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Person with cancer—referral to psychosocial services indicator, yes/no/unknown code N

Definition

An indicator of whether a person with cancer has been directed to psychosocial services as part of their cancer treatment or follow-up, as represented by a code.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Person with cancer—referral to psychosocial services indicator, yes/no/unknown code N

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Yes/no/unknown code N ".
Data Type Number
Format N
Maximum character length 1
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values 1 Yes
2 No
Supplementary Values 8 Unknown

Comments

Guide for use:

Record whether the patient was referred to psychosocial services such as psychological interventions, counselling, spiritual support or domiciliary care.

Comments:
This information is used to evaluate the quality of psychosocial care for patients, and may have implications for access to, and the provision of, services.

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 1
Inclusion in Data Distributions 0
As a numerator in an Indicator 0
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0