California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Patient ID Number

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1007

20

DESCRIPTION

Unique number automatically assigned by the CCR (Eureka system) to identify each patient.

LEVELS

Patients, Tumors, Admissions

LENGTH

8

ALLOWABLE VALUES

1-99999999

SOURCE

Generated automatically when patient record was migrated or when a new patient record is created.

UPDATE

Patient ID Number may be updated automatically at the tumor level and admission level if two patients are merged or if an admission is unlinked and relinked. No update is possible at the patient level.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

3/03 Field name changed from CENTRAL-PAT-NO to Patient_ID. Updated Description, type, Allowable values (Err #11 deleted), Source and Update to reflect how Eureka handles this data item. This number is assigned to any new patient in the CCR central system (Eureka).
3/04 Clarified Update section.
8/06 Name updated to NAACCR Name (was Patient_ID).