California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals
For cases diagnosed January 1, 2010 and forward, or following installation of CSv2 software, this data item is used to explain why there is no appropriate value in the corresponding date field. Since only actual known dates are entered in interoperable date items, flags are used to explain the reason the date field is blank. Depending on the registry software being used, these changes may be transparent to the registrar.
The codes are:
Code |
Description |
12 |
Date of Birth cannot be determined |
Blank |
Full or partial date recorded |