Cancer treatment—outcome of treatment

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METEOR identifier:	289300
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 07/12/2011
Definition:	The outcome of initial treatment describes the response of the tumour at the completion of the initial treatment modalities.

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:	Cancer treatment
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:	Outcome of treatment
Definition:	The outcome for which treatment is provided for a particular condition.
Property group:	Assessment event
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element concept attributes

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Cancer treatment—outcome of treatment Health, Superseded 08/05/2014
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Cancer treatment—outcome of treatment, code N.N Health, Superseded 07/12/2011