Technical notes
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
ABDS | Australian Burden of Disease Study |
ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
ACD | Australian Cancer Database |
ACT | Australian Capital Territory |
AIHW | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
ASGS | Australian Statistical Geography Standard |
ASR | age-standardised rate |
DALY | disability-adjusted life year |
ICD | International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems |
ICD-O | International Classification of Diseases for Oncology |
iFOBT | immunochemical faecal occult blood test |
IRSD | Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage |
LOTE | language other than English |
MBS | Medicare benefits schedule |
NBCSP | National Bowel Cancer Screening Program |
NCSR | National Cancer Screening Register |
NMD | National Mortality Database |
NSW | New South Wales |
NT | Northern Territory |
PFUF | Participant follow-up function |
PHCP | primary health-care practitioner (general practitioner or other primary health-care provider) |
PI | performance indicator |
PPV | positive predictive value |
Qld | Queensland |
RDE | raw data extract |
SA | South Australia |
Tas | Tasmania |
TNM | Tumour, Nodes and Metastasis |
Vic | Victoria |
WA | Western Australia |
YLD | years lived with disability |
YLL | years of life lost |
| Symbol | Description |
|---|---|
| — | nil or rounded to zero |
| . . | not applicable |
| > | greater than |
| ≤ | less than or equal to |
| n.a. | not available |
| n.p. | not publishable because of small numbers, confidentiality or other concerns about the quality of the data |
| N | number |
Other technical notes
See Appendices.