Key changes since version 3.0

This updated version of the User Guide includes new data-items, re-alignment of data structure, amendments and contains corrections, for example where there were errors in previous versions and updates where clinical practice has changed from SACT data set v3.0 and should be used to help data collection.

Throughout the data set there are now a series of choices which will make collecting and reporting data easier to understand and will be supported by the new technical document.

In addition, there are some key new sections to link potentially orphaned data items throughout the data set.

The proposed changes can be divided into five key areas:

• deleted data items
• new data items
• data items with amended attributes
• moved data items
• schema specification changes

Note:

• in some cases, the same data item is used in different sections of the data set, in these circumstances they are only counted once

The following are the major changes to SACT v4.0:

In v4.0, there are an additional 16 data items overall, compared with v3.0 and of them, 4 are compulsory due to the change in the way date and consultant codes are now recorded. In addition, most of the other increases were to ensure that ‘Regimen’, ‘Cycle’ and ‘Dose Modification’ as well as ‘Cycle Delay’ were correctly structured and recordable.