Alternate Name Item # Length Source of Standard Implemented Year Implemented Version Retired Year Retired Version Column #
2560 1000 NPCR 9565 - 10564
Description
Text area for manual documentation of all surgical procedures that provide information for staging.
Rationale
Text documentation is an essential component of a complete electronic report and is heavily utilized for quality control and special studies. Text is needed to justify coded values and to document supplemental information not transmitted within coded values. High-quality text documentation facilitates consolidation of information from multiple reporting sources at the central registry.

The text field must contain a description that has been entered by the reporter independently from the code(s). If software generates text automatically from codes, the text cannot be utilized to check coded values. Information documenting the disease process should be entered manually from the medical record and should not be generated electronically from coded values.

Instructions
Note: For software that allows unlimited text, NAACCR recommends that the software indicate to the reporter the portion of the text that will be transmitted to the central registry.

Suggestions for text:
Data Item(s) to be verified/validated using the text entered in this field
After manual entry of the text field, ensure that the text entered both agrees with the coded values and clearly justifies the selected codes in the following fields:

Item name

Item number

Date of Diagnosis

390

RX Summ--Dx/Stg Proc

1350

Diagnostic Confirmation

490

Primary Site

400

RX Hosp--Dx/Stg Proc

740

RX Summ--Surg Prim Site

1290

Collaborative Stage variables

2800-2930

SEER Summary Stage 1977

760

SEER Summary Stage 2000

759

Reason for No Surgery

1340