Date Case Initiated

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID	NAACCR ID
E1480	2085

DESCRIPTION

This is the date that the hospital registrar began the process of case identification and abstraction at the hospital registry. This field is used by the hospital to identify the data a case was first added to the hospital database. It represents the date that casefinding or initial data entry was done, not the date the case was completed. It should not change once it has been generated.

LEVELS

Admissions

LENGTH

8

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er259 Date Case Initiated

A valid, complete date in YYYYMMDD.

General Date Editing Rules:

Date fields are recorded in the D1 date format of year, month, day (CCYYMMDD). Month and day must have leading zeros for values 01...09.

The following date format is allowed:

CCYYMMDD Century+Year, Month and Day are provided.

Dates are checked first to ensure they conform to one of these formats, then for errors in the components. Checking stops on the first non-valid situation.

Range checking:

Lowest allowed value:  January 1, 1850 (or in D1 format: 18500101)

Highest allowed value: current system date

The month is checked to ensure it falls within range 01...12.

The day is checked to ensure it falls within range for that specific month. Accommodation is made for leap years.

SOURCE

If the record version is NAACCR version 12 (120 in original new case) or later, then upload the date with no conversion.

Otherwise, if the record version is earlier than 12, then perform the following conversions in this order:

1. Right-justify and zero-fill the date to 8 digits.

2. Convert MMDDYYYY to YYYYMMDD.

Do not record changes in the audit log.

UPDATE

None: auto-generated when case was originally started.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes, record with earliest admission date for this tumor.

INTERFIELD EDITS

IF1142: EOD--LN Involv, Date DX, Date Case Initiated (CCR)

HISTORICAL CHANGES

3/03/04	Added Err# 259 to the Allowable Values edit.
1/19/05	Zeros are added to the Allowable Values.
2010	2010 Data Changes:  This is a new field from NAACCR starting with 2010 and NAACCR v12. However, it actually replaces California Requestor Item Date First Enter. Updated Allowable Values and Source with new date format spec.  Update logic corrected to reflect auto generation (was manual).
7/8/2011	General Date Editing Rules and Range Checking updated for additional clarity. However, the intent of the date rules remain the same as the 2010 update.