California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III
CCR ID |
NAACCR ID |
E1534 |
1910 |
Underlying cause of death on the death certificate, as assigned and coded by the Department of Health Services on the electronic death certificate master file.
Patients, Admission
4
0000 |
Patient not dead |
7777 |
Death certificate not (yet) available |
7797 |
Death certificate was available but cause of death not coded |
Other |
Cause of death as coded by DHS except, if the 4th digit is X, hyphen (-), or blank, a 9 is substituted |
See CCR Edit IFCOD for additions to ICD-A 9th Rev. codes 0420, 0421, 0422, 0429, 0430, 0431, 0432, 0433, 0439, 0440, 0449 and 7958. |
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1969-78 deaths = ICD-A 8th Rev.
1979-98 deaths = ICD-A 9th Rev.
1999 deaths forward = ICD10
Computer generate a code (0000 if AD_Vital_Status = 1 and 7777 if AD_Vital_Status = 0) until the official cause of death code is provided by the CCR, except accept a non-zero Cause of Death when Hosp_No = 0000000801, 0000000802, 0000000803, 0000000804, 0000999996 or when Other Reg ID <> blank.
Upshift, but do not write the upshift change to Audit Log.
Patient Active Follow-up Fields Update Logic
Yes
IF331 Vital Status, Cause of Death, Date of Last Contact
IF358 Cause of Death-Place of Death, Vital Status
IF377 Cause of Death, Date Last Contact
IF616 Report Source (6 or 7), Cause/Place of Death
3/00 |
Changed from numeric to alphanumeric field. Will begin receiving ICD10 Cause_Death codes with 1999 deaths. |
3/03 |
Extended year range in allowable value note in coding 1979-92 deaths to 1979-98 deaths. Added 4 leading zeroes in hospital numbers listed in Source. Update logic added for Active & Passive Follow-up. Removed List for Review. |
7/06 |
Updated reference in IF 377. |
10/07 |
Changed definition of 7797 in Allowable Values to match NAACCR (was noted for Region 8 cases only). |
2010 |
Data Changes: CCR name (Cause_Death) changed to NAACCR name. Update logic rewritten. |