The FCDS 2026 Data Quality Indicator Reports are now available in IDEA

Written By Megsys Herna, BA, ODS

The FCDS 2026 Data Quality Indicator Reports (DQIR) for diagnosis years 2020-2024 are now available for review in IDEA under the Quality Control/ Data Quality Indicator Report menu for hospital staff with HOSPADMIN or FAA roles.

The FCDS 2026 DQIR reflects facility-level data on analytic cases with a diagnosis date between 2020 and 2024 and received by FCDS through 5/15/2026. The QC report is run annually in the first half of the year to provide important facility-level feedback on 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 percent of “unknown” and “ill-defined” values is a data quality indicator used to rank Florida’s overall data quality and completeness for each reported case and to compare Florida data to other states for 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. 

              

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