Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Specialist support services indicator |
Synonymous names: | Specialist support services; Allied health services |
METEOR identifier: | 462083 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 04/02/2015 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether specialist support services have been used during treatment for cancer, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Cancer treatment—specialist support services indicator |
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METEOR identifier: | 462093 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 04/02/2015 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether specialist support services have been used during treatment for cancer. |
Object class: | Cancer treatment |
Property: | Specialist support services indicator |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Yes/no/unknown code N |
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METEOR identifier: | 428208 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Tasmanian Health, Standard 06/12/2023 |
Definition: | A code set representing 'yes', 'no' and 'unknown' responses. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Code | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Yes |
2 | No | |
Supplementary values: | 8 | Unknown |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Record whether the patient used specialist support services as part of their care during a round of treatment for cancer. Specialist support services include community services, allied health services and other hospital support service, such as the use of psychiatrists, psychologists, physiotherapists, social workers, specialist nurses/nurse counsellors, cancer support or volunteer support groups, individual peer support services, counsellor/bereavement counsellor and pastoral care workers. |
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Collection methods: | This information should be sought from the patient's medical record or collected in multi-disciplinary team meetings. |
Comments: | This 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: | Cancer Australia |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Cancer treatment—specialist support services type, code N[N] Health, Standard 04/02/2015 See also Cancer treatment—specialist support services type, text X[X(99)] Health, Standard 04/02/2015 See also Person with cancer—date of referral to palliative care services, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 08/05/2014 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Adolescent and young adult cancer (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 14/05/2015 Adolescent and young adult cancer (clinical) NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015 |