California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Birthplace

IDENTIFIERS

DESCRIPTION

This data item has been retired and replaced by data items Birthplace--State[252] and Birthplace--Country[254].  This page has been retained for historical purposes only and this data item should not be populated in any cases diagnosed 2013 or later or coded under the NAACCR v13 or later coding standards.

State or country of the patient's birth.

LEVELS

Patients, Admissions

LENGTH

3

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er050 Birthplace

000-999 (The entire range is not used; see Appendix D of Volume I.)

SOURCE

Since this data item has been retired this source logic should no longer be performed.

If the value is completely blank, then convert 999.

If the value includes a non-blank, non-numeric character, then convert 999.

Otherwise, just load the transmitted value, but right-justify and zero fill.

UPDATE

Since this data item has been retired this update logic should no longer be performed.

Patient Level

New Case Consolidation

If Admission level Birthplace <> 999 and Patient level Birthplace = 999, move Admission level Birthplace to Patient level Birthplace.

If Admission level Birthplace = 001-099 and Patient level Birthplace = 000, move Admission level Birthplace to Patient level Birthplace.

Manual Change

If Birthplace changes, through consolidation or manual change, then  NHIA_Derived_Hisp_Origin must be regenerated.

Admission Level

Manual Change Only

List for Review

Admission level Birthplace (000-998) <> Patient level Birthplace (000-998) but excluding Admission level Birthplace = 001-099 and Patient level Birthplace = 000.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

HISTORICAL CHANGES