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2060 final attempt 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following is standardized to meet national standards for registry data items and key functions? | Registry software |
| One of the first federal laws to provide specific, statutory protection for patient privacy is: | FERPA |
| The type of cancer registry that maintains data on all patients diagnosed and/or treated for cancer at a facility and focuses on improving patient care is a: | Hospital registry |
| Educating registrars is a responsibility of: (select all that apply) | NCRA NAACCR NPCR CoC |
| From which electronic format are the standards for reporting nonhospital sources developed from? | Health level 7 |
| Which of the following occurs during a central cancer registry cancer case consolidation process? (check all that apply) | Multiple cancer records are reviewed for the same patient |
| After completing death clearance follow-back and no further information is located, what happens to those cases? | Entered in the registry as a DCO case |
| The second process of death clearance for those cases that did not match the central registry database is known as: | Follow-back |
| The professional code of ethics for registrars is published by which of the following organizations? | NCRA |
| Hospital registries develop and adhere to a set of accurate collection and reporting of cancer data. | Policies and Procedures |
| Cancer reporting to registries is considered a: | Public health activity |
| What makes up the primary source of information for nearly all population-based or central cancer registries? | Hospital based cases |
| The mission of which organization is to provide high quality resources in education and research to advance the quality of care its members provide for patients with cancer? | American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) |
| The goal of the HIPAA Privacy Rule is to assure that patient health information is protected while allowing for the flow of health information. | TRUE |
| The digital version of a patient's chart from a specific facility is an: | EMR |
| What national standard gives specifications for reporting pathology reports for reportable cancers and benign/borderline CNS tumors to appropriate hospital and central cancer registries? | Laboratory electronic reporting for pathology |
| Data linkage is the process of matching data from multiple sources. | True |
| This program helps monitor the internal consistency of registry data by using algorithms to detect unlikely or impossible codes or combinations of codes: | CHECK |
| Cancer registrars are healthcare professionals who collect data that provides essential information to health care providers and health officials to monitor and | See below |
| and improve cancer treatment, conduct research, and target cancer prevention and screening programs. | True |
| Which of the following organizations play a significant role in cancer registry and surveillance in the United States: (check all that apply) | ??? |
| From a legal and ethical perspective, the science of cancer is an instrumental part of a cancer registrars job. | True |
| The process of converting an address at diagnosis into analyzable data is known as: | Geocoding |
| A central cancer registry can be described as ALL but which of the following: | ??? |
| Which agent is responsible for many tumor, node, and metastasis (TNM) edits? | CoC |
| Standardization of data collected by cancer registries is important for cancer surveillance. | True |
| This organization's mission is to save lives, celebrate lives, and lead the fight for a world without cancer. | ACS |
| Of the following, which gives patients the right to withhold information about privately funded health treatments from health insurance providers. | Privacy rule |
| A registrar who performs abstracting and reporting for a facility as an independent contractor is considered a: | Business associates |
| All cases for a diagnosis year must be submitted to a central registry within what time period? | 6 months |
| The publication that is available every five years and provides detailed and comparable high-quality data on the incidence of cancer from registries worldwide is: | Cancer Incidence in Five Continents |