Definition
The Community mental health care national minimum data set (CMHC NMDS) includes data about Mental health 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.
The scope covers all ambulatory mental health care service units that deliver clinical care and are administered or funded by state and territory governments.
The scope of the collection includes ambulatory clinical mental health care provided by service units covering all target populations and includes general adult, child & adolescent, youth, older persons and forensic community mental health service units.
The scope excludes ambulatory equivalent same day separations.
The scope excludes support services that are not specialised mental health care services (see Specialised mental health service) and services provided by non-government organisations.
The following metadata items are of particular relevance to the scope of the CMHC NMDS:
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.
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Comments
Glossary items
Glossary terms that are relevant to this National minimum data set are included here.
Admitted patient mental health care service
Ambulatory care
Ambulatory mental health care service
Geographic indicator
Resident
Residential mental health care service
Separation
References
Related content
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| As a numerator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a denominator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a disaggregation in an Indicator | 0 |