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Welfare working paper no. 47
These guidelines have been prepared as a reference for those involved in collecting and supplying the data for the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set (AODTS-NMDS). It should be particularly useful to staff in Australian Government, state and territory departments, and alcohol and other drug treatment agency staff directly involved in the collection and reporting of the data set. Current until 6 April 2006.
Authored by AIHW.
Published 6 April 2005 ; AIHW cat. no. HSE 36; OUT OF PRINT
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Publication table of contents
Preliminary material
Title and verso pages
Contents
List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Body section
Introduction
1.1 Why do we need a national collection?
1.2 Brief history of the national collection
1.3 Roles and responsibilities
Scope of the AODTS-NMDS
2.1 Which agencies?
2.2 Which clients?
2.3 Which activities?
What's new for 2005-06?
3.1 Treatment episodes reported by all jurisdictions
3.2 Changes to existing data elements-summary
The data elements-in brief
4.1 Establishment-level data elements
4.2 Episode (client-level) data elements
4.3 Supporting data element concepts
Collection procedures and data quality
5.1 Collation of the national data set
5.2 Data transfer
5.3 Data quality
AIHW validation
6.1 AIHW validation checks
Privacy and confidentiality of data
7.1 Privacy-an introduction
7.2 Privacy and the AIHW
Data release guidelines for the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services NMDS
8.1 Purpose
8.2 Background
8.3 Summary of unpublished data access options
8.4 Requests to AIHW for summarised national data
8.5 Requests to AIHW for access to unit record data in the national database
8.6 AIHW charging policy for ad hoc information services
8.7 Requests to states and territories for summarised or unit record data
8.8 Other alcohol and other drug data
End matter
References
Appendixes
Appendix A: IGCD AODTS-NMDS Working Group contact list
Appendix B: Data definition - NHDD extracts
Appendix C: Data element changes
Appendix D: Notes on Australian Bureau of Statistics classifications
Appendix E: Extracts and information about the Privacy Act 1998