California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III
CCR ID |
NAACCR ID |
E1668 |
2470 |
California license of the physician who will be seeing the patient after discharge from the hospital and who could be contacted for follow-up information.
Out-of-state physicians' license numbers may be entered here with the first character being an X.
Hospital-specific codes may be used for out-of-state physicians.
Patients and Admissions
8
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.
Use 99999999 if unknown.
Blank if no information.
Upshift; if transmitted value is X9999999, convert it to 99999999.
Patient Active Follow-up Fields Update Logic
Yes, from Patient's file.
None
| 3/26/03 | Allowable
value for unknown changed from X9999999 to 99999999.
Converted X9999999 Phys_FU fields to 99999999 (pre-Coding Procedure 21). Added unknown value to Update 1) so a known Phys_FU will over-ride an unknown. |
| 3/05/07 | Software vendor item # corrected. |
| 6/01/07 | Software vendor item # corrected. |
| 7/2008 | Modified Allowable values for osteopaths to allow alphanumeric character in third or fourth position. |
| 2010 | Data Changes: CCR name (Phys_FU) changed to NAACCR name. Rewrote update logic. |