Inst Referred From

Field Length: 10

Record the code for the referring hospital where the case was diagnosed or the patient received any therapy for this primary.

For facilities with 6-digit ID numbers that were assigned by the ACoS, CoC before January 1, 2001, use the hospital ID number assigned by the Cancer Department, preceded by 0000. For facilities with 8-digit ID numbers, assigned by CoC after January 1, 2001, use the 8-digit code preceded by two zeros.

EXAMPLE: General Hospital, Anytown, Kentucky, has ID number 510999, would be recorded as 0000510999.

Refer to the list of Kentucky healthcare facility ID numbers in Appendix F.  A list of hospital code numbers for other states may be obtained from the CoC web site at: http://www.facs.org/.

When there is no referring hospital, this item should be coded with ten zeros. If the patient was referred by an unknown facility, code the field with 0099999999.

If the patient was hospitalized for the malignancy in more than one hospital, record the code for the most recent hospitalization before this admission.