21942-8
LOINC Code
| LOINC code | 21942-8 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | |||||
| description | Identifies the surgical procedure(s) performed in an effort to diagnose and/or stage disease. COC recommends this item for tumors diagnosed 1996 and forward. For tumors diagnosed before 1996, this item may have been converted, and tumors with surgery would have been converted to 09 in this field. See also RX Summ--Surg Prim Site [1290] and RX Summ--Reconstruct 1st [1330]. For SEER and pre-1996 COC, see RX Summ--Surgery Type [1640]... NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary Version 11 | ||||
| status | ACTIVE | ||||
Fully-Specified Name | |||||
| component | Non cancer directed surgery summary | ||||
| property | Type = Type: The Property Type is used for assays that identify the specific analyte in cases when the baseline presence of the analyte is known. | ||||
| time | Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements. | ||||
| system | Cancer.XXX | ||||
| scale | Nom = 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 name | CA; Misc; Miscellaneous; Nominal; Non CDS summary; Oncology; Other; Point in time; Random; Spec; Surg; To be specified in another part of the message; TUMOR REGISTRY(NAACCR); Typ; Unspecified | ||||
Basic Attributes | |||||
| class | TUMRRGT | ||||
| type | 2 Clinical | ||||
| order vs. observation | Non CDS summary | ||||
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History/Usage | |||||
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| last updated | 2.29 | ||||
| last change type | MIN - change to field other than name | ||||
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