Table of contents

  • Preliminary material 
    • Title and verso pages
    • Foreword
    • Preface
    • Contents
  • Sections
    • Introduction 
      • The Health Data Standards Committee (HDSC)
      • The AIHW Knowledgebase- Australia's health, Community Services and Housing Assistance Metadata Registry
      • The Metadata Online Registry - METeOR
      • National Health Data Dictionary
      • Version 12 Supplement
      • International Classification of Diseases, Version 10, Australian Modification, 3rd Edition (ICD-10-AM)
      • Using National Data Standards - Compliance and Consistency
      • Feedback
      • Secretariat contact details
    • Summary of changes
      • National Minimum Data Sets
      • Data set specifications
      • Data Elements and Data Element Concepts
    • New National Minimum Data Sets
      • Residential mental health care NMDS
    • Existing National Minimum Data Sets
      • Admitted patient care NMDS
      • Admitted patient mental health care NMDS
      • Admitted patient palliative care NMDS
      • Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS
      • Community mental health care NMDS
      • Community mental health establishments NMDS
      • Elective surgery waiting times NMDS
      • Health labour force NMDS
      • Injury surveillance NMDS
      • Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS
      • Perinatal NMDS
      • Public hospital establishments NMDS
    • New Data set specifications
      • Acute coronary syndrome (clinical)
      • Cancer (clinical)
    • Existing Data set specifications
      • Cardiovascular disease (clinical) DSS
      • Diabetes (clinical) DSS
      • Health care client identification DSS
    • New Data Elements 
      • Acute coronary syndrome procedure type
      • Acute coronary syndrome stratum
      • Address line
      • Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors therapy status
      • Aspirin therapy status
      • Beta-blocker therapy status
      • Bleeding episode using TIMI criteria - status
      • Building/complex sub-unit number
      • Building/complex sub-unit type - abbreviation
      • Building/property name
      • Cancer initial treatment - completion date 
      • Cancer initial treatment - starting date
      • Cancer staging - M stage code
      • Cancer staging - N stage code
      • Cancer staging - T stage code
      • Cancer staging - TNM stage grouping code
      • Cancer treatment type
      • Cancer treatment - target site
      • Chest pain pattern category
      • Clinical evidence status
      • Clinical procedure timing status
      • Clopidogrel therapy status
      • Concurrent clinical condition - on presentation
      • Creatine kinase MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) - measured
      • Creatine kinase MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) - units
      • Creatine kinase MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) - upper limit of normal range
      • Date creatine kinase MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) measured
      • Date of death
      • Date of diagnosis of first recurrence
      • Date of first angioplasty balloon inflation or stenting
      • Date of intravenous fibrinolytic therapy
      • Date of surgical treatment for cancer
      • Date troponin measured
      • Degree of spread of cancer
      • Electrocardiogram (ECG) change-location 
      • Electrocardiogram (ECG) change-type
      • Episode of residential care
      • Episode of residential care end
      • Episode of residential care end date
      • Episode of residential care end mode
      • Episode of residential care start
      • Episode of residential care start date
      • Episode of residential care start mode
      • Fibrinolytic drug used
      • Fibrinolytic therapy status
      • Floor/level number
      • Floor/level type
      • Functional stress test element
      • Functional stress test ischaemic result
      • Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonist status
      • Heart rate
      • Heart rhythm type
      • Histopathological grade
      • House/property number
      • Initial treatment episode for cancer
      • Intention of treatment for cancer
      • Killip classification code
      • Leave days from residential care 
      • Lipid-lowering therapy status
      • Lot/section number
      • Most valid basis of diagnosis of cancer
      • Oestrogen receptor assay status
      • Outcome of initial treatment
      • Postal delivery service number
      • Postal delivery service type - abbreviation
      • Progesterone receptor assay status
      • Radiotherapy treatment type
      • Reason for readmission-Acute coronary syndrome
      • Received radiation dose
      • Referral from specialised mental health residential care
      • Region of first recurrence
      • Regional lymph nodes examined
      • Regional lymph nodes positive
      • Resident
      • Residential mental health service
      • Residential stay
      • Residential stay start date
      • Specialised mental health service
      • Specialised mental health service setting
      • Specialist private sector rehabilitation care indicator
      • Staging basis
      • Staging scheme source
      • Staging scheme source edition number
      • Street name
      • Street suffix code
      • Street type code
      • Surgical treatment procedure for cancer
      • Systemic therapy agent name
      • Time creatine kinase MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) measured
      • Time of first angioplasty balloon inflation or stenting
      • Time of intravenous fibrinolytic therapy
      • Time troponin measured
      • Troponin assay type
      • Troponin assay - upper limit of normal range
      • Troponin measured
    • Modified data elements
      • Activity when injured
      • Actual place of birth
      • Additional diagnosis
      • Address
      • Australian state/territory identifier
      • Birth plurality
      • Birthweight
      • Complication of labour and delivery
      • Complications of pregnancy
      • Congenital malformations
      • Country of birth
      • Date of birth
      • Date of procedure
      • Diagnosis
      • Diagnosis onset type
      • Episode of admitted patient care
      • Establishment number
      • Establishment sector
      • External cause - admitted patient
      • Family name
      • Given name(s) Indicator procedure
      • Indigenous status
      • Informal carer availability
      • Intended place of birth
      • Inter-hospital contracted patient
      • Labour force status
      • Main language other than English spoken at home
      • Main occupation of person
      • Main treatment type for alcohol and other drugs
      • Marital status
      • Maternal medical conditions
      • Mental health legal status
      • Mother's original family name
      • Name context flag 
      • Name suffix
      • Name title
      • Neonatal morbidity
      • Other drug of concern
      • Other treatment type for alcohol and other drugs
      • Outcome of last previous pregnancy
      • Person identifier
      • Place of occurrence of external cause of injury
      • Postal delivery point identifier
      • Postcode - Australian
      • Postpartum complication
      • Pregnancy - current status
      • Presentation at birth
      • Previous pregnancies
      • Primary site of cancer
      • Principal diagnosis
      • Principal drug of concern
      • Procedure
      • Proficiency in spoken English
      • Reason for cessation of treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs
      • Sex 
      • Source of referral to alcohol and other drug treatment service
      • Status of the baby
      • Stillbirth (fetal death)
      • Suburb/town/locality name
      • Telephone number
      • Telephone number type
      • Treatment delivery setting for alcohol and other drugs
      • Treatment episode for alcohol and other drugs
      • Vascular history
      • Waiting list category
  • End matter
    • Appendix A: The Health Data Standards Committee membership 
    • Appendix B: Format for data element definitions
    • Appendix C: Data elements and data element concepts included in National Minimum Data Sets
    • National Health Data Dictionary Feedback Form