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Data Standards and Data Dictionary

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Length: 8
Source of Standard: NAACCR
Section Name: Hospital-Specific
Record Types: A, M, C, I

XML NAACCR ID: dateOfInptAdm

Parent XML Element: Tumor

Alternate Names:

  • Date of Inpatient Admission (CoC)
  • Date of Inpatient Adm

Required Status:

NPCR Collect: . - No recommendations
CoC Collect: . - No recommendations
SEER Collect: . - No recommendations
CCCR Collect: . - No recommendations

Description:

Date of the inpatient admission to the reporting facility for the most definitive surgery. In the absence of surgery, use date of inpatient admission for any other therapy. In the absence of therapy, use date of inpatient admission for diagnostic evaluation. See Data Descriptor Table for date format. Use DATE OF INPT ADM FLAG [591] if there is no appropriate or known date for this item.

Formerly Date of Inpatient Adm.

General Notes:

Note: This data item is no longer supported by CoC (as of January 1, 2003).

Format:

YYYYMMDD

Item Data Type:

date

Allowable Values

Valid dates