California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Physician--Referring

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID	NAACCR ID
E1578	None. State Requestor

DESCRIPTION

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

LEVELS

Admissions

LENGTH

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er150 Physician--Referring

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 referral

99999999 Unknown physician/license number not assigned

Blank if no information.

SOURCE

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

UPDATE

Manual

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

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

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

Unknown	Removed note in Source that put an X in the first character field was 9s.
8/27/03	Added unknown value of 99999999 to Allowable values.
3/03/04	Added 00000000 to Allowable values.
7/2008	Modified Allowable values for osteopaths to allow alphanumeric character in third or fourth position.
2010	Data Changes: CCR name (Phys_Ref) changed to be consistent with NAACCR naming for physicians.