California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Follow-up Flag

identifiers

OWNER

CCR

DESCRIPTION

The field Follow-up Flag is the only field that has a different requirement status between the New Case Record and Modified Record. The flag documents if the Modified Record contains updates to fields identified to contain follow-up information.

Vendors will be responsible for generating this field using the following guidelines:

• Generate a flag of 1 in the field Follow-up Flag when an update has been made to any of the following fields:

• Date of Last Contact

• Date of Last Contact Flag

• Vital Status

• Date Cancer Status

• Date Cancer Status Flag

• Cancer Status

• Follow-Up Hospital Last

• Follow-Up Last Type (Patient)

• Follow-Up Last Type (Tumor)

• Follow-Up Registry - Next

• Follow-Up Next Type

• Physician--Follow-Up

• Cause of Death

• Place of Death - State

• Date Case Last Changed

• DC State File Number

• Contact Name

• Addr Current--No & Street

• Addr Current--Supplementl

• Addr Current--City

• Addr Current--State

• Addr Current--Postal Code

• Telephone

• Pat No Contact

• Follow-Up Contact--Name

• Follow-Up Contact--No&St

• Follow-Up Contact--Suppl

• Follow-Up Contact--City

• Follow-Up Contact--State

• Follow-Up Contact--Postal

• Place of Death - Country

• Addr Current – Country

• Followup Contact - Country

leveLS

N/A

LENGTH

1

ALLOWABLE VALUES

SOURCE

N/A

uPDATE

N/A

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

No

INTERFIELD EDITS

N/A

INTERRECord EDITS

N/A

historical changes