California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
This flag is to be set to code 1, 2, or 3 if there is documentation on the medical record or if the cancer registry has been contacted by the patient or the patient’s physician saying that they do not want to be included in research studies. Cases coded to 4 or 5 should not be contacted for research studies.
If there is no information with regard to the patient’s not wanting inclusion in one or more research studies, this flag should remain set to 0.
This flag is not to be set for patients not wanting to be contacted during routine annual follow-up.
The purpose of code 4 is to notify CCR and its regional registries that a case has been shared from another state and that this case cannot be given to researchers without approval of that state registry.
This is a required data item and cannot be blank.
Code |
Description |
0 |
No flag: There no information with regard to the patient not wanting inclusion in one or more research studies. |
1 |
Hospital/Reporting Facility first notified |
2 |
Region first notified - For regional and central registry use. |
3 |
CCR first notified - For regional and central registry use. |
4 |
Out of state case, not for research - is generated by the CCR. |
5 |
VA case, not for research - is generated by the CCR. |