Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 288087 |
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| Definition: | The start date of the initial course of non-surgical treatment for cancer. |
Cancer treatment—non-surgical cancer treatment start date
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Cancer treatment |
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| Definition: | The course of cancer directed treatment or treatments, with defined dates of commencement and cessation, given to the patient by a treatment provider or team of providers. It includes all treatments administered to the patient before disease progression or recurrence and applies to surgical treatment, radiation therapy and systemic agent therapy for cancer. |
| Context: | This metadata item is required to provide the basis for a standard approach to recording and monitoring patterns of initial treatment for cancer patients. |
| Specialisation of: | Service/care event |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Origin: | Commission on Cancer, Standards of the Commission on Cancer Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS) Volume II (1998) Commission on Cancer, Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (2002) |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Non-surgical cancer treatment start date |
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| Definition: | The date on which non-surgical treatment for cancer was started. |
| Property group: | Service provision event |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Cancer treatment—non-surgical cancer treatment start date, DDMMYYYY
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