Person—asbestos exposure indicator, yes/no/unknown code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Asbestos exposure indicator |
METEOR identifier: | 428199 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 08/05/2014 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether a person is known to have been exposed to asbestos, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Person—asbestos exposure indicator |
Value Domain: | Yes/no/unknown code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Code | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Yes |
2 | No | |
Supplementary values: | 8 | Unknown |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Record whether a person has had known exposure to asbestos whether primary or secondary, occupational or domestic. Primary exposure relates to direct exposure to asbestos, and secondary exposure relates to indirect contact to asbestos (for example the spouse or children of someone who worked with asbestos). |
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Collection methods: | This information should be sought from the patient's medical record. |
Comments: | Asbestos inhalation is implicated in serious respiratory diseases such as asbestosis and pleural fibrosis. Asbestos exposure may increase the risk of lung cancer or mesothelioma and is an important risk factor for survival. It is collected for analysis of survival adjusted by stage at diagnosis and distribution of cancer cases by type and stage. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
Reference documents: | Cancer Council Victoria 2010. Victorian Consensus Data Set: Lung Cancer Data Dictionary. Version 1.0. Melbourne: Cancer Council Victoria Tim Driscoll et al. 2004. Occupational carcinogens: assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels. (Environmental Burden of Disease Series, No. 6). Geneva: World Health Organisation Stedman TL 2006. Stedman's Medical Dictionary. 28th edition. Maryland: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Fauci AS et al (Editors) 2008. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th edition, New York: McGraw-Hill Medical |
Relational attributes | |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Lung cancer (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 14/05/2015 Lung cancer (clinical) NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015 |
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