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Mental Health Ambulatory Data
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Every request for mental health data will be evaluated separately on its merit by the Data
Custodian. To prevent potential delays it is strongly recommended applicants spend time
discussing their needs with the Data Custodian before submitting an application for data.
See the contacts at: http://www.health.wa.gov.au/healthdata/contact/index.cfm
Please note that all requests for mental health data require DOHWA HREC approval.
Request variables below by checking boxes
Request
Variable
Patient Information
Gender
Indigenous status
Country of birth
Subset Date of Birth
Subset Date of Birth
Age on contact
Marital status
Health service of residency
Occupation
Employment status
Education status
Postcode
Service event data
Primary diagnosis code
Primary diagnosis ICD System
Time of contact
Duration of contact
Stream type
Contact type
Venue of contact
Patient present at contact
Medium of contact
Description
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
MMYYYY
YYYY
At time of admission
At time of admission
Level of education reached at time of admission
Primary diagnosis code for episode as at contact date.
The ICD version used to code Primary Diagnosis
Time of day when contact began
Length of time for service event
Child & Adolescent, Adult, Seniors
Clinical, client related, liaison etc
Clinic, private home, hospital etc
Patient present or not at contact
Face to face, phone, video link
Treatment completed, referred to another service, client
Outcome of episode
did not attend etc. Only available on completed
episodes.
Standard Mental Health Variables (released on all extracts of Mental Health data)
EPSEQ
Episode Sequence Number
Subset Date of contact
MMYYYY
MMYYYY
Subset Episode start date
Start date of episode (also called referral date)
MMYYYY
Subset Episode end date
End date of episode (also called discharge date)
Group of Non Group flag of contact
Indicator of a group of single patient contact
Source of data
FORMS, LAMHIS, PSOLIS
Last updated 17 January 2017
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Sensitive Variables
All of the variables below have been determined as sensitive by the Mental Health Data
Custodian and therefore require written justification. Please provide this in the space in the
table below. All items require DOHWA HREC approval.
Hospital Establishment codes and units of contact are considered identifying information,
especially if they involve private establishments. Provision of these codes requires
DOHWA HREC approval and/or hospital ethics approval. Approval from the Chief
Executive of the area health service may also be required.
Request
Variable
Description
Full date of birth
DDMMYYYY
Enter justification here
Suburb
Suburb of residence
Enter justification here
Unit of contact
Approval from AHS may be required
Enter justification here
Date of contact with Ambulatory service
DDMMYYYY
Full date of contact
Enter justification here
Legal status
Mental health legal status
Enter justification here
Start date of episode (also called referral date)
DDMMYYYY
Full episode start date
Enter justification here
End date of episode (also called discharge date)
DDMMYYYY
Full episode end date
Enter justification here
Comments:
Enter any extra comments here
Last updated 17 January 2017
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