Records the date the patient was discharged following primary site surgery. The date corresponds to the event recorded in Surgical Procedure of Primary Site [1290], and Date of Most Definitive Surgical Resection [3170]. See page 81 for date format. Length of stay is an important quality-of-care and financial measure among hospital administrations, those who fund public and private health care, and public health users. This date, in conjunction with the data item "Date of Most Definitive Surgical Resection" [3170], will allow for the calculation of a patient's length of hospitalization associated with primary site surgery. .. NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary Version 11
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
Date of surgical discharge
property
TmStp = Time Stamp—Date and Time
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
Qn = Quantitative: The result of the test is a numeric value that relates to a continuous numeric scale. Reported either as an integer, a ratio, a real number, or a range. The test result value may optionally contain a relational operator from the set {<=, <, >, >=}. Valid values for a quantitative test are of the form "7", "-7", "7.4", "-7.4", "7.8912", "0.125", "<10", "<10.15", ">12000", 1-10, 1:256
method
Additional Names
short name
CA; Date and time; Date of surg disch; Disch; Misc; Miscellaneous; Oncology; Other; Point in time; QNT; Quan; Quant; Quantitative; Random; Spec; Surg; Time stamp; Timestamp; To be specified in another part of the message; TUMOR REGISTRY(NAACCR); Unspecifi