CARE SPELL NUMBER IN REPORTING PERIOD

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Notes:
For purposes of the Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMD) collection, a MHMD record will be assembled for each MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL of an adult (including elderly) PATIENT who has received a continuous period of care or assessment from a HEALTH CARE PROVIDER's specialist mental health services within the REPORTING PERIOD.

CARE SPELL NUMBER IN REPORTING PERIOD is the sequence number for the assembled MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL MHMDS record among the set of assembled MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL MHMDS records for the same PATIENT within the REPORTING PERIOD. The CARE SPELL NUMBER IN REPORTING PERIOD for the first assembled record based on earliest MENTAL HEALTH subsequent assembled CARE SPELL in the REPORTING PERIOD will be recorded as 01 with it being incremented by 1 for each subsequent assembled record. For example if there are 3 assembled MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL for the PATIENT within the REPORTING PERIOD then the first would be recorded as 01, the second as 02 and the third as 03.

Use of CARE SPELL NUMBER IN REPORTING PERIOD is an interim measure as not all HEALTH CARE PROVIDER can initiate and maintain MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL and thus create and record unique CARE SPELL IDENTIFIER.

 

This data element is also known by these names:

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plural CARE SPELL NUMBERS IN REPORTING PERIOD