California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Place Of Death

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1537

1940

DESCRIPTION

This data item has been retired and replaced by data items Place of Death--State[1942] and Place of Death--Country[1944].  This page has been retained for historical purposes only and this data item should not be populated in any cases diagnosed 2013 or later or coded under the NAACCR v13 or later coding standards.

State or country where the patient died.

LEVELS

Patients, Admissions

LENGTH

3

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er123 Place of Death

000-996, and 998, 999 = State or country of death (see Appendix D of Volume I)

997 = Patient is not dead

SOURCE

If 997 and AD_Vital_Status = 0, then enter 999

If the value includes a non-numeric character and Vital_Status = 0, then convert 999

If the value is blank or non-numeric and Vital_Status = 1, then convert 997

Otherwise, just load the transmitted value (if value is non-blank, then right-justify and zero-fill too).

UPDATE

Patient Level

New Case Consolidation

If updated PA-Vital_Status = 0, and PA_Place_Of_Death = 999 or 997 and AD_Place_Of_Death <> (999 or 997),

move AD_Place_Of_Death to PA_Place_Of_Death,

or

PA_Place_Of_Death = 997 and AD_Place_Of_Death = 999 or 997,

enter 999 in PA_Place_Of_Death.

Manual Change

Admission Level

Manual Change Only

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

IF358 Cause of Death-Place of Death, Vital Status

IF616 Report Source (6 or 7), Cause/Place of Death

IF753 Place of Death, DC State File Number

LIST FOR REVIEW

AD_Place_of_Death (000-996, 998,) <> PA_Place_Of_Death (000-996, 998).

HISTORICAL CHANGES

3/26/03 Code for “Not applicable, patient alive” changed from blank to 997 so the CCR is now in alignment with NAACCR. This affected the Allowable values, Update logic, Interfield Edits 1) and 2) and List for Review.
3/3/04 Updated Source text to convert blank, Vital_Status=1 cases to 997.

2013 Data Changes

This data item has been retired and replaced by Place of Death--State[1942] and Place of Death--Country[1944]