Description
Date of the inpatient discharge from the reporting facility after the most definitive surgery. In the absence of surgery, use date of inpatient discharge for other therapy. In the absence of therapy, use date of inpatient discharge for diagnostic evaluation. This discharge date corresponds to the admission date described by Date of Inpatient Adm [590]. See page 99 for date format. Use DATE OF INPT DISCH FLAG [601] if there is no appropriate or known date for this item.
Note: This item is not the same as the old NAACCR item, Date of Discharge, which has been deleted from the NAACCR layout.
Note: This data item is no longer supported by CoC (as of January 1, 2003).