California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures for Hospitals
Record the method of obtaining follow-up information about the patient for the next report. If the patient has died, leave the field blank.
The codes are:
Code |
Description |
0 |
Submit a request for the patient's chart to the reporting facility's medical records department |
1 |
Send a follow-up letter to the patient's physician |
2 |
Send a follow-up letter to the person designated as the contact for the patient |
3 |
Contact the patient or designated contact by telephone |
4 |
Request follow-up information from another facility |
5 |
Follow-up by a method not described above |
6 |
Send a follow-up letter to the patient |
7 |
Patient presumed lost, stop printing follow-up letters |
8 |
Foreign resident, follow-up discontinued or not initiated* |
9 |
Do not follow-up (except code 8) |
* Foreign residents may be followed at the hospital's option, in which case do not use code 8.