California Cancer Reporting System Standards Volume I: Abstracting and Coding Procedures
Record the method of obtaining follow-up information about the patient for the next report.
If the patient has died, leave the field blank.
Foreign residents may be followed at the reporting facility's discretion, in which case do not use code 8.
Code |
Description |
0 |
Submit a request for the patient's chart to the reporting facility's medical records department |
1 |
Send a follow-up letter to the patient's physician |
2 |
Send a follow-up letter to the person designated as the contact for the patient |
3 |
Contact the patient or designated contact by telephone |
4 |
Request follow-up information from another facility |
5 |
Follow-up by a method not described above |
6 |
Send a follow-up letter to the patient |
7 |
Patient presumed lost, stop printing follow-up letters |
8 |
Foreign resident, follow-up discontinued or not initiated* |
9 |
Do not follow-up (except code 8) |