Person with cancer—date of initial primary health care consultation, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Date of initial primary health care consultation |
Synonymous names: | Date of initial general practitioner consultation |
METEOR identifier: | 456975 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 04/02/2015 |
Definition: | The date on which the person with cancer had a consultation with a general practitioner or primary health care practitioner where the instance of cancer was first suspected or a cancer related symptom was first noted, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
Data Element Concept: | Person with cancer—date of initial primary health care consultation |
Value Domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Date | |
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Data type: | Date/Time | |
Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
Maximum character length: | 8 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Record the date the person with cancer had a consultation with a general practitioner or primary health care practitioner where the instance of cancer was first suspected or a cancer related symptom was first noted. Where multiple consultations have occurred, record the earliest date. |
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Collection methods: | This information should be sought from the patient's medical record. |
Comments: | This information is used to evaluate the quality of care for patients with cancer, and may have implications for access to, and the provision of, cancer services. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Patient—diagnosis date of cancer, DDMMYYYY Health!, Standard 07/12/2011 See also Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Commonwealth Department of Health , Standard 14/10/2015 Community Services (retired), Standard 25/08/2005 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Health!, Standard 04/05/2005 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Housing assistance, Standard 20/06/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 30/04/2024 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 See also Person—date of death, DDMMYYYY Community Services (retired), Standard 30/09/2005 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Health!, Superseded 05/10/2016 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Adolescent and young adult cancer (clinical) DSS Health!, Superseded 14/05/2015 Adolescent and young adult cancer (clinical) NBPDS Health!, Standard 14/05/2015 |