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DAYS OF SUPERVISED DISCHARGE is an optional data element in the Mental Health Minimum Data Set collection record and should only be present if one or more Supervised Discharge Episode within the Adult Mental Health Care Spell have occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD.

It is the total number of supervised aftercare days within the Adult Mental Health Care Spell within the REPORTING PERIOD. Each period of supervised aftercare days is recorded by a Supervised Discharge Episode and there may be more than one such episode during the course of an Adult Mental Health Care Spell.

There is a Start Date and End Date for each Supervised Discharge Episode and the calculation is based upon those supervised aftercare days which have occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD adjusted for where periods of supervised aftercare days overlap the REPORTING PERIOD START DATE and/or REPORTING PERIOD END DATE (this includes where the period of supervised aftercare days has not yet ended). Where such overlaps occur the REPORTING PERIOD START DATE and/or REPORTING PERIOD END DATE should be used instead of that of the Supervised Discharge Episode.

DAYS OF SUPERVISED DISCHARGE is the sum of the calculated periods of supervised aftercare days and should be recorded left justified with leading zeros.

 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	DAYS OF SUPERVISED DISCHARGE