Patient—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Radiotherapy start date |
| METEOR identifier: | 448147 |
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| Definition: | The date on which a patient commences a course of radiotherapy treatment, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
| Data Element Concept: | Patient—radiotherapy start date |
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| Representation class: | Date | ||||||||||||
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| Data type: | Date/Time | ||||||||||||
| Format: | DDMMYYYY | ||||||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 8 | ||||||||||||
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| Guide for use: | This item should be used when collecting information about service volumes for the purpose of calculating radiotherapy waiting times. If collecting radiotherapy start date to examine cancer patient care for safety and quality monitoring and other public health purposes use Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY. | ||||||||||||
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| Related metadata references: | See also Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY
See also Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY
See also Person with cancer—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY
See also Person with cancer—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY
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