California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Update Date

IDENTIFIERS

DESCRIPTION

Date when a record was added or when any item on a specific file in the region's database was last changed.

LEVELS

Patient

Tumor

Admission

Aliases

LENGTH

8

ALLOWABLE VALUES

Any valid date. (CCYMMDD)

SOURCE

Computer generate current date (date of entry or change)

UPDATE

Generate date when an item is changed so that the date of the most recent change is on the file.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

No

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES