Cancer treatment—systemic therapy treatment modification indicator, yes/no/unknown code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Systemic therapy modification indicator
METEOR identifier:	546764
Registration status:	Health, Standard 08/05/2014
Definition:	An indicator of whether there was modification made to a patient's planned systemic therapy treatment for cancer, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Cancer treatment—systemic therapy treatment modification indicator

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
1	Yes
2	No

Supplementary values:

Value	Meaning
8	Unknown

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Record whether there was a modification made to systemic therapy treatment from the initial treatment plan or systemic therapy schedule for a course of cancer treatment. Systemic therapy encompasses chemotherapy, hormone therapy and immunotherapy and modifications include (but are not limited to):

Dose decrease
Drug omission
Drug delivery interval increase
Dose increase
Drug introduction
Drug delivery interval decrease

Treatment modification is often due to a patient's response to treatment or a change in the extent or pathway of the disease.

Collection methods:

Collect from patient medical records.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Cancer Australia

Reference documents:

Cancer Australia Working Group, 2010.

Relational attributes

Implementation in Data Set Specifications: