California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Religion

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1627

None. State Requestor

DESCRIPTION

Patient's religion at time of diagnosis.

LEVELS

Tumors, Admissions

LENGTH

2

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er051 Religion

01-94, 98, 99

For definitions, refer to Calif. Cancer Reporting System Standards, Vol. I, Appendix G.

SOURCE

If the value is completely blank, then convert 99; if the value includes a non-blank, non-numeric character, then convert 99; otherwise, just load the transmitted value, but right-justify and zero fill.

UPDATE

1 If AD_Religion = 02-94 and TU_Religion = 01, 98, or 99, move AD_Religion to TU_Religion.
2 If AD_Religion = 07-69 and TU_Religion = 06, move AD_Religion to TU_Religion.
3 If AD_Religion = 29-33 and TU_Religion = 34, move AD_Religion to TU_Religion.
4 If AD_Religion = 72-74 and TU_Religion = 75, move AD_Religion to TU_Religion.
5 If AD_Religion = 76-88 and TU_Religion = 89, move AD_Religion to TU_Religion.
6 If AD_Religion = 90-92 and TU_Religion = 93, move AD_Religion to TU_Religion.

Leave codes 10-98 as originally reported unless a correction is indicated.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

1/1/98 New coding system adopted. See Appendix 19 for 1998 Religion Code Conversion specifications for tumors, suspense abstracts, and corrections.
10/10/07 Added code 94 for Scientology to Allowable Values and Update logic.
09/08 Removed reference to Appendix 19 in Allowable values section.  Appendix 19 (Religion Code Conversion Specifications) in Volume III was removed in 2005.
2010 Data Changes: NAACCR Version 12 retired this item, but this is still a CCR required data item (retained as a State Requestor Item--moved from NAACCR #260 to #2220).