Table of contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- List of recommendations
- 1 Introduction
- Purpose
- Report structure
- Background
- NMDS for Community Mental Health Care
- 2 Data receipt and checking
- 3 Coverage of establishments
- 4 Service contact definitions and coverage
- 5 Summary of 2000-01 data
- NMDS data elements
- Establishment identifier
- Person identifier
- Sex
- Date of birth
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status
- Mental health legal status
- Principal diagnosis
- Service contact date
- Optional data elements for 2000-01
- Area of usual residence
- Country of birth
- Marital status
- Service contact-patient/client present status
- Service contact-group session status
- NMDS data elements
- 6 Implications for use of the database
- Estimation of patient numbers: uniqueness of person identifier
- Principal diagnosis
- Appendix 1: Routine validation process proposed for NCMHCD
- Appendix 2: Establishments reporting data to the NCMHED and NCMHCD
- Appendix 3: Relationship between the NOCC and the Mental Health Care NMDSs
- Appendix 4: Review of individual data elements
- Data Item Name: State identifier
- Data Item Name: Establishment sector
- Data Item Name: Region code
- Data Item Name: Establishment number
- Data Item Name: Person identifier
- Data Item Name: Sex
- Data Item Name: Date of birth
- Data Item Name: Mental health legal status
- Data Item Name: Principal diagnosis
- Data Item Name: Service contact date
- Data Item Name: Indigenous status
- Optional Data Item: Country of birth
- Optional Data Item: Area of usual residence
- Optional Data Item: Marital status
- Optional Data Item: Service contact-group session status
- Optional Data Item: Service contact-patient/client present status
- Appendix 5: Categorisation of principal diagnosis codes
- Glossary
- References