Person—prostate-specific antigen test date, DDMMYYYY
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | PSA test date |
| METEOR identifier: | 481437 |
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| Definition: | The date that a person undergoes a blood test to assess the level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in their blood stream. |
| Context: | PSA level is an indicator for prostate cancer or a number of other benign conditions and is only applicable to males. |
| Data Element Concept: | Person—prostate-specific antigen test date |
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Representational attributes | ||||
| Representation class: | Date | |||
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| Data type: | Date/Time | |||
| Format: | DDMMYYYY | |||
| Maximum character length: | 8 | |||
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Collection and usage attributes | ||||
| Guide for use: | Record the date that a person undergoes a blood test assessing the amount of PSA in their blood stream in the format DDMMYYYY. This should be the date that the blood test is taken, not the date that test results become available. | |||
Source and reference attributes | ||||
| Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia | |||
Relational attributes | ||||
| Related metadata references: | See also Person—prostate-specific antigen level, nanograms per millilitre
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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