California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Eureka Edits

ER150:  Physician--Referring

Edit Sets:

California Hospital Transmit

Eureka Admission Level

Field:

Physician--Referring  [Not a NAACCR field]

Message:

ER 150:  Physician--Referring (value) invalid (see allowable values in Volume III)

Specification:

First position must be alpha, all others must be numeric except when first character is O, fourth character may be alpha; if first character is X the rest of the characters may be any alpha or numeric character.

Exceptions to the alpha first position rule are 00000000 and 99999999.

Blank if no information.

Historical Changes

8/27/03:  Added unknown value of 99999999 to Allowable values.

3/03/04:  Added 00000000 to Allowable values.

2010 Data Item Changes: CCR name (Phys_Ref) changed to be consistent with NAACCR naming for physicians.