California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Follow-Up Next Type

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1584

None. State Requestor

DESCRIPTION

Method to be used the next time the patient is due for follow-up as reported by the hospital with the most recent follow-up date (date entered in Date of Last Contact).

LEVELS

Patients, Admissions

LENGTH

1

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er130 FU Next Type (Eureka)

0 Hospital chart
1 Letter to physician
2 Letter to designated contact
3 Phone patient or designated contact
4 Contact another hospital
5 Other
6 Send followup letter to the patient
7 Not to be followed - patient presumed lost
8 Not to be followed - foreign resident
9 Not to be followed - other reasons
Blank Indeterminate or patient dead.

SOURCE

If the transmitted value is numeric, then just load it with no conversion. Otherwise, convert it to blank.

UPDATE

Patient Active Follow-up Fields Update Logic

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

No

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

2010

Data Changes:  In Update area, data item name for Date of Last Pat FU changed to Date of Last Contact.

2011

Changed name from FU Next Type to Follow-Up Next Type.