Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Sections
- 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 2007-08?
- 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 items
- Collection procedures, data quality and validation checks
- 5.1 Collation of the national data set
- 5.2 Data transfer
- 5.3 Data quality
- 5.4 AIHW validation checks
- AODTS-NMDS privacy and data principles
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Relevant background material
- 6.3 Privacy and data principles for the AODTS-NMDS
- Data release guidelines for the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services NMDS
- 7.1 Purpose
- 7.2 Background
- 7.3 Summary of unpublished data access options
- 7.4 Requests to AIHW for summarised national data
- 7.5 Requests to AIHW for access to unit record data in the national database
- 7.6 AIHW charging policy for ad hoc information services
- 7.7 Requests to states and territories for summarised or unit record data
- 7.8 Other alcohol and other drug data
- Introduction
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: IGCD AODTS-NMDS Working Group contact list
- Appendix B: Data definition-NHDD extracts
- Appendix C: Data element changes
- Appendix D: Mapping of Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL)
- Appendix E: Notes on Australian Bureau of Statistics classifications
- Appendix F: The Information Privacy Principles in plain English
- Appendix G: An overview of the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000
- Appendix H: Privacy and the AIHW
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Appendixes