California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Tobacco Use Smokeless

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1279

9967

OWNER

NPCR

DESCRIPTION

Records the patient’s past or current use of tobacco.

LEVELS

Tumors, Admissions

LENGTH

1

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er147 Tobacco Use Smokeless

0

Never used

1

Current user

2

Former user, quit within one year of the date of diagnosis

3

Former user, quit more than one year prior to the date of diagnosis

4

Former user, unknown when quit

9

Unknown/not stated, no smoking specifics provided

Blank

A blank is only allowed for cases diagnosed prior to 2011

SOURCE

If the value is completely blank, then convert 9; if the value includes a non-blank, non-numeric character, then convert 9; otherwise, just load the transmitted value.

UPDATE

Tumor Level

New Case Consolidation

If Tumor.Value is blank and Admission.Value is not blank, then copy Admission.Value to Tumor.Value.

If Tumor.Value is not blank and Admission.Value is blank, then do nothing.

If Tumor.Value is equal to Admission.Value, then do nothing.

If Tumor.Value is not blank and Admission.Value is not blank, and Tumor.Value does not equal Admission.Value, thenlist for review.

Manual Change

Admission Level

Manual Change

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

n/a

INTERFIELD EDITS

IF938 NPCR-CER Tobacco Use Smokeless, Date of DX

HISTORICAL CHANGES

2011 Data Item Changes, CER Project

Added for CER requirements.

05/2013

This data item is now required by NPCR for Date of Diagnosis 2013 and forward. We are still required to submit the values as part of the CER dataset.

12/2013

Allowable values revised per NPCR. Required for Date of Diagnosis 2011 and forward for all Regions. Global fix performed to change blanks to 9 for Date of Diagnosis 2011 forward.