Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer, procedure code (ACHI 7th edn) NNNNN-NN

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Surgical treatment procedure for cancer
METEOR identifier:	391347
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 07/12/2011
Definition:	The surgical procedure used in the primary treatment of the cancer, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Classification scheme:

Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 7th edition

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

NNNNN-NN

Maximum character length:

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Each surgical treatment procedure used in the initial treatment of the cancer should be recorded. Surgical procedures performed for palliative purposes only should not be included.

For surgical procedures involved in the administration of another modality (e.g. implantation of infusion pump, isolated limb perfusion/infusion, intra-operative radiotherapy) record both the surgery and the other modality.

Any systemic treatment which can be coded as a procedure through ACHI should be so coded (e.g. stem cell or bone marrow infusion).

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

National Cancer Control Initiative

Origin:

National Centre for Classification in Health

New South Wales Department of Health, Public Health Division

Reference documents:

NSW Department of Health NSW Clinical Cancer Data Collection for Outcomes and Quality. Data Dictionary Version 1 (2001).

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Cancer (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 07/12/2011

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* This item is collected for determining outcome by treatment type.