Mental health services in Australia 1998-99: National Minimum Data Sets - mental health care

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Mental health series no. 2

Mental Health Services in Australia 1998-99: National Minimum Data Sets - Mental Health Care provides detailed statistics on the characteristics and hospital care of admitted patients with a mental health related diagnosis and/or who were treated in specialised psychiatric services during 1998-99. For the first time data on Australia's community based mental health services are presented. These data, and data on psychiatric hospitals, include the number of services and beds in Australia, and key statistics on staffing and expenditure. The report also outlines data developments for collecting more comprehensive mental health service information.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 27 June 2001; ISSN 1443-6795; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 125 0; AIHW cat. no. HSE 15; 160pp.; OUT OF PRINT


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  • Preliminary material (206K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • List of tables and figures
    • Abbreviations
    • Highlights (separate 112K PDF)
  • Sections
    1. Introduction (189K PDF)
      • Purpose
      • Report structure
      • Background
      • Data sources
    2. Admitted patient characteristics (375K PDF)
      • Overview
      • Principal diagnoses for admitted patients
      • Demographic profile of admitted patients with specialised psychiatric care
    3. Admitted patient care (265K PDF)
    4. Mental health care establishments (221K PDF)
      • Hospitals
      • Community mental health care establishments
    5. Future directions (177K PDF)
      • Admitted patient mental health care
      • Community mental health care
      • Future roles for NMDSs
  • End matter (248K PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Mental health principal diagnoses
      • Appendix 2: AR-DRGs Version 4.0/4.1 in Major Diagnostic Categories 19 and 20
      • Appendix 3: Trimming procedure for length of stay calculations
      • Appendix 4: Population estimates and indirect age-standardisation
      • Appendix 5: The introduction of ICD-10-AM and AR-DRG Version 4
      • Appendix 6: Comparison with National Survey of Mental Health Services data
    • Glossary
    • References

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