21872-7

LOINC Code


LOINC code21872-7
name
descriptionFor a hospital registry, divides cases into two groups: analytic cases are those included in reports on patient treatment and outcomes; nonanalytic cases are those not included in such reports. Class of Case codes 0-2 identify cases that are analytic (i.e., cases that were first diagnosed and/or received all or part of their first course of treatment or had treatment planned at the reporting hospital). Class of Case codes 3-5, 7, 8, and 9 identify cases that are considered nonanalytic (i.e., were first diagnosed and received all of their first course of treatment at a facility other than the reporting institution, or were diagnosed at autopsy or by death certificate only). Class of Case 6 identifies cases that were first diagnosed and received their entire first course of treatment in the same staff physician's office. These cases were considered analytic for diagnosis dates January 1, 1998, through December 31, 1999. For diagnosis dates on or after January 1, 2000, these cases are considered nonanalytic. Class of Case can be used in conjunction with Type of Reporting Source [500]. Type of Reporting Source is designed to document the source of documents used to abstract the cancer being reported... NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary Version 11
statusACTIVE

Fully-Specified Name

componentRelationship between this hospital and cancer Dx
propertyType  =  Type:  The Property Type is used for assays that identify the specific analyte in cases when the baseline presence of the analyte is known.
timeEpisode
systemCancer.XXX
scaleNom  =  Nominal:  Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody.
method

Additional Names

short nameCA; Diagnosis; Hosp; Misc; Miscellaneous; Nominal; Oncology; Other; Rel between hosp and cancer Dx; Spec; To be specified in another part of the message; TUMOR REGISTRY(NAACCR); Typ; Unspecified

Basic Attributes

classTUMRRGT
type2  Clinical
order vs. observationRel between hos

Member of these Panels

60503-0
46443-8

History/Usage

first released
last updated2.32
last change typeMIN  - change to field other than name

Related Names



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