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- 8.3 Summary of unpublished data access options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
- Introduction
- 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