California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Date Ready For Research

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID NAACCR ID

None

None

This data item is not in the exchange record (Volume II, Appendix A). Therefore, it does not have either a CCR ID nor a NAACCR ID.

DESCRIPTION

Date and time that visual editing and linkage/consolidation were completed by the central registry.

LEVELS

Patients, Tumors, Admissions

LENGTH

Date/time

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

Generated in Eureka.

Date ready for research (tumor level):

Date ready for research (patient level):

Date ready for research (admission level):

UPDATE

See Source

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

No

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

2/01/06 Data item created and value generated as described in Source on 10/03/05.
2010 Revised Allowable Values and Source information to match NAACCRv12 date scheme. Unknown values of 1/1/9999 were converted to null.
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.