California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
Enter the code that best characterizes the patient's quality of survival. This item is not required by the CCR.
Reporting facilities may use another coding system or scale adopted by the facility's cancer committee.
Code |
Description |
0 |
Normal activity |
1 |
Symptomatic and ambulatory |
2 |
Ambulatory more than 50%, occasionally needs assistance |
3 |
Ambulatory less than 50%, nursing care needed |
4 |
Bedridden, may require hospitalization |
8 |
Not applicable; dead |
9 |
Unknown/Unspecified |