Surgical procedure

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	439584
Registration status:	Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Definition:	Surgery is the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease, injury and deformity by physical operation or manipulation. Surgical procedure refers to the performance of an operation.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Cancer Australia
Reference documents:	Stedman TL 2006. Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th Edition. Maryland: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins page 1877
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	See also Cancer treatment—surgery target site, topography code (ICD-O-3) ANN.N Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—surgical procedure date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer, procedure code (ACHI 7th edn) NNNNN-NN Health, Superseded 02/05/2013
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for prostate cancer, code N Health, Standard 14/05/2015 Prostate cancer (clinical) NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015 Surgical procedure for cancer Health, Standard 04/06/2004