Person with cancer—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Data Element |
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Short name:![]() | Person with cancer-radiotherapy start date |
Synonymous names:![]() | PER_RADIOTHERAPY_START_DATE |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 555794 |
Registration status:![]() | WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 |
Definition:![]() | The date when a person with cancer begins a course of radiotherapy treatment, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Person with cancer—radiotherapy start date |
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METEOR identifier:![]() | 555792 |
Registration status:![]() | WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 |
Definition:![]() | The date on which a person with cancer commences a course of radiotherapy treatment. |
Object class:![]() | Person with cancer |
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 Commonwealth Department of Health , Standard 14/10/2015 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 |
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 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use:![]() | Radiotherapy start date is used to collect information about service volumes for the purpose of calculating radiotherapy waiting times. It can also be used to examine cancer patient care for safety and quality monitoring and other public health purposes. This is a mandatory data item for national reporting in the: Radiotherapy waiting times DSS 2013-15 Radiotherapy waiting times NMDS 2015- Establishments that are in scope for national reporting are only those health care establishments that provide megavoltage external beam radiotherapy treatment.
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Related metadata references:![]() | See also Cancer treatment—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY Health!, Standard 08/05/2014 See also Patient—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY Health!, Standard 07/12/2011 See also Radiotherapy waiting times DSS 2013-15 Health!, Superseded 13/11/2013 See also Radiotherapy waiting times NMDS 2015-2018 Health!, Superseded 25/01/2018 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:![]() | WA Health Non-Admitted Patient Activity and Wait List Data Collection (NAPAAWL DC) 2013-14 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 WA Health Non-Admitted Patient Activity and Wait List Data Collection (NAPAAWL DC) 2014-15 WA Health, Standard 24/04/2015 |