NAACCR Layout in metafile has a couple flipped fields

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    AnonymousMonica Guistwite
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    We have run across at least one edit that this impacts ([N3066]) and there may be more. However, the NAACCR layout table WITHIN the metafile contains a couple flipped field locations: Number of Positive Pelvic Nodes (NAACCR#3902 column #1809) has column #1807 within the metafile layout table instead; And Number of Examined Para- Arotic Nodes (NAACCR#3899 column #1807) has been given column position #1809 instead in the metafile layout. I have e-mailed specific screenshots of the NAACCR layout from the EDITWRITER5 to Jim and Elaine. This edit and possibly others involving either of these fields will not be able to be corrected by an abstractor. Posting here so it is documented. Thanks for looking further into this.

    #10740
    AnonymousRuth Li
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    Hi Monica,

    Thank you so much for finding this! I did a comparison of Chapter 7 (record layout) that is on the NAACCR website with an export of the Layout that is in v18C metafile and found the following:

    v18C layout has 9 fields that are NOT on the Chapter 7 layout:
    (start position 1647, same as NPCR specific field) EDP MDE Link
    (start position 1648) EDP MDE Link Date
    (start position 1656) Height
    (start position 1658) Weight
    (start position 1661) Tobacco Use Cigarettes
    (start position 1662) Tobacco Use Other Smoke
    (start position 1663) Tobacco Use Smokeless
    (start position 1664) Tobacco Use NOS
    (start position 1665) Source Comorbidity

    Not accounting for the above, there are 6 “pairs” of swapped fields:
    State at DX Geocode 2000
    GeoLocationID – 2000
    State at DX Geocode 2010
    GeoLocationID – 2010
    State at DX Geocode 2020
    GeoLocationID – 2020
    Number of Examined Para-Aortic Nodes
    Number of Positive Pelvic Nodes
    Subsq RX 2nd Course Surg
    Subsq RX 2nd Course Codes
    Subsq RX 3rd Course Surg
    Subsq RX 3rd Course Codes

    See attached screenshot and Excel spreadsheet – green columns are from chapter 7, I did a check each for position, length, item#, and name.

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    #10743
    AnonymousRuth Li
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    Update: the following pairs all start at the same position, so they may be interchangeable fields that are located in the same place in the NAACCR layout file, and may not be an issue.
    State at DX Geocode 2000 & GeoLocationID – 2000
    State at DX Geocode 2010 & GeoLocationID – 2010
    State at DX Geocode 2020 & GeoLocationID – 2020
    Subsq RX 2nd Course Surg & Subsq RX 2nd Course Codes
    Subsq RX 3rd Course Surg & Subsq RX 3rd Course Codes

    So it seems there is only 1 set of fields that are flipped, which is what you found:
    Number of Examined Para-Aortic Nodes
    Number of Positive Pelvic Nodes

    I checked our v18 test software from CDC (Prep Plus) and the layout in there is the same as in chapter 7, which is # Examined Para-Aortic Nodes in position 1807 and # Positive Pelvic Nodes in position 1809.

    There are 16 EDITS that include EITHER one of these 2 data fields.

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