Alcohol and other Drug Treatment Services

Development of a National Minimum Data Set

Full publication

• Alcohol and other Drug Treatment Services (402KB PDF)

Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material (26K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
• Sections
  1. Introduction (13K PDF)
     1. Aims of the report
  2. Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia (19K PDF)
     1. Background
     2. Treatment settings
     3. Future developments
  3. Existing national alcohol and other drug treatment services data (63K PDF)
     1. The National Hospital Morbidity Database
     2. Survey of clients of treatment service agencies
     3. National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing
     4. National Drug Strategy Household Survey
     5. Health care for alcohol and other drug problems in general practice
     6. Conclusion
  4. Development of a NMDS for alcohol and other drug treatment services (56K PDF)
     1. Initial development of the NMDS
     2. Pilot study
     3. NMDS development during 1999
     4. Profile survey of alcohol and other drug treatment services
  5. Recent NMDS development and future directions (22K PDF)
     1. Data development in 2000
     2. Future directions
• End matter
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix A: Health information management and development (20K PDF)
    • Appendix B: List of organisations for national consultation (8K PDF)
    • Appendix C: NMDS data elements and concepts agreed for collection 2000-01 (134K PDF)
    • Appendix D: Survey of Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services 1999 (41K PDF)
    • Appendix E: New and revised NMDS data elements and data concepts for 1 July 2001 (68K PDF)
  • References (13K PDF)