California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Path Date Spec Collect 1-5

This topic covers the following Data Items:

Records the date and time of the specimen collection for the cancer being reported, not the date read nor date the report was typed.

Date the specimen associated with a path report was collected from the patient, or the most distinguished report date for other document types.

Admissions

5 x 14 fields

A valid, complete date and time in YYYYMMDDhhmmss format.

A valid, complete date (YYYYMMDD) followed by six spaces.

A valid year & month (YYYYMM) followed by eight spaces (unknown day and unknown time).

A valid year (YYYY) followed by ten spaces (unknown month, day, and time).

Blank (no known or partially known date segments or time).

(For each of the five fields)

If the new case's record version is NAACCR version 12.0 or later, then load the value as is.

If the new case record version is an earlier version than 12.0, then perform the following data conversions upon upload in this order:

Do not record these types of reformatting changes it in the audit log.

Manual Change or Correction Applied

CONSOLIDATEDDATA EXTRACT

Yes

10/10/07	New data items added to help identify path reports used in abstracting, to facilitate automatic new case abstract/pathology report matching at the regional/central registry, and to expand the space available in the path text field. Starting in 2008, visual editors will be reviewing path reports along side the submitted cases, so it is important to identify all the reports used by the abstractor.
2010	2010 Data Changes: CCR names (DxRx Report Date1-5) changed to NAACCR names because this is now a NAACCR required field. Description updated and length changed from 8 to 14. Allowable Values and Source sections changed to allow for a 14 character date rather than the previous 8 character date. Consolidated Data Extract changed to yes.