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Person with cancer—date of referral to palliative care services, DDMMYYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termDate of referral to palliative care services
Synonymous names:Help on this termSupportive care; Symptomatic care
METEOR identifier:Help on this term447391
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 08/05/2014
Definition:Help on this termThe date on which a person with cancer was referred to palliative care services, expressed as DDMMYYYY.
Data Element Concept:Person with cancer—date of referral to palliative care services

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termDate
Data type:Help on this termDate/Time
Format:Help on this termDDMMYYYY
Maximum character length:Help on this term8

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

Record the date on which a person with cancer was referred to palliative care services.

Referral to palliative care will generally come from a person with cancer's primary treatment clinician or GP.

If the patient is receiving palliative care but no referral date can be identified, record the date of the first account of receipt of palliative care as the date of referral.

Referral to palliative care services is referral to palliative care administered by palliative care specialists such as a palliative care team or palliative physician. Palliative care may be administered in a community setting, for example, the patient's home or a nursing home, in the palliative care unit of an acute hospital, or a hospice.

The date of referral must be:

  • greater than or equal to the date of diagnosis;
  • greater than the date of birth; and
  • less than or equal to the date of death.
Collection methods:Help on this termThis information should be sought from the patient's medical record.
Comments:Help on this termThis information is used to evaluate the quality of care for patients with cancer, and may have implications for access to, and the provision of, cancer services.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termCancer Australia
Reference documents:Help on this term

National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC) and National Cancer Control Initiative (NCCI) 2003. Clinical practice guidelines for the psychosocial care of adults with cancer. Camperdown, NSW: National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre & National Cancer Control Initiative

Cancer Institute NSW 2006. NSW clinical cancer registration: minimum data set data dictionary, Version 1.9. Everleigh: Cancer Institute NSW

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
See also Cancer treatment—specialist support services date, DDMMYYYY
  • Health, Standard 14/05/2015
See also Cancer treatment—specialist support services indicator, yes/no/unknown code N
  • Health, Standard 04/02/2015
See also Person with cancer—referral to palliative care services indicator, yes/no/unknown code N
  • Health, Standard 08/05/2014
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Adolescent and young adult cancer (clinical) DSSHealth, Superseded 14/05/2015

DSS specific attributes +

Conditional obligation:

Complete if Person with cancer—referral to palliative care services indicator, yes/no/unknown code N equals 'yes'.

Adolescent and young adult cancer (clinical) NBPDSHealth, Standard 14/05/2015

DSS specific attributes +

Conditional obligation:

Complete if Person with cancer—referral to palliative care services indicator, yes/no/unknown code N equals 'yes'.


Lung cancer (clinical) DSSHealth, Superseded 14/05/2015

DSS specific attributes +

Conditional obligation:

Conditional on patient referral to palliative care services.

Lung cancer (clinical) NBPDSHealth, Standard 14/05/2015

DSS specific attributes +

Conditional obligation:

Conditional on patient referral to palliative care services.


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