California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Patient No Contact

In the metafile, this is also known as "Patient No Contact Flag"

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1573

None. State Requestor

DESCRIPTION

Flag which indicates that patient does not want to be recruited for research purposes, ever.

LEVELS

Patients, Admissions

LENGTH

1

ALLOWABLE VALUES

 

0 No Flag
1 Hospital First Notified
2 Region First Notified
3 CCR First Notified
4 Out of State Case, Not for Research
5 VA Case

SOURCE

If converted Other Reg ID value is alphabetic or 98, then load 4.

Otherwise, just load the transmitted value.

UPDATE

Patient Active Follow-up Fields Update Logic

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

3/97 New field added to the data set.
1/99 Added the word “First” to each allowable value description.
3/03 Added code 4 to Allowable Values for Out of State cases. Updated Source to load Out of State cases.
2010 Data Changes: Clarified Update logic and changed a 2nd "If" statement to "and" and changed the word "update" to an exact instruction.
2011 Data Changes: Code 5 added to Allowable values for VA Cases. Update logic revised to include code 5 as the overriding value.  Conversion of VA Cases with code 4 should be converted to 5.