National best practice guidelines for collecting Indigenous status in health data sets

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Release Date: 08 Apr 2010

AIHW

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2010) National best practice guidelines for collecting Indigenous status in health data sets, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 20 April 2024.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2010). National best practice guidelines for collecting Indigenous status in health data sets. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National best practice guidelines for collecting Indigenous status in health data sets. AIHW, 2010.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National best practice guidelines for collecting Indigenous status in health data sets. Canberra: AIHW; 2010.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2010, National best practice guidelines for collecting Indigenous status in health data sets, AIHW, Canberra.

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All clients of health services should be asked if they are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the process of routine data collection. Despite improvements in recent years, there have been continuing problems in establishing and maintaining standard practice in the collection of Indigenous status, resulting in the under-identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in key national health data sets. These guidelines have been developed to ensure the standard Indigenous status question is asked correctly and consistently of all clients of health services, and that this information is correctly recorded. Limit of 5 copies.

ISBN: 978 1 74024 998 0
Cat. no: IHW 29
Pages: 32

Findings from this report:

The Best Practice Guidelines document the recommended national approach to collect and record Indigenous status
A systematic national approach is needed to ensure the Indigenous status question is asked correctly, consistently
Promote the Guidelines widely to ensure their routine use across various service provision settings and client groups
NIDISC provides support to jurisdictions and service providers to implement the guidelines

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Amendments

23 Aug 2010 - The Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services NMDS was included in the original publication (pg5) in error, as a hospital-based national data collection to which these guidelines apply. While these guidelines may be relevant to data collection practices in alcohol and other drug treatment services, the AODTS NMDS is not a hospital-based data collection.

8 Feb 2011 - Minor text error corrected on page 22 of report.

19 Jun 2012 - Minor change to table on page 10, relating to coding responses to the Indigenous status question. The response where ‘No is ticked and either or both Yes, Aboriginal, and Yes, Torres Strait Islander are ticked’ has been amended to coding category 9: ‘Not stated/inadequately described’.

16 May 2013 - Minor changes are to the AIHW link on p. iii and p6 and removing a footnote on p.5.

National best practice guidelines for collecting Indigenous status in health data sets

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