AIHW logo

METEOR logo

Our sites
AIHW GEN Aged Care Data Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health Performance Framework
Indigenous Mental Health and
Suicide Prevention Clearinghouse
Australian Mesothelioma Registry Housing data Regional Insights for Indigenous Communities
Contact FAQs

Site Navigation

  • Find metadata
    • Find metadata
    • Getting started
    • Data set specifications
    • Indicator sets
    • Data quality statements
    • Data dictionary archives
  • Metadata management
    • Metadata management
    • Data standards
    • Registration authorities
    • Registration statuses
  • How to use METEOR
    • How to use METEOR
    • First steps
    • Using My Page
    • Downloading and printing
    • FAQs
    • About METEOR
  • Learn about metadata
    • Learn about metadata
    • Metadata explained
    • How to create metadata
    • Metadata development resources
Your session is about to end!
Your session will expire at [TIME]
Select Extend at the top right corner or you will be logged out

Health service event—first service contact date, DDMMYYYY

Data Element Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termFirst health service contact date
METEOR identifier:Help on this term447930
Registration status:Help on this term

Health, Standard 07/12/2011

Definition:Help on this termThe date on which first contact is made between a health care provider and one or more persons for assessment, care, consultation and/or treatment, expressed as DDMMYYYY.
Data Element Concept:Help on this termHealth service event—first service contact date
Value Domain:Help on this termDate DDMMYYYY

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

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element attributes Help on this term

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
See also Health service event—service request received date, DDMMYYYY

        Health, Standard 07/12/2011

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +
Lung cancer (clinical) DSS

        Health, Superseded 14/05/2015

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

Use this data element to record the date a patient presents for the first time to a lung or cancer specialist.

This consultation may occur prior to diagnosis so the specialist is involved in the diagnostic process or after the diagnosis of lung cancer has been made so the specialist is involved in the treatment of cancer.

A lung or cancer specialist is defined as a consultant in any of the following specialties: respiratory medicine, cardio-thoracic surgery, clinical oncology, medical oncology and radiation oncology.

Lung cancer (clinical) NBPDS

        Health, Standard 14/05/2015

DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information:

Use this data element to record the date a patient presents for the first time to a lung or cancer specialist.

This consultation may occur prior to diagnosis so the specialist is involved in the diagnostic process or after the diagnosis of lung cancer has been made so the specialist is involved in the treatment of cancer.

A lung or cancer specialist is defined as a consultant in any of the following specialties: respiratory medicine, cardio-thoracic surgery, clinical oncology, medical oncology and radiation oncology.


Radiotherapy waiting times DSS 2012-13

        Health, Superseded 13/11/2013

DSS specific attributes +
Implementation start date: 01/07/2012
Implementation end date: 30/06/2013
Conditional obligation: Every record must contain either this item or Patient—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY.
DSS specific information:

This is the date of the patient's first ever consultation at a particular establishment with a radiation oncologist. Subsequent consultations the patient has at the same establishment (with the same or different radiation oncologist or for the same or a new diagnosis) are not within scope of the RWT DSS.


<Title>

<body>
<footer>

View

  • Show more
  • Print view

Download

  • Word
  • PDF
  • Advanced options

Review

  • Compare items
Help
Downloading

The download may take a while, please wait.

Do not refresh the screen until the download is complete.

Terms & Conditions
Do you agree with the Terms and Conditions?

<Title>

<body>
<footer>
Loading...

Navigation

  • Find metadata
  • Metadata management
  • How to use METEOR
  • Learn about metadata

Resources

  • Accessibility
  • Copyright
  • Disclaimer
  • Freedom of Information
  • Privacy policy
  • Vulnerability and disclosure policy

Quick Links

  • Contact
  • FAQs
  • Search
AIHW logo
© Australian Insitute of Health and Welfware, 2023