21976-6
LOINC Code
| LOINC code | 21976-6 | |
|---|---|---|
| name | ||
| description | Records the presence or absence of clinical evidence of the patient's malignant or non-malignant tumor as of the Date of Last Contact [1750]. If the patient has multiple primaries, the values may be different for each primary. Hospitals use this field to compute survival analysis (disease-free intervals). By maintaining this data item, central registries can assist hospital registries by sharing this information with other hospital registries that serve the same patients, if the state's privacy laws so permit... NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary Version 11 | |
| status | ACTIVE | |
Fully-Specified Name | ||
| component | Cancer outcome status | |
| 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; Oncology; Other; Point in time; Random; Spec; To be specified in another part of the message; TUMOR REGISTRY(NAACCR); Typ; Unspecified | |
Basic Attributes | ||
| class | TUMRRGT | |
| type | 2 Clinical | |
| order vs. observation | Cancer outcome | |
History/Usage | ||
| first released | ||
| last updated | 2.29 | |
| last change type | MIN - change to field other than name | |
Related Names | ||
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