Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer, procedure code (ACHI 9th edn) NNNNN-NN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Surgical procedure for cancer |
| METEOR identifier: | 603484 |
| Registration status: |
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| Definition: | The cancer-directed surgical procedure performed during the course of treatment for cancer, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer |
Value domain attributes | |
Representational attributes | |
| Classification scheme: | Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) 9th edition |
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| Representation class: | Code |
| Data type: | String |
| Format: | NNNNN-NN |
| Maximum character length: | 8 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | The procedure code is collected for all cancer-directed surgery performed during treatment for cancer. Cancer-directed surgery refers to all surgery that destroys or modifies cancer tissue anywhere in the body. Cancer-directed surgery may be palliative (to control symptoms, alleviate pain, or make the patient more comfortable), or curative. Biopsies that remove the entire tumour and/or leave only microscopic margins are to be recorded here. 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 Cancer treatment—systemic therapy procedure, code N[N]. |
| Collection methods: | This information should be obtained from the patient's medical record. |
| 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: | National Centre for Classification in Health 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: | Supersedes Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer, procedure code (ACHI 8th edn) NNNNN-NN
See also Cancer treatment—surgery target site, topography code (ICD-O-3) ANN.N
See also Cancer treatment—surgical procedure date, DDMMYYYY
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Health, Standard 14/05/2015 |