Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    • Introduction 
      • 1.1 Why do we need a national collection?
      • 1.2 Brief history of the national collection
      • 1.3 Roles and responsibilities
    • Scope of the AODTS-NMDS
      • 2.1 Which agencies?
      • 2.2 Which clients?
      • 2.3 Which activities?
    • What's new for 2007-08? 
      • 3.1 Treatment episodes reported by all jurisdictions
      • 3.2 Changes to existing data elements-summary
    • The data elements-in brief 
      • 4.1 Establishment-level data elements
      • 4.2 Episode (client-level) data elements
      • 4.3 Supporting items
    • Collection procedures, data quality and validation checks
    • 5.1 Collation of the national data set
    • 5.2 Data transfer
    • 5.3 Data quality
    • 5.4 AIHW validation checks
    • AODTS-NMDS privacy and data principles
      • 6.1 Introduction
      • 6.2 Relevant background material
      • 6.3 Privacy and data principles for the AODTS-NMDS
    • Data release guidelines for the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services NMDS
      • 7.1 Purpose
      • 7.2 Background
      • 7.3 Summary of unpublished data access options
      • 7.4 Requests to AIHW for summarised national data
      • 7.5 Requests to AIHW for access to unit record data in the national database
      • 7.6 AIHW charging policy for ad hoc information services
      • 7.7 Requests to states and territories for summarised or unit record data
      • 7.8 Other alcohol and other drug data
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: IGCD AODTS-NMDS Working Group contact list 
      • Appendix B: Data definition-NHDD extracts
      • Appendix C: Data element changes 
      • Appendix D: Mapping of Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL)
      • Appendix E: Notes on Australian Bureau of Statistics classifications 
      • Appendix F: The Information Privacy Principles in plain English 
      • Appendix G: An overview of the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 
      • Appendix H: Privacy and the AIHW 
    • References
    • List of tables 
    • List of figures