Reporting Data Item

Business Justification

Definition

Note: Where ‘NHS Wales Data Dictionary’ the definition is as per the Data Dictionary.

Permissible Values

9. RADIOTHERAPY

9.0

ENCDv4.5b (10.8)

NOGCA

Date treatment started (radiotherapy)

To determine the time interval between referral and diagnosis by the specialist team and the start of treatment. Required to be able to the measure survival time from the start of treatment. To enable the date of first definitive treatment to be recorded.

The date on which the radiotherapy first administered.

9.1

ENCDv4.5b (10.6)

NOGCA

Treatment intent (radiotherapy)

To assess patterns of radiotherapy practice for comparisons with best practice guidelines.

The intended outcome of the radiotherapy to be administered.

Permissible values are agreed by the clinical steering groups and conform to the requirements of the reporting output specifications. Currently there is no explicit requirement to map to terminologies or classifications. This will be kept under review.

•      Adjuvant

•      Neoadjuvant

•      Radical (curative)

•      Palliative

9.2

Radiotherapy type

This data item is required to distinguish which type of radiotherapy is administered to a patient.

The type of radiotherapy administered.

Permissible values are agreed by the clinical steering groups and conform to the requirements of the reporting output specifications. Currently there is no explicit requirement to map to terminologies or classifications. This will be kept under review.

•      Teletherapy

•      Brachytherapy

9.4

NOGCA

Prescribed dose

To establish patterns of prescribed radiotherapy doses. Required for submission to the national oesophago-gastric cancer audit.

The prescribed dose of radiotherapy the patient was intended to receive (as decided pre-treatment)

Fractions in numeric units