Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 393481 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 |
Definition: | The start date of the radiotherapy administered during the initial course of treatment for cancer. |
Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class: | Cancer treatment |
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Definition: | The course of cancer directed treatment or treatments, with defined dates of commencement and cessation, given to the patient by a treatment provider or team of providers. It includes all treatments administered to the patient before disease progression or recurrence and applies to surgical treatment, radiation therapy and systemic agent therapy for cancer. |
Context: | This metadata item is required to provide the basis for a standard approach to recording and monitoring patterns of initial treatment for cancer patients. |
Specialisation of: | Service/care event |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | Commission on Cancer, Standards of the Commission on Cancer Registry Operations and Data Standards (ROADS) Volume II (1998) Commission on Cancer, Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (2002) |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property: | Radiotherapy start date |
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Definition: | The date on which radiotherapy commenced. Radiotherapy is the treatment of disease by means of ionizing radiation. |
Property group: | Entry into service event |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
Reference documents: | Dorland I, Newman WA 2003. Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary (30th edn). Philadelphia: Saunders p1564 |
Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date Health, Standard 08/05/2014 |
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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 |
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