Person with cancer—date of referral to psychosocial services, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Date of referral to psychosocial services |
METEOR identifier: | 448664 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 08/05/2014 |
Definition: | The date on which a person with cancer is referred to psychosocial services, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
Data Element Concept: | Person with cancer—date of referral to psychosocial services |
Value Domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
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Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Date | |
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Data type: | Date/Time | |
Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
Maximum character length: | 8 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Record the date the patient was first referred to psychosocial services. If the patient is receiving psychosocial care but no referral date can be identified, record the date of the first account of receipt of psychosocial care as the date of referral. Psychosocial services provide emotional and social support for patients and may, for example:
Psychosocial care may be provided by the following individuals, programs or services:
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Collection methods: | This information should be sought from the patient's medical record. |
Comments: | This information is used to evaluate the quality of psychosocial care for patients with cancer, and may have implications for access to, and the provision of, cancer services. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
Reference documents: | National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre and National Cancer Control Initiative 2003. Clinical practice guidelines for the psychosocial care of adults with cancer. Camperdown, NSW: National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre Cancer Institute NSW 2006. NSW clinical cancer registration: minimum data set data dictionary, version 1.9. Sydney: Cancer Institute NSW |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Person with cancer—psychosocial services type, code N[N] Health, Standard 08/05/2014 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Lung cancer (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 14/05/2015 Conditional obligation: Conditional on patient referral to psychosocial services. Lung cancer (clinical) NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015 Conditional obligation: Conditional on patient referral to psychosocial services. |