Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Radiotherapy start date—cancer treatment |
METEOR identifier: | 561469 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 08/05/2014 |
Definition: | The start date of the radiotherapy administered during the course of treatment for cancer, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date |
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METEOR identifier: | 561467 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 08/05/2014 |
Definition: | The start date of the radiotherapy administered during the course of treatment for cancer. |
Object class: | Cancer treatment |
Property: | Radiotherapy start date |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
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METEOR identifier: | 270566 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 WA Health, Standard 06/03/2014 Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 31/08/2016 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 09/08/2023 Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | The day of a particular month and year. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Date | |
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Data type: | Date/Time | |
Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
Maximum character length: | 8 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Record the first or earliest date radiotherapy commenced for all courses of radiotherapy administered during the course of treatment. The patient may receive more than one course of radiotherapy during the course of treatment. For example, in the treatment of cancer, radiotherapy may be administered to the primary site and the site of a distant metastasis. Record the start date for each course of treatment. The start date of radiotherapy is recorded regardless of whether the course of treatment is completed as intended, and regardless of the intent or timing of treatment. Record the start date for radiotherapy administered as external beam radiotherapy or brachytherapy. Do not include radiotherapy with unsealed radioisotopes. This item should be used when collecting information about cancer patient care for safety and quality monitoring and other public health purposes. If collecting radiotherapy start date to examine service volumes for the purpose of calculating radiotherapy waiting times use Patient—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY. |
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Collection methods: | The radiotherapy commencement date(s) will typically be found in the radiation oncologist's summary letter for the course of treatment or in the radiotherapy treatment summary in the patient's medical record. |
Comments: | Collecting the start and finish dates for treatment modalities will enable an estimate of treatment duration. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
Origin: | 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: | Supersedes Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—brachytherapy dose rate, code N Health, Standard 04/02/2015 See also Cancer treatment—radiation dose administered, total Gray N[NN.NN] Health, Standard 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—radiotherapy completion date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—radiotherapy fractions administered, total fractions N[N] Health, Standard 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—radiotherapy target site, code N[N] Health, Standard 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—radiotherapy treatment type, code N[N] Health, Standard 08/05/2014 See also Patient—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 07/12/2011 See also Person with cancer—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 See also Person with cancer—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY WA Health, Standard 01/06/2017 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Radiotherapy for cancer cluster Health, Standard 08/05/2014 |