California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Hospital Tumor Number CCR

IDENTIFIERS

DESCRIPTION

Sequential number assigned to each tumor entered into a hospital database for the patient. This number should never change, even if other tumor records are added or deleted for the same patient. It will be used by the regional registry to identify corrections, deletions, or follow-up to that particular tumor record and it will be supplied to the hospital by the regional registry in the New Case Reply and Shared Follow-up records for hospital use in apply these records.

LEVELS

Admissions

LENGTH

2

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er009 Tumor Record Number (Hospital)

01-99

SOURCE

Upload with no conversion.

UPDATE

Manual

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes, with each hospital record (or earliest admission while sending one admission per tumor).

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