | 1 | |
| Episode of admitted patient care—number of days of hospital-in-the-home care, total {N[NN]} | Number | 3 | mandatory | 1 | |
|
Episode of admitted patient care—separation date, DDMMYYYY
Specific Information:
For the provision of state and territory hospital data to Commonwealth agencies this field must:
|
Date/Time | 8 | mandatory | 1 | |
| Episode of admitted patient care—separation mode, code N | - | - | mandatory | 1 | |
| Episode of care—principal source of funding, hospital code NN | String | 2 | mandatory | 1 | |
| Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN | - | - | mandatory | 1 | |
| Hospital service—care type, code N[N] | Number | 2 | mandatory | 1 | |
|
Patient—previous specialised treatment, code N
Specific Information:
For palliative care, the value of this item is in its use in enabling approximate identification of the number of new palliative care patients receiving specialised treatment. The use of this metadata item in this way would be improved by the reporting of this data by community-based services.
|
Number | 1 | 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:
|
Date/Time | 8 | mandatory | 1 | |
| Person—Indigenous status, code N | Number | 1 | mandatory | 1 | |
| Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)] | - | - | mandatory | 1 | |
| Person: Sex, Code N | Number | 1 | mandatory | 1 |
Comments
Scope links with other NMDSs
Episodes of care for admitted patients receiving palliative care in all public and private acute hospitals and free standing day hospital facilities:
- Admitted patient care NMDS.
- Admitted patient mental health care NMDS.
Glossary items
Glossary terms that are relevant to this National minimum data set are included here.
Admission
Hospital boarder
Hospital-in-the-home care
Newborn qualification status
Organ procurement - posthumous
Separation
References
Related content
| Relation | Count |
|---|---|
| As a numerator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a denominator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a disaggregation in an Indicator | 0 |