Alternate Name Item # Length Source of Standard Implemented Year Implemented Version Retired Year Retired Version Column #
2610 1000 NPCR 12765 - 13764
Description
Text area for information describing all surgical procedures performed as part of treatment.
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 Initial RX SEER

1260

Date 1st Crs RX CoC

1270

RX Date Surgery

1200

RX Summ--Surg Prim Site

1290

RX Hosp--Surg Prim Site

670

RX Summ--Scope Reg LN Sur

1292

RX Hosp--Scope Reg LN Sur

672

RX Summ--Surg Oth Reg/Dis

1294

RX Hosp--Surg Oth Reg/Dis

674

Reason for No Surgery

1340

RX Summ--Surgical Margins

1320

RX Hosp--Palliative Proc

3280

RX Summ--Palliative Proc

3270

Text--Place of Diagnosis

2690

RX Summ--Surg/Rad Seq

1380

RX Summ--Systemic/Sur Seq     

1639