Organization

Field Name

ID

Required

KCR

Palliative Procedure (PallProc)

31670

no

NAACCR

RX Summ--Palliative Proc

3270

no


Field Length: 1

  • Record the type of palliative care provided. Palliative care is performed to relieve symptoms and may include surgery, radiation, systemic therapy or other pain management therapy.

  • Palliative procedures are not used to diagnose or stage the primary tumor.

  • Palliative surgical procedures, radiation therapy, and systemic therapy that are part of first course therapy, which also remove or modify primary or secondary malignant tissue, are coded here and in the respective therapy fields as well.

 Code

Description

 0

No palliative care provided. Diagnosed at autopsy only.

 1

Surgery (which may involve a bypass procedure) to alleviate symptoms, but no attempt to diagnose, stage, or treat the primary tumor is made.

 2

Radiation therapy to alleviate symptoms, but no attempt to diagnose, stage, or treat the primary tumor is made.

 3

Chemotherapy, hormone therapy, or other systemic drugs to alleviate symptoms, but no attempt to   diagnose, stage, or treat the primary tumor is made.

 4

Patient received or was referred for pain management therapy with no other palliative care.

 5

Any combination of codes 1, 2, and/or 3 without code 4.

 6

Any combination of codes 1, 2, and/or 3 with code 4.

 7

Palliative care was performed or referred, but no information on the type of procedure is available in patient record. Palliative care was provided that does not fit the descriptions in codes 1-6.

 9

It is unknown if palliative care was performed or referred; not stated in patient record.