California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Telephone Owner

Older name was Phone Owner

This is an obsolete data item maintained in Volume III to describe historic data that has been collected for this field, which may be viewed on some Eureka screens. It is no longer listed in the exchange record, Volume II, Appendix A.

DESCRIPTION

Identifies whose phone number is stored in Phone_No (Currently one of the software vendors only transmits the patient's phone number.)

LEVELS

Patients, Admissions

LENGTH

1

ALLOWABLE VALUES

0 Patient
1 Neighbor
2 Relative
3 Employer
4 Friend
7 Other
8 Do not contact
9 No phone

SOURCE

If loaded Telephone is not blank or 9999999999,

Then load 0

Else load 9

UPDATE

If updated PA_Telephone <> 9's and PA_Telephone = 9, enter 0 in PA_Telephone Owner.

Codes 1-8 are entered manually from information obtained during the follow-up process.

CONSOLIDATE DATA EXTRACT

No

INTERFIELD EDITS

None. Historically it Phone Number was compared o Phone Owner but that edit is obsolete and no longer used.

HISTORICAL CHANGES

2010 Date Changes: CCR name (Phone Owner) changed to more closely match the companion data item (Telephone).