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released: 14 Oct 2004

The National Health Data Dictionary, Version 12, Supplement contains modifications and new items endorsed since Version 12 of the data dictionary was published. Version 12 supplement lists definitions for all the National Minimum Data Sets agreed for mandatory collection and reporting at a national level in Australia's health sector. This version of the Dictionary includes a number of nationally endorsed data definitions for use by clinicians.

Cat. no. HWI 73; 1257pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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National Health Data Dictionary, Version 12, including Version 12 Supplement

Full publication (3.10M PDF)

  • Preliminary material (320K PDF)
    • Title and verso pages
    • Foreword
    • Preface
    • Contents
  • Sections
    • Introduction (325K PDF)
      • The health data standards committee (HDSC)
      • The AIHW knowledgebase-Australia's health, community services and housing Assistance metadata registry
      • The metadata online registry - meteor
      • National health data dictionary
      • Combined version 12 and version 12 supplement
      • International classification of diseases, version 10, Australian modification, 3rd Edition (ICD-10-am)
      • Using national data standards - compliance and consistency
      • Feedback
      • Secretariat contact details
    • National health data dictionary, version 12 including version 12 Supplement
    • National health information model, version 2
      • Background information
      • The model diagram
    • Data elements (330K PDF)
      • Activity when injured
      • Actual place of birth
      • Acute care episode for admitted patients
      • Acute coronary syndrome procedure type
      • Acute coronary syndrome stratum
      • Additional diagnosis
      • Address
      • Address type
      • Administrative expenses
      • Admission
      • Admission date
      • Admission time
      • Admitted patient
      • Address line
      • Admitted patient election status
      • Age-standardised rate
      • Alcohol consumption - concept
      • Alcohol consumption frequency - self report
      • Alcohol consumption in standard drinks per day - self report
      • Anaesthesia administered during labour
      • Analgesia administered during labour
      • Angiotensin converting enzyme (ace) inhibitors therapy status
      • Anticipated patient election status
      • Apgar score at 1 minute
      • Apgar score at 5 minutes
      • Area of usual residence
      • Aspirin therapy status
      • Australian state/territory identifier
      • Behaviour-related risk factor intervention (291K PDF)
      • Behaviour-related risk factor intervention - purpose
      • Beta-blocker therapy status
      • Bleeding episode using TIMI criteria - status
      • Birth order
      • Birth plurality
      • Birthweight
      • Blindness - diabetes complication
      • Blood pressure - concept
      • Blood pressure - diastolic measured
      • Blood pressure - systolic measured
      • Bodily location of main injury
      • Body mass index
      • Body mass index - classification
      • Building/complex sub-unit number
      • Building/complex sub-unit type - abbreviation
      • Building/property name
      • Cancer initial treatment - completion date (468K PDF)
      • Cancer initial treatment - starting date
      • Cancer staging - M stage code
      • Cancer staging - N stage code
      • Cancer staging - T stage code
      • Cancer staging - TNM stage grouping code
      • Cancer treatment type
      • Cancer treatment - target site
      • Capital expenditure
      • Capital expenditure - gross (accrual accounting)
      • Capital expenditure - net (accrual accounting)
      • Cardiovascular medication - current
      • Care type
      • Cataract - history
      • Category reassignment date
      • Census date
      • Centrelink customer reference number
      • Cerebral stroke due to vascular disease - history
      • Cessation of treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs
      • Chest pain pattern category
      • Cholesterol-hdl - measured
      • Cholesterol-ldl - calculated
      • Cholesterol-total - measured
      • Classification of health labour force job
      • Client type - alcohol and other drug treatment services
      • Clinical evidence status
      • Clinical intervention
      • Clinical procedure timing status
      • Clinical review
      • Clinical urgency
      • Clopidogrel therapy status
      • Commencement of treatment episode for alcohol and other Drugs
      • Compensable status
      • Complication of labour and delivery
      • Complications of pregnancy
      • Concurrent clinical condition - on presentation
      • Congenital malformations
      • Congenital malformations - BPA code
      • Contract establishment identifier
      • Contract procedure flag
      • Contract role
      • Contract type
      • Contracted care commencement date
      • Contracted care completion date
      • Contracted hospital care
      • Coronary artery disease - history of intervention or Procedure
      • Country of birth
      • Creatine kinase mb isoenzyme (ck-mb) - measured
      • Creatine kinase mb isoenzyme (ck-mb) - units
      • Creatine kinase mb isoenzyme (ck-mb) - upper limit of normal Range
      • Creatinine serum - measured
      • Crude rate
      • CVD drug therapy - condition
      • Date creatine kinase mb isoenzyme (CK-MB) measured (490K PDF)
      • Date of birth
      • Date of cessation of treatment episode for alcohol and other Drugs
      • Date of change to qualification status
      • Date of commencement of service event
      • Date of commencement of treatment episode for alcohol and Other drugs
      • Date of completion of last previous pregnancy
      • Date of death
      • Date of diagnosis
      • Date of diagnosis of cancer
      • Date of diagnosis of first recurrence
      • Date of first angioplasty balloon inflation or stenting
      • Date of first contact
      • Date of first delivery of service
      • Date of intravenous fibrinolytic therapy
      • Date of last contact
      • Date of procedure
      • Date of referral to rehabilitation
      • Date of surgical treatment for cancer
      • Date of triage
      • Date patient presents
      • Date troponin measured
      • Day program attendances
      • Degree of spread of cancer
      • Department of veterans' affairs file number
      • Department of veterans' affairs patient
      • Dependency in activities of daily living
      • Depreciation
      • Diabetes status
      • Diabetes therapy type
      • Diagnosis
      • Diagnosis onset type
      • Diagnosis related group
      • Division of general practice number
      • Domestic services
      • Drug supplies
      • Dyslipidaemia - treatment
      • Elective care
      • Elective surgery
      • Electrocardiogram (ecg) change - location
      • Electrocardiogram (ecg) change - type
      • Emergency department - public hospital
      • Emergency department arrival mode - transport
      • Emergency department departure status
      • Emergency department waiting time to admission
      • Emergency department waiting time to service delivery
      • Employment status - acute hospital and private psychiatric Hospital admissions
      • Employment status - public psychiatric hospital admissions
      • Episode of admitted patient care
      • Episode of residential care
      • Episode of residential care end
      • Episode of residential care end date
      • Episode of residential care end mode
      • Episode of residential care start
      • Episode of residential care start date
      • Episode of residential care start mode
      • Erectile dysfunction
      • Establishment identifier
      • Establishment number
      • Establishment sector
      • Establishment type
      • Estimated date flag
      • Extended wait patient
      • External cause - admitted patient
      • External cause - human intent
      • External cause - non-admitted patient
      • Family name (330K PDF)
      • Fasting status
      • Fibrinolytic drug used
      • Fibrinolytic therapy status
      • First day of the last menstrual period
      • Floor/level number
      • Floor/level type
      • Food supplies
      • Foot deformity
      • Foot lesion - active
      • Foot ulcer - current
      • Foot ulcer - history
      • Formal community support access status
      • Full-time equivalent staff
      • Functional stress test element
      • Functional stress test ischaemic result
      • Funding source for hospital patient
      • Geographical location of establishment
      • Geographical location of service delivery outlet
      • Gestational age
      • Gestational age
      • Given name(s)
      • Glycoprotein IIB/IIA receptor antagonist status
      • Glycosylated haemoglobin (hba1c) - measured
      • Glycosylated haemoglobin (hba1c) - upper limit of normal Range
      • Goal of care
      • Group sessions
      • Health labour force
      • Health outcome
      • Health outcome indicator
      • Health professionals attended - diabetes mellitus
      • Heart rate
      • Heart rhythm type
      • Height - measured
      • Height - self-reported
      • Hip circumference - measured
      • Histopathological grade
      • Hospital
      • Hospital boarder
      • Hospital census
      • Hospital insurance status
      • Hospital waiting list
      • Hospital-in-the-home care
      • Hours on-call (not worked) by medical practitioner
      • Hours worked by health professional
      • Hours worked by medical practitioner in direct patient care
      • House/property number
      • Hypertension - treatment
      • Hypoglycaemia - severe
      • Indicator procedure (461K PDF)
      • Indigenous status
      • Indirect health care expenditure
      • Individual/group session
      • Infant weight, neonate, stillborn
      • Informal carer availability
      • Initial treatment episode for cancer
      • Initial visit - diabetes mellitus
      • Injecting drug use status
      • Intended length of hospital stay
      • Intended place of birth
      • Intensive care unit
      • Intention of treatment for cancer
      • Inter-hospital contracted patient
      • Interest payments
      • Killip classification code
      • Labour force status
      • Laterality of primary cancer
      • Leave days from residential care
      • Length of non-admitted patient emergency department service Episode
      • Length of stay
      • Length of stay (antenatal)
      • Length of stay (including leave days
      • Length of stay (postnatal)
      • Lipid-lowering therapy status
      • Listing date for care
      • Live birth
      • Living arrangement
      • Lot/section number
      • Lower limb amputation due to vascular disease
      • Main language other than english spoken at home
      • Main occupation of person
      • Main treatment type for alcohol and other drugs
      • Major diagnostic category
      • Marital status
      • Maternal medical conditions
      • Medical and surgical supplies
      • Medicare card number
      • Medicare eligibility status
      • Mental health legal status
      • Method of birth
      • Method of use for principal drug of concern
      • Microalbumin - units
      • Microalbumin - upper limit of normal range
      • Microalbumin/protein - measured
      • Minutes of operating theatre time
      • Mode of admission
      • Mode of separation
      • Morphology of cancer
      • Most valid basis of diagnosis of cancer
      • Mother's original family name
      • Multi-disciplinary team status
      • Myocardial infarction - history
      • Name (365K PDF)
      • Name context flag
      • Name suffix
      • Name title
      • Name type
      • Narrative description of injury event
      • Nature of main injury - non-admitted patient
      • Need for interpreter service
      • Neonatal death
      • Neonatal morbidity
      • Neonate
      • New/repeat status
      • Newborn qualification status
      • Non-admitted patient
      • Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode
      • Non-admitted patient service event
      • Non-admitted patient service event - patient present status
      • Non-admitted patient service event count
      • Non-admitted patient service mode
      • Non-admitted patient service type
      • Non-elective care
      • Non-salary operating costs
      • Number of available beds for admitted patients
      • Number of contacts (psychiatric outpatient clinic/ Day program)
      • Number of days in special/neonatal intensive care
      • Number of days of hospital-in-the-home care
      • Number of leave periods
      • Number of qualified days for newborns
      • Number of service contact dates
      • Number of service contacts within a treatment episode for Alcohol and other drugs
      • Nursing diagnosis
      • Nursing interventions
      • Occasions of service
      • Oestrogen receptor assay status
      • Onset of labour
      • Ophthalmological assessment - outcome
      • Ophthalmoscopy - performed
      • Organ procurement - posthumous
      • Other drug of concern
      • Other recurrent expenditure
      • Other revenues
      • Other treatment type for alcohol and other drugs
      • Outcome of initial treatment
      • Outcome of last previous pregnancy
      • Overdue patient
      • Overnight-stay patient
      • Patient (467K PDF)
      • Patient days
      • Patient listing status
      • Patient presentation at emergency department
      • Patient revenue
      • Patient transport
      • Patients in residence at year end
      • Payments to visiting medical officers
      • Perinatal period
      • Perineal status
      • Period of residence in Australia
      • Peripheral neuropathy - status
      • Peripheral vascular disease in feet - status
      • Person identifier
      • Person identifier type - health care
      • Physical activity sufficiency status
      • Place of occurrence of external cause of injury
      • Postal delivery point identifier
      • Postal delivery service number
      • Postal delivery service type - abbreviation
      • Postcode - Australian
      • Postpartum complication
      • Preferred language
      • Pregnancy - current status
      • Premature cardiovascular disease family history - status
      • Presentation at birth
      • Previous pregnancies
      • Previous specialised treatment
      • Primary site of cancer
      • Principal area of clinical practice
      • Principal diagnosis
      • Principal drug of concern
      • Principal role of health professional
      • Procedure
      • Profession labour force status of health professional
      • Proficiency in spoken English
      • Progesterone receptor assay status
      • Proteinuria - status
      • Quality accreditation/certification standard
      • Radiotherapy treatment type
      • Reason for cessation of treatment episode for alcohol and Other drugs
      • Reason for readmission - acute coronary syndrome
      • Reason for removal from elective surgery waiting list
      • Received radiation dose
      • Recoveries
      • Referral from specialised mental health residential care
      • Referral to further care (psychiatric patients)
      • Referred to ophthalmologist - diabetes mellitus
      • Region code
      • Region of first recurrence
      • Regional lymph nodes examined
      • Regional lymph nodes positive
      • Removal date
      • Renal disease - end-stage, diabetes complication
      • Renal disease therapy
      • Repairs and maintenance
      • Resident
      • Residential mental health service
      • Residential stay
      • Residential stay start date
      • Resuscitation of baby
      • Salaries and wages (566K PDF)
      • Same-day patient
      • Scheduled admission date
      • Separation
      • Separation date
      • Separation time
      • Separations
      • Service contact
      • Service contact date
      • Service delivery outlet
      • Sex
      • Source of referral to alcohol and other drug treatment Service
      • Source of referral to public psychiatric hospital
      • Specialised mental health service
      • Specialised mental health service setting
      • Specialised service indicators
      • Specialist private sector rehabilitation care indicator
      • Staging basis
      • Staging scheme source
      • Staging scheme source edition number
      • State/territory of birth
      • Status of the baby
      • Stillbirth (fetal death)
      • Street name
      • Street suffix code
      • Street type code
      • Suburb/ town/ locality name
      • Superannuation employer contributions (including funding Basis)
      • Surgical specialty
      • Surgical treatment procedure for cancer
      • Systemic therapy agent name
      • Teaching status
      • Telephone number
      • Telephone number type
      • Time creatine kinase mb isoenzyme (ck-mb) measured
      • Time of commencement of service event
      • Time of first angioplasty balloon inflation or stenting
      • Time of intravenous fibrinolytic therapy
      • Time of triage
      • Time patient presents
      • Time troponin measured
      • Tobacco smoking - consumption/quantity (cigarettes)
      • Tobacco smoking - duration (daily smoking)
      • Tobacco smoking - ever daily use
      • Tobacco smoking - frequency
      • Tobacco smoking - product
      • Tobacco smoking - quit age (daily smoking)
      • Tobacco smoking - start age (daily smoking)
      • Tobacco smoking - time since quitting (daily smoking)
      • Tobacco smoking status
      • Tobacco smoking status - diabetes mellitus
      • Total contract patient days
      • Total hours worked by a medical practitioner
      • Total leave days
      • Total psychiatric care days
      • Treatment delivery setting for alcohol and other drugs
      • Treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs
      • Triage category
      • Triglycerides - measured
      • Troponin assay type
      • Troponin assay - upper limit of normal range
      • Troponin measured
      • Tumour size at diagnosis - solid tumours
      • Tumour thickness at diagnosis - melanoma
      • Type and sector of employment establishment
      • Type of accommodation
      • Type of augmentation of labour
      • Type of labour induction
      • Type of non-admitted patient care
      • Type of non-admitted patient care (public psychiatric, alcohol And drug)
      • Type of non-admitted patient care (residential aged care Services)
      • Type of usual accommodation
      • Type of visit to emergency department
      • Urgency of admission (271K PDF)
      • Vascular history
      • Vascular procedures
      • Visual acuity
      • Waist circumference - measured
      • Waist circumference risk indicator - adults
      • Waist-to-hip ratio
      • Waiting list category
      • Waiting time at a census date
      • Waiting time at removal from elective surgery waiting list
      • Weight - measured
      • Weight - self-reported
      • Year insulin started
      • Year of diagnosis of diabetes mellitus
    • National minimum data sets (291K PDF)
      • Admitted patient care NMDS
      • Admitted patient mental health care NMDS
      • Admitted patient palliative care NMDS
      • Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS
      • Community mental health care NMDS
      • Community mental health establishments NMDS
      • Elective surgery waiting times NMDS
      • Health labour force NMDS
      • Injury surveillance NMDS
      • Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS
      • Perinatal NMDS
      • Public hospital establishments NMDS
      • Residential mental health care NMDS
    • Other data set specifications
      • Acute coronary syndrome (clinical) DSS
      • Cancer (clinical) DSS
      • Cardiovascular disease (clinical) DSS
      • Diabetes (clinical) DSS
      • Health care client identification DSS
  • End matter
    • Appendix A: (304K PDF)
    • Appendix B: format for data element definitions ISO/IEC 11179 Based standards
    • Appendix C: data elements and data element concepts included In other national minimum data sets
    • National health data dictionary feedback form

Recommended citation

National Health Data Committee (now HDSC) 2004. National Health Data Dictionary Version 12 with Supplement, CD-ROM. Cat. no. HWI 73. Canberra: AIHW.