California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III
California Hospital Transmit
Eureka Admission Level
Eureka Tumor Level
ER 1074: Date Conclusive DX Flag must be blank, 10, 11, 12, or 15
The Date Conclusive DX Flag explains why there is no appropriate value in the corresponding date field, Date Conclusive DX Flag.
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:
10 No information whatsoever can be inferred from this exceptional value. (e.g., unknown if the diagnosis was initially based on ambiguous terminology).
11 No proper value is applicable in this context. (e.g., not applicable, initial diagnosis made by unambiguous terminology [Code 0 in data item Ambiguous Terminology DX]).
12 A proper value is applicable but not known (e.g., the initial ambiguous diagnosis was followed by a conclusive term, but the date of the conclusive term is unknown).
15 Information is not available at this time, but it is expected that it will be available later (e.g. accessioned based on ambiguous terminology only [Code 1 in data item Ambiguous Terminology DX].
Blank A valid date value is provided in item Date Conclusive DX, or the date was not expected to have been transmitted.
01/01/2010 Added page in compliance with NAACCR version 12 which became effect this date.
2013 Data Item Changes: Description updated: Reference to 'Date of Conclusive DX' changed to 'Date Conclusive DX' to reflect change in data item name.