Health differentials among adult Australians aged 25-64 years

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• Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS specifications 2008-09: data dictionary, collection guidelines and validation processes (502KB PDF)

Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material
  • Half title and verso pages
  • Title and verso pages
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
• Sections
  1. Introduction
     1. How to use this document
     2. Why do we need a national collection?
     3. Brief history of the national collection
     4. Roles and responsibilities
  2. Scope of the AODTS-NMDS
     1. Which agencies?
     2. Which clients?
     3. Which activities?
  3. What's new for 2008-09?
     1. Changes in 2008-09
  4. AODTS data items
     1. Overview of data items in the NMDS
     2. Establishment-level items
        1. Establishment identifier
           1. Australian State/Territory Identifier (establishment)
           2. Establishment sector
           3. Region code
           4. Establishment number
        2. Geographical location of service delivery outlet
     3. Episode (client)-level data elements
        1. Client type (alcohol and other drug treatment services)
        2. Country of birth
        3. Date of birth
        4. Date of cessation of treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs
        5. Date of commencement of treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs.
        6. Indigenous status
        7. Injecting drug use status
        8. Main treatment type for alcohol and other drugs
        9. Method of use for principal drug of concern
        10. Other drug of concern
        11. Other treatment type for alcohol and other drug.
        12. Person identifier
        13. Preferred language
        14. Principal drug of concern
        15. Reason for cessation of treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs
        16. Sex
        17. Source of referral to alcohol and other drug treatment service
        18. Treatment delivery setting for alcohol and other drugs
     4. A summary of data element changes
  5. Collection procedures, data quality and validation checks
     1. Collation of the national data set
     2. Data transfer
     3. Data quality
     4. AIHW validation checks
     5. 'Attachment A'
  6. AODTS-NMDS privacy and data principles
     1. Introduction
     2. Relevant background material
     3. Privacy and data principles for the AODTS-NMDS
  7. Data release guidelines for the AODTS-NMDS
     1. Purpose
     2. Background
     3. Summary of unpublished data access options
     4. Requests to AIHW for summarised national data
     5. Requests to AIHW for access to unit record data in the national database
     6. AIHW charging policy for ad hoc information services
     7. Requests to states and territories for summarised or unit record data
     8. Other alcohol and other drug data
        • ATTACHMENT 1: Requests for release of AODTS NMDS unpublished state/territory data or access to national database
        • ATTACHMENT 2: Request for ethical clearance for access to AODTS-NMDS database
        • ATTACHMENT 3: Release conditions relating to unit record data explored at meetings of the AODTS-NMDS Working Group
• End matter
  • Appendixes
    1. A history of data elementchanges
    2. Members of the IGCD AODTS-NMDS Working Group
    3. Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC), ABS Cat. No. 1216.0
    4. Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC), ABS Cat. No. 1269.0
    5. Mapping of Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL)
    6. Australian Standard Classification of Drugs of Concern (ASCDC)
    7. The Information Privacy Principles in plain English
    8. An overview of the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000
    9. Privacy and the AIHW
    10. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Data Principles
  • References
  • List of tables
  • List of figures