California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Eureka Edits

IF739:  Ambiguous Terminology DX, Date of DX

Edit Sets:

California Hospital Transmit

Eureka Admission Level

Eureka Tumor Level

Fields:

Ambiguous Terminology DX  [NAACCR #442]

Date of Diagnosis  [NAACCR #390]

Message:

IF 739: If year of Date of Diagnosis < 2007 then Ambiguous Terminology must be blank.

IF 739:  If year of Date of Diagnosis = 2007 - 2012, then Ambiguous Terminology cannot be blank.

Specification:

If Date of Diagnosis is blank this edit is skipped.

If year of Date of Diagnosis is 2013 or later, then Ambiguous Terminology DX is optional and can be left blank.

If year of Date of Diagnosis is 2007-2012, then Ambiguous Terminology DX cannot be blank.

If year of Date of Diagnosis is less than 2007, then Ambiguous Terminology DX must be blank.

Historical Changes:

In the SEER*Edits software, the title of this edit is IF157.

8/15/06:  New data item for 2007. Adapted from Ambiguous Terminology DX, Date of DX (SEER IF157).

2010 Data Item Changes:  CCR names (Date DX) changed to NAACCR names.

2011 Data Item Changes:  Add "edit skipped" condition to the Specification section.

2013 Data Item Changes:  

• Edit updated to require the field only for cases diagnosed 1/1/2007-12/31/2012.  For cases diagnosed 1/1/2013 and later, the data item is optional.

• Name of edit changed from Ambiguous Terminology DX, Date of Diagnosis to Ambiguous Terminology DX, Date of DX