California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

NYSSIS Name

IDENTIFIERS

DESCRIPTION

New York State Identification and Intelligence System (NYSIIS) is a phonetic code of patient's last name for use in matching records with similar names in order to identify all records on file for a given patient. Their system has been modified by the CCR to change some matches and to extend the code from 6 characters to 8 characters. (See Attachment #5.)

LEVELS

Patients, Aliases

LENGTH

8

ALLOWABLE VALUES

Any combination of alphas, possibly with trailing blanks.

SOURCE

Computer generate using Last_Name, ALIAS‑NAME or Maiden_Name as appropriate (see Appendix #5).

UPDATE

Regenerate when Last_Name, Maiden_Name or ALIAS-NAME is changed manually

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

No

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES