California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III
California Hospital Transmit
Eureka Admission Level
Eureka Tumor Level
Date Conclusive DX [NAACCR #443]
Date Conclusive DX Flag [NAACCR #448]
If Date Conclusive DX is blank, the Date Flag must be = blank, 10, 11, 12, or 15
If Date Conclusive DX is present, the Date Flag must be blank.
The purpose of this inter-field edit is to verify that a date field and the corresponding date flag field are in agreement. A blank flag field indicates that the date was either filled in or intentionally not collected. Otherwise the date flag should include a 2-digit code indicating the reason the date field is blank.
This edit does not require Date Conclusive DX because it was not required by the SEER for cases diagnosed prior to 2007; that is, Date Conclusive DX and its corresponding date flag, Date Conclusive DX Flag, may both be blank, indicating the date was intentionally not collected. However, if either field is populated, they must be in agreement.
If both fields are blank, the edit is skipped.
If Date Conclusive DX is populated,then Date Conclusive DX Flag must be blank.
If Date Conclusive DX is blank and Date Conclusive DX Flag is not blank, then Flag must = 10 (unknown if the diagnosis was initially based on ambiguous terminology), 11 (not applicable, initial diagnosis made by unambiguous terminology), 12 (initial ambiguous diagnosis was followed by a conclusive term, but the date of the conclusive term is unknown), or 15 (accessioned based on ambiguous terminology only).
2010 Data Changes: Created and added this Edit for 2010.
May 2013: Data item name updated from Date of Conclusive DX to Date Conclusive DX