Alternate Name Item# Length Source of Standard Column #
Place of Diagnosis 2690 60 NPCR 20765-20824

Description
Text area for manual documentation of the facility, physician office, city, state, or county where the diagnosis was made.

Rationale
Text documentation is an essential component of a complete electronic abstract 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.

Instructions Note: For abstracting software that allows unlimited text, NAACCR recommends that the software indicate to the abstractor 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
Reporting Hospital
RX Hosp--DX/Stg Proc
RX Hosp--Surg Prim Site
Type of Reporting Source
Class of Case
Institution Referred From
Institution Referred To

Item Number, 2410, 2420, 500, 540, 610, 670, 740