California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Name--Suffix

IDENTIFIERS

DESCRIPTION

A generational title that would follow a name in a letter. It helps to distinguish between patients with the same name. Contains no punctuation.

LEVELS

Patients, Admissions

LENGTH

3

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er078 Name Suffix

Alpha or blank.

SOURCE

Upshift

UPDATE

If AD Name--Suffix = (PA Name--Suffix or blank) do nothing.

If AD Name--Suffix <> blank and PA Name--Suffix = blank, move AD Name--Suffix to PA Name--Suffix.

If none of the above, list for review.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES