California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals
Enter one of the following codes representing the type(s) of admission at the reporting hospital during the four months after the patient was seen there for the first time.
The codes are:
Code |
Description |
1 |
Inpatient Only |
2 |
Outpatient Only |
3* |
Tumor Board Only |
4* |
Pathology Specimen Only |
5 |
Inpatient and Outpatient |
6 |
Inpatient and Tumor Board |
7 |
Outpatient and Tumor board |
8 |
Inpatient, Outpatient and Tumor Board |
9 |
Unknown (may appear in archival files but is not entered by hospitals) |
*See Section I.1.6 Reporting, Required Method of Reporting Guide