The FCDS 2025 Data Quality Indicator Reports are now available in IDEA

Written By Megsys Herna, BA, ODS

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.

 

Please use this data quality indicator report to identify potential problem areas across your facility’s abstracts.

 

If you have any questions about the report, please contact Meg Herna, at (305) 243-2625 or mherna@med.miami.edu.

           

Thank you for your support in providing complete, accurate, and timely cancer data to FCDS.

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