Definition:
The date of the day agency staff cease providing substance abuse and or problem gambling treatment services to a client attending and registered in a treatment program at an agency.
Guide for Use:
The guidelines for the appropriate times and reasons for a program termination and an admission discharge are saved in the DATIS guidelines appendix to this Data Dictionary (tables 1, 2 and 3). It is best practice to discharge an inactive admission then re-admit the client when further service is required. Programs and admissions flagged as inactive in the database [no service is reported for the client according to the flags set by the agency in the database] are listed in a DATIS report. Before an admission can be discharged all programs must be terminated [database business rule].
The Program End Date must be equal to or greater than the Admission and Program Start Date; and less than or equal to the Discharge Date. Day must be equal to or greater than 1 and equal to or less than 31 dependent on the month. Month must be equal to or greater than 1 and equal to or less than 12.
Date Range Format:
Day (DD), Month (MM) and Year (YYYY) are collected in separate fields and formatted DDMMYYYY.
For example - 06112012 - is the 6th day of the month of November in the year 2012.
Context:
Is used in conjunction with the data elements Program Start Date, Program Start Time and Program End Time to determine the length of stay/service of clients in a program and provides an indication of the intensity of service provision. It is also used to identify the number of clients receiving service in a program during a reporting period.
