California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Name--Last

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1637

2230

Owner

CoC

DESCRIPTION

Patient's last name.

LEVELS

Patients, Admissions

LENGTH

40

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er029 Name-Last

May not be blank.

Enter NLN, if no last name.

Enter UNKNOWN, if unknown last name.

Must be alpha, left-justified, and blank-filled. Mixed case, embedded spaces, hyphens, and apostrophes are also allowed. No other special characters are allowed.

Historical note in V3: no SR or JR allowed.

SOURCE

Upshift;if transmitted Name--Last includes two names separated by a hyphen,then create an Alias_Name Last for each separate name, unless they already exist as Name Alias--Last or Name--Maiden.

Otherwise, just upload the transmitted Name--Last value.

Auto-generate NYSIIS name (See Appendix 5) for each name added (don’t record in Audit Log unless Alias_Last_Names are created

UPDATE

Manual

If "Name--Last" changes, then NHIA_Derived_Hisp_Origin must be regenerated.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

IF654 Name--Last, Name--Alias 1-5

LIST FOR REVIEW

AD_Name--Last <> PA_Name--Last

HISTORICAL CHANGES

08/03

Added NLN to Allowable values for cases with no last name. Added text to Source that explains how to process a hyphened name.

01/05

Added Update logic to handle NHIA_Derived_Hisp_Origin regeneration.

2010

Data Changes: Length changed to 40 (was 25). CCR name (Last_Name) changed to NAACCR name.

03/14/11

Data Changes: Allowable values definition changed to COC edit definitions per NAACCR 12.1 notes.

04/2014

Added UNKNOWN to allowable values.