California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Place of Death--Country

identifiers

OWNER

NAACCR

DESCRIPTION

Code for the country in which the patient died and where certificate of death is filed. If the patient has multiple tumors, all records should contain the same code. This data item became part of the NAACCR transmission record effective with Volume II, Version 13 in order to include country and state for each geographic item and to use interoperable codes. It supplements the item Place of Death--State [NAACCR #1942]. It replaces the use of Place of Death [NAACCR #1940].

leveLS

Patients, Admissions

LENGTH

3

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er1118 Place of Death--Country

See Volume I, Appendix D.1 or Appendix D.2

Leave blank if patient is not dead

SOURCE

1. Left-justify and upshift (but don’t record these changes in the audit log).

2. If Vital Status is 1, and Place of Death—Country is not blank, then set to blank.

3. If Vital Status is 0, then proceed with following conversions:

1. If Coding Procedure is 30 or 31, then

2. If Coding_Proc is less than 30, then

If Place of Death [1940] is 000-999 and can be found in Appendix 32 Country/Country/State Crosswalk, then

Generate Place of Death--Country using the crosswalk table in Appendix 32 Country/Country/State Crosswalk and Place of Death [1940]

Else

Generate ZZU (unknown)

Else

Load without conversion

uPDATE

Patient Active Follow-up Fields Update Logic

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

IF1045 Place of Death--Country, Vital Status

IF1072 Place of Death--Country, Date of Diagnosis

IF1120 Place of Death--Country, State

historical changes