California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

SSN Suffix

IDENTIFIERS

DESCRIPTION

Suffix for patient's social security number, used to show the relationship of the patient to the bearer of the SSN entered (e.g. spouse). This only became available with Coding_Proc 13.

LEVELS

Patients

Admissions

LENGTH

2

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er025 SSN Suffix

Any upper case alpha character, numeric, ampersand (&), or blank.

SOURCE

Upshift

UPDATE

If PA SSN = AD SSN, then if PA SSN Suffix = blank or 9s and AD SSN Suffix <> blank or 9s, replace

else, if AD SSN Suffix <> blank or 9s, and <> PA SSN Suffix, list for review.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES