Person with cancer—referral to psychosocial services indicator, yes/no/unknown code N
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Referral to psychosocial services indicator |
| METEOR identifier: | 519990 |
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| Definition: | An indicator of whether a person with cancer has been directed to psychosocial services as part of their cancer treatment or follow-up, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Person with cancer—referral to psychosocial services indicator |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||
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| Guide for use: | Record whether the patient was referred to psychosocial services such as psychological interventions, counselling, spiritual support or domiciliary care. | ||||||
| Comments: | This information is used to evaluate the quality of psychosocial care for patients, and may have implications for access to, and the provision of, services. | ||||||
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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