California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Hosp Pat No

IDENTIFIERS

DESCRIPTION

This number uniquely identifies a patient at the hospital level, whether from a single hospital or a cluster of hospitals. All hospital registries must assign a unique and unchanging hospital Patient number for each patient. This number must be separate from the accession number, and the patient number should be identical for all tumors for that patient. (In the case of multiple tumors, this patient number should be reported for each case.) This number should never be changed or reused, even if the original patient to whom the number is assigned is subsequently deleted. Registry systems that service a cluster of hospitals must use a common Hospital Patient number that is unique within that cluster of hospitals as well as within each participating hospital.

LEVELS

Admissions

LENGTH

12

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er154 Hosp Pat Num (Eureka)

Alpha and/or numeric only. 9s if unknown

SOURCE

If necessary (if the field does not contain 12 digits), right-justify and zero-fill; set to all 9’s if blank.

Note: Eureka is not using the standard NAACCR Patient System ID--Hosp 8 character field for this because of the length.

Hosp Pat No (CCR-ID E1743), which is a 12 character field, exists only so that Eureka can access the field Hosp Pat No and paste its value into the edit buffer in the metafile.

UPDATE

Manual

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes, from the hospital performing the most extensive cancer-directed surgery. If no cancer-directed surgery was performed, then consider Class_Of_Case using the following hierarchy: 1, 2, 0, 3, or higher.

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES