California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Physician--Managing

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID	NAACCR ID
E1666	2460

DESCRIPTION

California license number of the attending (managing) physician at time of this admission for this tumor. Out-of-state physicians' license numbers may be entered here with the first character being an X.

LEVELS

Admissions

LENGTH

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er063 Physician--Managing

First position must be alpha, all others must be numeric except when first character is O, third or fourth character may be alpha; if first character is X the rest of the characters may be any alpha or numeric character.

Cannot be blank.

Use 99999999 if unknown.

SOURCE

Upshift; if transmitted value is X9999999, convert it to 99999999.

UPDATE

Manual

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes, from record with earliest admission date for this tumor.

INTERFIELD EDITS

IF320 Type of Reporting Source, Physician--Managing

HISTORICAL CHANGES

1/1/99	Converted blank PHYS-ATTENDING fields to X9999999; changed allowable values to require a value other than blank.
3/26/03	Allowable value for unknown changed from X9999999 to 99999999. Converted X9999999 Phys_Attending fields to 99999999 (pre-Coding Procedure 21).
7/2008	Modified Allowable values for osteopaths to allow alphanumeric character in third or fourth position.
2010	Data Changes: CCR name (Phys_Attending) changed to NAACCR name.