Patient—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Radiotherapy start date |
| METEOR identifier: | 448147 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 07/12/2011 |
| Definition: | The date on which a patient commences a course of radiotherapy treatment, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
| Data Element Concept: | Patient—radiotherapy start date |
| Value Domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Date | |
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| Data type: | Date/Time | |
| Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
| Maximum character length: | 8 | |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| 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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Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | See also Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 See also Person with cancer—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY WA Health, Standard 01/06/2017 See also Person with cancer—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | |
| Implementation in Indicators: | National Healthcare Agreement PIa: Proportion of emergency radiotherapy treatment started within the emergency timeframe Health, Qualified 12/01/2016 National Healthcare Agreement PIb: Waiting times for non-emergency radiotherapy Health, Qualified 12/01/2016 |