Type of Reporting Src
Organization | Field Name | ID | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
KCR | Type of Reporting Src (TypeRptSrc) | 31170 | yes |
NAACCR | Type of Reporting Source | yes |
Field Length: 1
The Type of Reporting Source identifies the source documents used to abstract the case. This is not necessarily the original document that identified the case; rather, it is the source that provided the best information.
Code | Description |
|---|---|
1 | Hospital inpatient; Managed health plans with comprehensive, unified medical records (new code definition effective with diagnosis on or after 1/1/2006) |
2 | Radiation Treatment Centers or Medical Oncology Centers (hospital-affiliated or independent) (effective with diagnosis on or after 1/1/2006) |
3 | Laboratory only (hospital-affiliated or independent) |
4 | Physician's Office/Private Medical Practitioner (LMD) |
5 | Nursing/Convalescent Home/Hospice |
6 | Autopsy only |
7 | Death Certificate only |
8 | Other hospital outpatient units/surgery centers (effective with diagnosis on or after 1/1/2006) |
Definitions
Managed health plan: HMO or other health plan (e.g. Kaiser, Veterans Administration, military facilities) in which all diagnostic and treatment information is maintained centrally (in a unit record) and is available to the abstractor.
Physician office: Examinations, tests and limited surgical procedures may be performed in a physician office. If called a surgery center, but cannot perform surgical procedures under general anesthesia, code as a physician office.
Serial record: The office or facility stores information separately for each patient encounter.
Surgery center: Surgery centers are equipped and staffed to perform surgical procedures under general anesthesia. Patient does not stay overnight.
Unit record: The office or facility stores information for all of a patient’s encounters in one record with one record number.
Priority Order for Assigning Type of Reporting Source
When multiple source documents are used to abstract a case, use the following priority order to assign a code for Type of Reporting Source:
Priority order of codes
1, 2, 8, 4, 3, 5, 6, 7
Note: Beginning with cases diagnosed 1/1/2006, the definitions for this field have been expanded. Codes 2 and 8 were added to identify outpatient sources that were previously grouped under code 1. Laboratory reports now have priority over nursing home reports. The source facilities included in the previous code 1 (hospital inpatient and outpatient) are split between codes 1, 2, and 8. No changes were made to the field for cases already existing in the cancer registry database diagnosed prior to January 1, 2006.
Code Definitions
Code | Label | Source Documents | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hospital inpatient: Managed health plans with comprehensive, unified medical records | -Hospital inpatient -Offices/facilities with unit record -HMO physician office or group -HMO affiliated free-standing laboratory, surgery, radiation or oncology clinic Includes outpatient services of HMOs and large multi-specialty physician group practices with unit record. | 1 |
2 | Radiation Treatment Centers or Medical Oncology Centers (hospital-affiliated or independent) | -Facilities with serial record (not a unit record) -Radiation treatment centers -Medical oncology centers (hospital affiliated or independent) There were no source documents from code 1. | 2 |
3 | Laboratory Only (hospital-affiliated or independent) | -Laboratory with serial record (not a unit record) There were no source documents from codes 1, 2, 8, or 4. | 5 |
4 | Physician’s Office/Private Medical Practitioner (LMD) | -Physician’s office that is NOT an HMO or large multi-specialty physician group practice. There were no source documents from codes 1, 2, or 8. | 4 |
5 | Nursing/Convalescent Home/ Hospice | -Nursing or convalescent home or a hospice. There were no source documents from codes 1, 2, 8, 4, or 3. | 6 |
6 | Autopsy Only | -Autopsy The cancer was first diagnosed on autopsy. There are no source documents from codes 1, 2, 8, 4, 3, or 5. | 7 |
7 | Death Certificate Only | -Death Certificate Death Certificate is the only source of information; follow-back activities did not identify source documents from codes 1, 2, 8, 4, 3, 5, or 6. If another source document is subsequently identified, the Type of Reporting Source code must be changed to the appropriate code in the range of 1, 2, 8, 4, 3, or 6. | 8 |
8 | Other hospital outpatient units/surgery centers | -Other hospital outpatient units/surgery centers. Includes, but not limited to, outpatient surgery and nuclear medicine services. There are no source documents from codes 1 or 2. | 3 |