California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Date First Sent

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1548

None

DESCRIPTION

Date this tumor was first sent to CCR.

LEVELS

Tumors

LENGTH

8

ALLOWABLE VALUES

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

Historical data item captured in original Eureka migration; not uploaded for new cases.

UPDATE

None

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

11/02 In the CCR central system (EUREKA), this data item is no longer generated, but migrated dates are kept for historical purposes. The Allowable values edit (#4) was removed as were instructions for Source and Update
2010 2010 Data Changes:  Revised Allowable Values to match NAACCRv12 date scheme.
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.