California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

Eureka Edits

ER1068: Date of Mult Tumors Flag (NAACCR)

Edit Sets:

California Hospital Transmit

Eureka Admission Level

Eureka Tumor Level

 

Field:

Date of Mult Tumors Flag [NAACCR #439]

 

Message:

ER 1068: Date of Mult Tumors Flag must be blank, 11, 12, or 15.

 

Specification:

The Date of Mult Tumors Flag codes indicates why there is no appropriate value in the corresponding date field, RX Date--Chemo.

Note: This is part of the initiative of the transformation from the old NAACCR date standards to interoperable dates. See Flavors of Null table in its entirety which includes the NAACCR codes, HL7 codes and definitions.

Allowable codes:

11     No proper value is applicable in this context (e.g., information on multiple tumors not collected/not applicable for this site).

12     A proper value is applicable but not known. This event occurred, but the date is unknown (e.g., patient was diagnosed with multiple tumors and the date is unknown).

15     Information is not available at this time, but it is expected that it will be available later (e.g., single tumor).

Blank  A valid date value is provided in item Date of Mult Tumors Flag, or the date was not expected to have been transmitted.

 

Historical Changes

01/01/2010 Added page in compliance with NAACCR version 12 which became effect this date.