42119-8
LOINC Code
| LOINC code | 42119-8 | ||||
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| name | |||||
| description | Records the additional dose delivered to that part of the treatment volume encompassed by the boost fields or devices. The unit of measure is centiGray (cGy). To evaluate patterns of radiation oncology care, it is necessary to describe the prescribed boost radiation dose. As in chemotherapy, outcomes are strongly related to the dose delivered... NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary Version 11 | ||||
| status | ACTIVE | ||||
Fully-Specified Name | |||||
| component | Boost radiation dose | ||||
| property | EngCnt = Energy Content | ||||
| time | Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements. | ||||
| system | Dose = Dose med or substance | ||||
| scale | Qn = Quantitative: The result of the test is a numeric value that relates to a continuous numeric scale. Reported either as an integer, a ratio, a real number, or a range. The test result value may optionally contain a relational operator from the set {<=, <, >, >=}. Valid values for a quantitative test are of the form "7", "-7", "7.4", "-7.4", "7.8912", "0.125", "<10", "<10.15", ">12000", 1-10, 1:256 | ||||
| method | |||||
Additional Names | |||||
| short name | Dose med or substance; Energy content; Oncology; Point in time; QNT; Quan; Quant; Quantitative; Random; TUMOR REGISTRY(NAACCR) | ||||
Basic Attributes | |||||
| class | TUMRRGT | ||||
| type | 2 Clinical | ||||
| order vs. observation | Boost radiation | ||||
| example UCUM units | cGY The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) is a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business (www.unitsofmeasure.org) | ||||
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History/Usage | |||||
| first released | |||||
| last updated | 2.3 | ||||
| last change type | MIN - change to field other than name | ||||
| change reason | cGy | ||||
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