The number of people who returned a positive NBCSP screening test that had a diagnostic assessment and were diagnosed with screen-detected cancer in a defined 12-month period or the following 12 months.
Definition
The percentage of people who returned a positive National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) screening test that underwent a diagnostic assessment and were diagnosed with cancer, measured 12 months after the defined period.
Indicator Summary
The number of people who underwent diagnostic assessment to follow up a positive screening test in the defined 12-month period and had available diagnostic information.
No computation details
Items will be presented by sex and age group, by:
- State and territory
- Socioeconomic status
- Remoteness area
- Indigenous status
- Main language spoken at home
- Disability status
- Disease screening invitation round
- Diagnostic assessment type
- Election status
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication.
Calculation rules
The number of people who returned a positive NBCSP screening test that had a diagnostic assessment and were diagnosed with screen-detected cancer in a defined 12-month period or the following 12 months.
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- Data Element
- Patient—diagnosis date of cancer, DDMMYYYY
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- Data Element
- Patient—cancer diagnostic assessment date, DDMMYYYY
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- Data Element
- Person—person identifier, X[X(19)]
The number of people who underwent diagnostic assessment to follow up a positive screening test in the defined 12-month period and had available diagnostic information.
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- Data Element
- Patient—diagnosis date of cancer, DDMMYYYY
Items will be presented by sex and age group, by:
- State and territory
- Socioeconomic status
- Remoteness area
- Indigenous status
- Main language spoken at home
- Disability status
- Disease screening invitation round
- Diagnostic assessment type
- Election status
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication.
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- Data Element
- Patient—diagnosis date of cancer, DDMMYYYY
References
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