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Course of radiotherapy treatment

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
METEOR identifier:Help on this term448151
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Definition:Help on this term

A series of one or more radiotherapy treatments prescribed by a radiation oncologist.

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:Help on this term

A course of radiotherapy treatment should have an associated ready-for-care date and, when treatment starts, a radiotherapy start date.

A patient can receive more than one course of radiotherapy treatment at the same time (i.e. courses which are simultaneous or which overlap). These courses may have the same or different ready-for-care dates and the same or different radiotherapy start dates.

Only a radiation oncologist can prescribe a course of radiotherapy treatment. A prescription is not equal to a course of radiotherapy treatment. A prescription may be for one or more courses of radiotherapy treatment. A prescription outlines the anatomical region/sites to be treated and is for a prescribed dose at a defined volume (fractionation) over a defined period of time.

One course of radiotherapy treatment may cover multiple phases and multiple treatment plans.

The completion of a course of radiotherapy treatment is not relevant to the definition of a course of radiotherapy treatment.

Relational attributes

Metadata items which use this glossary item:Help on this term
Patient—radiotherapy start date
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 08/08/2018
  • Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Patient—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 08/08/2018
  • Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Radiotherapy
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 08/08/2018
  • Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Radiotherapy waiting times DSS 2012-13
  • Health, Superseded 13/11/2013
Radiotherapy waiting times DSS 2013-15
  • Health, Superseded 13/11/2013
Radiotherapy waiting times NMDS 2015-2018
  • Health, Superseded 25/01/2018
Radiotherapy waiting times NMDS 2018-
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 08/08/2018
  • Health, Standard 25/01/2018
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