Admitted Patient Care National Minimum Data Set: national health data dictionary, version 12
A National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) is a core set of data elements agreed by the National Health Information Management Group for mandatory collection and reporting at a national level. One NMDS may include data elements that are also included in another National Minimum Data Set. A NMDS is contingent upon a national agreement to collect uniform data and to supply it as part of the national collection, but does not preclude agencies and service providers from collecting additional data to meet their own specific needs.The National Health Data Dictionary contains definitions of data elements that are included in NMDS collections in the health sector, including data elements used to derive some of the performance indicators required under Australian Health Care Agreements (bilateral agreements between the Commonwealth and State/Territory governments about funding and delivery of health services).The following pages contain the Admitted patient care NMDS and its associated data elements and data element concepts.
ISSN 1329 4555; ISBN 978 1 74024 296 7; Cat. no. HWI 48; 103pp.; INTERNET ONLY
Admitted Patient Care National Minimum Data Set
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- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Admitted patient care NMDS
- Data elements included
- Activity when injured
- Additional diagnosis
- Admission date
- Admitted patient election status
- Area of usual residence
- Care type
- Country of birth
- Date of birth
- Diagnosis related group
- Establishment identifier
- External cause - admitted patient
- Funding source for hospital patient
- Hospital insurance status
- Indigenous status
- Infant weight, neonate, stillborn
- Intended length of hospital stay
- Inter-hospital contracted patient
- Major diagnostic category
- Medicare eligibility status
- Mental health legal status
- Mode of admission
- Mode of separation
- Number of days of hospital-in-the-home care
- Number of leave periods
- Number of qualified days for newborns
- Person identifier
- Place of occurrence of external cause of injury
- Principal diagnosis
- Procedure
- Separation date
- Sex
- Source of referral to public psychiatric hospital
- Total leave days
- Total psychiatric care days
- Urgency of admission
- Supporting data elements and data element concepts
- Acute care episode for admitted patients
- Admission
- Admitted patient Diagnosis
- Episode of care
- Establishment number
- Establishment sector
- Hospital
- Hospital boarder
- Hospital-in-the-home care
- Live birth
- Neonate
- Newborn qualification status
- Patient
- Region code
- Same-day patient
- Separation
- State/Territory identifier
Recommended citation
AIHW 2003. Admitted Patient Care National Minimum Data Set: national health data dictionary, version 12. National Health Data Dictionary. Cat. no. HWI 48. Canberra: AIHW.