National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: PI 04-Time between positive screen and diagnostic assessment
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | National Bowel Cancer Screening Program interval between positive screen and diagnostic assessment |
Synonymous names: | NBCSP interval between positive screen and diagnostic assessment |
METEOR identifier: | 694168 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 06/09/2018 |
Description: | For those who received a positive National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) screening test (warranting further assessment) in a defined 12-month period, the time interval between the positive screening test and a follow-up diagnostic assessment, measured as median, 90th percentile, and participant diagnostic assessments within certain time cut offs, measured 12 months after the defined period. |
Rationale: | Waiting for a definitive diagnosis following a positive screen can create anxiety. There are various steps, participant decisions, and wait times in the pathway between a positive screen and a diagnostic assessment. Therefore, this indicator should not be considered a hospital wait time indicator. However, after a positive screen further diagnostic evaluation should occur in a timely fashion as there is a defined risk of colorectal cancer in those with a positive screening test—and any harms (such as anxiety) from a positive screen should be minimised. |
Indicator set: | National Bowel Cancer Screening Program performance indicators 2019– Health!, Standard 06/09/2018 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Numerator: | All NBCSP participants who received a positive screen in a defined 12-month period who underwent diagnostic assessment within 12 months of the defined period. For all people who underwent a diagnostic assessment after a positive screen in a 12-month period (as measured 12 months after the period to be reported):
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Disaggregation: | Items will be presented by sex and age group, by:
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Median |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Time (e.g. days, hours) |
Format: | NNN |
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Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: PI 04-Time between positive screen and diagnostic assessment Health!, Superseded 06/09/2018 |