Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Summary
- Body section
- Introduction
- 1.1 How to use this document
- 1.2 Why do we need a national collection?
- 1.3 Brief history of the national collection
- 1.4 Roles and responsibilities
- Scope of the AODTS-NMDS
- 2.1 Which agencies?
- 2.2 Which clients?
- 2.3 Which activities?
- What's new for 2009-10?
- 3.1 Changes in 2009-10
- AODTS data items
- 4.1 Overview of data items in the NMDS
- 4.2 Key definitions
- 4.3 Establishment-level items
- 4.4 Episode-level items
- 4.5 A summary of data element changes
- 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 Responsibilities and principles
- Data release guidelines for the AODTS-NMDS
- 7.1 Purpose
- 7.2 Background
- 7.3 Options for access to unpublished data
- 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 Requests to states and territories for summarised or unit record data
- 7.7 Requests from the AODTS-NMDS Working Group to explore data at meetings
- 7.8 AIHW charging policy for ad hoc information services
- 7.9 Data access forms
- 7.10 Other alcohol and other drug data
- Introduction
- End matter
- Appendixes
- A history of data element changes
- Members of the IGCD AODTS-NMDS Working Group
- Australian Standard Geographical Classification
- Standard Australian Classification of Countries
- Australian Standard Classification of Languages
- Australian Standard Classification of Drugs of Concern
- Steps for protecting privacy
- Privacy and the AIHW
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Data Principles
- References
- List of tables
- Appendixes