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AIHW - Mental Health Services - Overnight Admitted Mental Health Separations (PHN) 2015-2016

Created 04/05/2025

Updated 04/05/2025

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This dataset presents the footprint of the number and rate of overnight admitted mental health-related separations and bed days, with and without specialised psychiatric care by patient location. Overnight admitted patient separations refers to those separations when a patient undergoes a hospital’s formal admission process, completes an episode of care, is in hospital for more than one day and ‘separates’ from the hospital. The data spans the financial year of 2015-2016 and is aggregated to 2017 Department of Health Primary Health Network (PHN) areas, based on the 2016 Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). The data is sourced from the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) which is a compilation of episode-level records from admitted patient morbidity data collections in Australian hospitals. It includes demographic, administrative and length of stay data for each hospital separation. Clinical information such as diagnoses, procedures undergone and external causes of injury and poisoning are also recorded. Mental health services in Australia (MHSA) provides a picture of the national response of the health and welfare service system to the mental health care needs of Australians. MHSA is updated progressively throughout each year as data becomes available. The data accompanies the Mental Health Services - In Brief 2018 Web Report. For further information about this dataset, visit the data source:Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Mental health services in Australia Data Tables. Please note:

AURIN has spatially enabled the original data using the Department of Health - PHN Areas.

Rates are directly age-standardised.

The analysis of bed days presented in this table excludes those separations with a length of stay greater than 365 days.

Separations with a care type of Newborn (without qualified days), and records for Hospital boarders and Posthumous organ procurement have been excluded.

It is possible for patients to have multiple separations in any given reference period.

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Title AIHW - Mental Health Services - Overnight Admitted Mental Health Separations (PHN) 2015-2016
Language English
Licence CC-BY-3.0-AU
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/59218c37-150b-473d-a8eb-9c015b440f1f
Remote Last Updated 06/03/2025
Contact Point
Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
test@email.loc
Reference Period 06/03/2025
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network "AIHW - Mental Health Services - Overnight Admitted Mental Health Separations (PHN) 2015-2016". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.aurin.org.au/dataset/au-govt-aihw-aihw-mental-hlth-serv-overnight-separations-phn-2015-16-phn2017