Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for prostate cancer, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Surgical procedure for cancer |
METEOR identifier: | 505115 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 14/05/2015 |
Definition: | The prostate cancer-directed surgical procedure performed during the initial course of treatment for cancer, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer |
Value Domain: | Prostate cancer surgical procedure code NN |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Use this codeset to record the surgical procedure used in the treatment of prostate cancer. Where "other" is recorded, please complete Other cancer treatment description. Code 00 (not applicable) applies where no surgery has been completed, and code 99 (not stated/inadequately described) applies when surgery has been completed but the type of surgery is not able to be determined. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The procedure code is collected for all cancer-directed surgery performed during initial treatment for prostate cancer. The initial treatment includes all treatments performed from diagnosis and before disease progression or recurrence. Prostate cancer-directed surgery refers to all surgery that destroys or modifies prostate cancer tissue. Cancer-directed surgery may be palliative (to control symptoms, alleviate pain, or make the patient more comfortable), or curative. The procedure code for each surgical treatment episode should be entered separately. Endocrine surgery for the purpose of modifying hormone levels is recorded with data element Systemic therapy procedure. |
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Collection methods: | This information should be obtained from the patient's medical records. |
Comments: | The collection of specific treatment information is useful to evaluate patterns of care, the effectiveness of different treatment modalities, and treatment by patient outcome. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
Origin: | New South Wales Department of Health, Public Health Division |
Reference documents: | Public Health Division 2001. NSW Clinical Cancer Data Collection for Outcomes and Quality: Data Dictionary, Version 1. Sydney:NSW Health Department American College of Surgeons 2002. Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (FORDS), 2009 revision. Commission on Cancer American College of Surgeons 1998. Standards of the Commission on Cancer: Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS), Volume II. Commission on Cancer |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Cancer treatment—other cancer treatment, text X[X(149)] Health, Standard 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—surgical procedure date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—systemic therapy procedure, code N[N] Health, Standard 08/05/2014 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Prostate cancer (clinical) NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015 |