Medical indemnity national collection (public sector) data guide: data items and definitions 2003-04
released: 4 Aug 2005 author: AIHW
The data guide can also be found as additional material to 'Medical indemnity national data collection, public sector 2003 to 2004'. It is designed to assist all those involved in supplying or analysing Medical Indemnity National Collection (MINC) data. It details the scope and context of the MINC, and then presents the medical indemnity information model and counting rules. The data guide also provides detailed information about every data item in the MINC. Current until 4 August 2006.
Cat. no. AIHW 10174; 70pp.; OUT OF PRINT
Full publication
Publication table of contents
- Preliminary material (95K PDF)
- Half title and verso pages
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Glossary and key definitions
- Sections (258K PDF)
- 1 Introduction to the Medical Indemnity National Collection
- 1.1 Why and how has a Medical Indemnity National Collection (MINC) been developed?
- 1.2 What are the purposes of MINC?
- 1.3 What information will the MINC data provide?
- 1.4 Who contributes to and manages the MINC
- 1.5 What is the Data Guide for and how is it organised
- 1.6 Updating the Data Guide
- 2 Scope and context of the MINC
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Scope: a claims collection
- 2.3 Context
- 2.5 Medical indemnity information model
- 2.6 Units for collection
- 2.7 Collation of national data
- 3 Data items
- 3.1 Data items included within the MINC
- 1 Claim identifier
- 2 Nature of claim - loss to claim subject
- 3 Nature of claim - loss to other party/parties
- 4 Claim subject's year of birth
- 5 Claim subject's sex
- 6 Incident/allegation type
- 7 Clinical service context
- 8 Body function/structure affected - claim subject
- 9 Extent of harm - claim subject
- 10 Date incident occurred
- 11 Where incident occurred
- 12 Health service setting
- 13 Claim subject's status
- 14 Specialties of clinicians closely involved in incident
- 15 Date reserve first placed against claim
- 16 Reserve range
- 17 Date claim commenced
- 18 Date claim finalised
- 19 Mode of claim finalisation
- 20 Total claim size
- 21 Status of claim
- End matter (64K PDF)
Recommended citation
AIHW 2005. Medical indemnity national collection (public sector) data guide: data items and definitions 2003-04. Welfare working paper no. 49. Cat. no. AIHW 10174. Canberra: AIHW.