California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Physician--Primary Surg

IDENTIFIERS

DESCRIPTION

California license number of the surgeon. Out-of-state physicians' license numbers may be entered here with the first character being an X.

LEVELS

Admissions

LENGTH

8

ALLOWABLE VALUES

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.

Exceptions to the alpha first position rule are:

00000000 No surgery and no surgical consultation performed

88888888 Non-surgeon performed procedure

99999999 Unknown physician/license number not assigned

Blank if no information.

SOURCE

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

UPDATE

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.

Exceptions to the alpha first position rule are:

00000000 No surgery and no surgical consultation performed

88888888 Non-surgeon performed procedure

99999999 Unknown physician/license number not assigned

Blank if no information.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes, from the record with the most definitive surgical procedure for this tumor.

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES