California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Followup Contact--Country

identifiers

OWNER

NAACCR

DESCRIPTION

Country code for the address of follow-up contact’s current usual residence. If the patient has multiple tumors, the country of follow-up contact residence should be the same for all tumors. This data item became part of the NAACCR transmission record effective with Volume II, Version 13 in order to include country and state for each geographic item and to use interoperable codes. It supplements the item Follow-up Contact--State [NAACCR #1844].   

leveLS

Patients, Admissions

LENGTH

3

ALLOWABLE VALUES

See Volume I, Appendix D.1

er1117 Followup Contact--Country

SOURCE

1. Left-justify and upshift (but don’t record these changes in the audit log).

2. If Coding Procedure is 30 or 31, then

3. If coding procedure is less than 30, then

If Followup Contact--State can be found in Appendix 31 State/Country Crosswalk, then

Generate Followup Contact--Country using Followup Contact--State's assocated CountryISO code from the Appendix

Else

Generate ZZU (unknown)

uPDATE

Patient Active Follow-up Fields Update Logic

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

IF1043 Followup Contact--Country, Date of Diag

INTERRECord EDITS

N/A

historical changes