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released: 16 Aug 2006 author: AIHW

'National Minimum Data Set for Admitted Patient Care: compliance evaluation 2001-02 to 2003-04' presents the AIHWs most comprehensive assessment to date of the quality and consistency of data collected for the Admitted Patient Care data collection. Information is presented on the compliance of the data collected with the definitions in the 'National health data dictionary'. A commentary is included on the trend in data quality over the three-year period. This report is a useful resource for health information managers, researchers, state and territory data suppliers and all users of data based on this National Minimum Data Set.

ISSN 1036-613X; ISBN 978 1 74024 597 5; Cat. no. HSE 44; 130pp.; Out of print

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (163K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Content
    • List of tables
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    1. Introduction (122K PDF)
      • Background
      • This report
      • The NMDS for Admitted Patient Care
      • Admissions, separations and episodes of care
    2. Summary (177K PDF)
      • Coverage of the NMDS data
      • Coverage of hospitals
      • Coverage estimates for private hospital separations
      • Use of national standard definitions, domain values and NMDS scope
      • National summary
      • State and territory summary
    3. Assessment of individual data elements (345K PDF)
      • 3.1 Activity when injured
      • 3.2 Additional diagnosis
      • 3.3 Admission date
      • 3.4 Admitted patient election status
      • 3.5 Area of usual residence
      • 3.6 Care type
      • 3.7 Country of birth
      • 3.8 Date of birth
      • 3.9 Diagnosis Related Group
      • 3.10 Establishment identifier - Establishment number
      • 3.11 Establishment identifier - Establishment sector
      • 3.12 Establishment identifier - Region code
      • 3.13 Establishment identifier - State identifier
      • 3.14 External cause - admitted patient
      • 3.15 Funding source for hospital patient
      • 3.16 Hospital insurance status
      • 3.17 Indigenous status
      • 3.18 Infant weight, neonate, stillborn
      • 3.19 Intended length of hospital stay (348K PDF)
      • 3.20 Inter-hospital contracted patient
      • 3.21 Major Diagnostic Category
      • 3.22 Medicare eligibility status
      • 3.23 Mental health legal status
      • 3.24 Mode of admission
      • 3.25 Mode of separation
      • 3.26 Number of leave periods
      • 3.27 Number of days of hospital-in-the-home care
      • 3.28 Number of qualified days for newborns
      • 3.29 Person identifier
      • 3.30 Place of occurrence of external cause of injury
      • 3.31 Principal diagnosis
      • 3.32 Procedure
      • 3.33 Separation date
      • 3.34 Sex
      • 3.35 Source of referral to public psychiatric hospital
      • 3.36 Total leave days
      • 3.37 Total psychiatric care days
      • 3.38 Urgency of admission
  • End matter (105K PDF)
    • Appendix
    • References

Recommended citation

AIHW 2006. National Minimum Data Set for Admitted Patient Care: compliance evaluation for 2001-02 to 2003-04. Health services series no. 28. Cat. no. HSE 44. Canberra: AIHW.