National Health Data Dictionary, Version 12, Supplement 

Full publication (1.28M PDF) 

• Preliminary material (181K PDF)
  • Title and verso pages
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
• Sections
  • Introduction (318K 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
    • 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
  • Summary of changes 
    • National Minimum Data Sets
    • Data set specifications 
    • Data Elements and Data Element Concepts
  • New National Minimum Data Sets
    • Residential mental health care NMDS
  • Existing National Minimum Data Sets 
    • 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
  • New Data set specifications (206K PDF)
    • Acute coronary syndrome (clinical) 
    • Cancer (clinical)
  • Existing Data set specifications
    • Cardiovascular disease (clinical) DSS 
    • Diabetes (clinical) DSS
    • Health care client identification DSS
  • New Data Elements (217K PDF)
    • Acute coronary syndrome procedure type 
    • Acute coronary syndrome stratum
    • Address line 
    • Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors therapy status
    • Aspirin therapy status
    • Beta-blocker therapy status 
    • Bleeding episode using TIMI criteria - status
    • Building/complex sub-unit number
    • Building/complex sub-unit type - abbreviation 
    • Building/property name 
    • Cancer initial treatment - completion date (254K 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
    • Chest pain pattern category
    • Clinical evidence status
    • Clinical procedure timing status
    • Clopidogrel therapy status 
    • Concurrent clinical condition - on presentation 
    • 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
    • Date creatine kinase MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) measured 
    • Date of death
    • Date of diagnosis of first recurrence
    • Date of first angioplasty balloon inflation or stenting
    • Date of intravenous fibrinolytic therapy 
    • Date of surgical treatment for cancer 
    • Date troponin measured 
    • Degree of spread of cancer 
    • Electrocardiogram (ECG) change-location (238K PDF)
    • Electrocardiogram (ECG) change-type 
    • 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 
    • Fibrinolytic drug used
    • Fibrinolytic therapy status
    • Floor/level number 
    • Floor/level type 
    • Functional stress test element
    • Functional stress test ischaemic result 
    • Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonist status 
    • Heart rate
    • Heart rhythm type 
    • Histopathological grade
    • House/property number
    • Initial treatment episode for cancer
    • Intention of treatment for cancer 
    • Killip classification code
    • Leave days from residential care (234K PDF)
    • Lipid-lowering therapy status
    • Lot/section number
    • Most valid basis of diagnosis of cancer
    • Oestrogen receptor assay status
    • Outcome of initial treatment 
    • Postal delivery service number
    • Postal delivery service type - abbreviation
    • Progesterone receptor assay status
    • Radiotherapy treatment type 
    • Reason for readmission-Acute coronary syndrome
    • Received radiation dose 
    • Referral from specialised mental health residential care 
    • Region of first recurrence
    • Regional lymph nodes examined 
    • Regional lymph nodes positive
    • Resident 
    • Residential mental health service 
    • Residential stay
    • Residential stay start date 
    • Specialised mental health service (249K PDF)
    • Specialised mental health service setting 
    • Specialist private sector rehabilitation care indicator
    • Staging basis 
    • Staging scheme source 
    • Staging scheme source edition number 
    • Street name
    • Street suffix code 
    • Street type code 
    • Surgical treatment procedure for cancer 
    • Systemic therapy agent name
    • Time creatine kinase MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) measured
    • Time of first angioplasty balloon inflation or stenting 
    • Time of intravenous fibrinolytic therapy
    • Time troponin measured
    • Troponin assay type 
    • Troponin assay - upper limit of normal range 
    • Troponin measured 
  • Modified data elements (224K PDF)
    • Activity when injured
    • Actual place of birth 
    • Additional diagnosis
    • Address
    • Australian state/territory identifier 
    • Birth plurality 
    • Birthweight 
    • Complication of labour and delivery 
    • Complications of pregnancy
    • Congenital malformations 
    • Country of birth
    • Date of birth (272K PDF)
    • Date of procedure 
    • Diagnosis
    • Diagnosis onset type
    • Episode of admitted patient care 
    • Establishment number 
    • Establishment sector 
    • External cause - admitted patient 
    • Family name 
    • Given name(s) Indicator procedure 
    • Indigenous status 
    • Informal carer availability 
    • Intended place of birth 
    • Inter-hospital contracted patient
    • Labour force status 
    • Main language other than English spoken at home
    • Main occupation of person 
    • Main treatment type for alcohol and other drugs 
    • Marital status 
    • Maternal medical conditions
    • Mental health legal status 
    • Mother's original family name
    • Name context flag (245K PDF)
    • Name suffix
    • Name title
    • Neonatal morbidity
    • Other drug of concern 
    • Other treatment type for alcohol and other drugs 
    • Outcome of last previous pregnancy 
    • Person identifier 
    • Place of occurrence of external cause of injury
    • Postal delivery point identifier 
    • Postcode - Australian
    • Postpartum complication
    • Pregnancy - current status 
    • Presentation at birth 
    • Previous pregnancies
    • Primary site of cancer 
    • Principal diagnosis
    • Principal drug of concern
    • Procedure 
    • Proficiency in spoken English 
    • Reason for cessation of treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs 
    • Sex (207K PDF)
    • Source of referral to alcohol and other drug treatment service
    • Status of the baby 
    • Stillbirth (fetal death)
    • Suburb/town/locality name
    • Telephone number
    • Telephone number type 
    • Treatment delivery setting for alcohol and other drugs 
    • Treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs 
    • Vascular history
    • Waiting list category
• End matter
  • Appendix A: The Health Data Standards Committee membership (242K PDF)
  • Appendix B: Format for data element definitions 
  • Appendix C: Data elements and data element concepts included in National Minimum Data Sets 
  • National Health Data Dictionary Feedback Form

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