Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Cervical screening indicator |
Synonymous names: | HPV test indicator |
METEOR identifier: | 719551 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 16/01/2020 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether a female person has had a cervical screening, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Female—cervical screening indicator |
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METEOR identifier: | 358915 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 25/08/2011 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether a female person has had a cervical screening. |
Object class: | Female |
Property: | Cervical screening indicator |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N |
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METEOR identifier: | 301747 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 21/09/2005 Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 Community Services (retired), Standard 14/02/2006 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 |
Definition: | A code set representing 'yes', 'no' and 'not stated/inadequately described'. |
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: | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | CODE 9 Not stated/inadequately described This code is not for use in primary data collections. |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | From 1 December 2017, the screening test for cervical cancer, the Pap test, changed to a test for the human papillomavirus (HPV) with partial HPV genotyping and reflex liquid-based cytology (LBC) triage. The procedure for collecting samples for HPV testing is the same as for having a Pap smear. A health-care professional will take a small sample of cells from the woman’s cervix. The sample will be sent to a pathology laboratory for examination. While the current Pap test can detect abnormal cell changes, the new cervical screening test will detect the HPV infection that can cause the abnormal cell changes, prior to the development of cancer. The recommended screening age for the HPV test is 25 to 74 years. (Under the previous screening test the age range was 18 to 69 and the data submitted was for the age range 20 to 69). The HPV test will be offered every 5 years (instead of every 2 as it was with the Pap test) (DoH 2017). A vaginal sample can also be taken by a woman, under supervision of her health-care professional (AIHW 2017). |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2017. National Cervical Screening Program data dictionary: Version 1.0. Cancer series no. 103. Cat. no. CAN 102, Canberra. Viewed 18 July 2019, http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=60129559625 DoH (Australian Government Department of Health) 2017. National Cervical Screening Program. DoH, Canberra. Viewed 24 July 2019, http://www.cancerscreening.gov.au/internet/screening/ |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Female—cervical screening indicator, yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N Health!, Superseded 16/01/2020 Indigenous, Superseded 14/07/2021 Has been superseded by Female—cervical screening indicator, yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Indigenous primary health care NBEDS 2020–21 Health!, Retired 13/10/2021 Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 Implementation end date: 30/06/2021 Conditional obligation: Reporting of this data element is conditional on a 'CODE 2 Female' response to 'Person—sex, code X'. This item is collected if the respondent is female and aged 20 to 74 years. DSS specific information: In the Indigenous primary health care NBEDS, this data element will be applied up to 3 times to calculate the number of women who have had a cervical screening within the last 2 years, the last 3 years and the last 5 years. This data element will firstly be used to calculate the number of women who answered 'yes' to having had a cervical screening within the last 5 years. From this data, the data element will be used again but will collect data on the number of women who had a cervical screening within the last 3 years. Finally, the data element will be applied again but will calculate the number of women who had a cervical screening within the last 2 years. |
Implementation in Indicators: |
Used as Numerator
Indigenous primary health care: PI22a-Number of regular clients who have had a cervical screening, June 2020 Health!, Retired 13/10/2021 Indigenous, Superseded 14/07/2021 Indigenous primary health care: PI22b-Proportion of regular clients who have had a cervical screening, June 2020 Health!, Retired 13/10/2021 Indigenous, Superseded 14/07/2021 |