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Data Standards and Data Dictionary

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Length: 40
Source of Standard: NAACCR
Section Name: Patient-Confidential
Year Implemented: 2021
Version Implemented: 21
Record Types: A, M, C

XML NAACCR ID: nameBirthSurname

Parent XML Element: Patient

Required Status:

NPCR Collect: R - Required
CoC Collect: . - No recommendations
SEER Collect: R - Required
CCCR Collect: R* - Required, when available

Description:

Last name (surname) of patient at birth, regardless of gender or marital status. 
Other alternate names should be recorded in the data item, Name--Alias [2280].

Rationale:

This can be used to link reports on a person whose surname might be different on different documents. It is also useful when using a Spanish surname algorithm to categorize ethnicity.

Format:

Mixed case; Left-justified, and blank-filled.

Item Data Type:

text

Allowable Values

Embedded spaces, hyphens, apostrophes. No other special characters are allowed.

Code Notes:

The field should be left blank if the birth surname is not known or not applicable. Since a value in this field may be used by linkage software or other computer algorithms, only legitimate surnames are allowable, and any variation of “unknown” or “not applicable” is not allowable.

Note: This data item was introduced to be a gender-neutral birth-surname data item, analogous to Name--Maiden [2390]. It is to have been populated in the 2021 conversion by values in [2390]. The original (Name--Maiden) data item had been supported by CoC until January 1, 2003.