All the Latest FCDS News
JUNE 2025
I am pleased to announce that our very own Gary Levin received the most prestigious NAACCR award for his service to cancer surveillance: the Calum Muir Award. This award is bestowed upon those who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field. This year’s NAACCR meeting was held in Hartford, Connecticut, home of the first central cancer registry in the United States. This was a celebratory event as we recognized the 90th year of the Connecticut Central Cancer Registry.
JUNE 2025
We are pleased to announce that the FCDS 2022 Annual Report is now available and can be accessed through the Publications section of our website.
JUNE 2025
FCDS matched the 2023 In-Patient and Out-Patient Discharges reported the facilities’ Finance-Billing/Medical Records Department to the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).
All records with principal or secondary cancer diagnoses were linked to the FCDS database. A match was also completed of the Florida Vital Statistics Death Certificates for 2023. All non-matching records have been placed in your queue for review. The Consolidated Follow Back audit combines AHCA, Ambulatory Surgery Center (AMBI), and the Death Clearance follow-back process into a single follow-back queue.
The 2023 Consolidated Follow-Back records are available in IDEA for review.
JULY 2025
The FCDS 2025 DQIR reflects facility-level data on analytic cases with a diagnosis date between 2019 and 2023 and received by FCDS through 5/15/2025.
The QC report is run annually during the first half of the year to provide essential facility-level feedback about unknown values for key data items. These key variables include sex, race, ethnicity, primary payor, tobacco use, marital status, missing social security number, address at diagnosis, percent of microscopically confirmed cases, ill-defined or unknown primary site, NOS histology, unknown summary stage, and unknown values in SSDIs. The percentage of “unknown” and “ill-defined” values serves as a data quality indicator that is also used to rank Florida’s overall data quality and the completeness of data for each case reported. It can also be used to compare Florida’s data to that of other states regarding overall data reliability..
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