CHAPTER 12 QUIZ

Question 1

TRUE OR FALSE: Central cancer registries are the connection between hospital registries and national cancer programs.

Answer 1

TRUE

Question 2

Central registries operate with _____ authority.

Answer 2

STATUTORY

Question 3

TRUE OR FALSE: Operation of a central cancer registry is labor intensive.

Answer 3

TRUE

Question 4

Specify two substantial funding sources/organizations for population-based central registries.

Answer 4

NPCR AND SEER

Question 5

Where does the majority of data submitted to central cancer registries come from?

Answer 5

HOSPITAL REGISTRIES

Question 6

Identify five types of personnel, or staff, found in a central registry.

Answer 6

director/manager, cancer registrars, information technology professionals, epidemiologists, statisticians.

Question 7

What record layout is utilized by state central cancer registries?
NCRA
NAACCR
NCDB
SEER

Answer 7

NAACCR

Question 8

TRUE OR FALSE: All cases for a diagnosis year must be submitted to the central registry no later than six months after diagnosis.

Answer 8

TRUE

Question 9

Which of the following are casefinding sources for central registries? (choose all that apply)
physical therapy notes
death certificate files
pathology lab reports
hospice disease index
outpatient disease index

Answer 9

death certificate files
pathology lab reports
hospice disease index
outpatient disease index

Question 10

Non-hospital reporting sources for a central registry include all but which one of the following:
freestanding pathology laboratories
drug stores
outpatient cancer treatment centers
physician offices

Answer 10

DRUG STORES

Question 11

TRUE OR FALSE: Death clearance matches registered deaths in a population against reportable conditions in a cancer registry database.

Answer 11

TRUE

Question 12

Central cancer registries perform which of the following: (check all that apply)
casefinding
death clearance
follow-up
tumor conference
auditing

Answer 12

CASEFINDING, DEATH CLEARANCE, FOLLOW UP, AND AUDITING

Question 13

TRUE OR FALSE: When a hospital does not have a cancer registrar on site, the central registry may coordinate with the hospital’s HIM Department to ensure that state reporting requirements are met.

Answer 13

TRUE

Question 14

Explain the record consolidation process.

Answer 14

Record consolidation is done when there are multiple data sources for the same patient and tumor, when these multiple source records come in, they are merged together into one per primary cancer.

Question 15

Name the four components that most central registries complete to ensure data accuracy and that each new cancer case is counted only once.

Answer 15

data edits

patient record linkage

tumor record linkage

data item consolidation

Question 16

TRUE OR FALSE: Upon submission to a central registry, source records are subjected to physician review.

Answer 16

FALSE

Question 17

If the incoming source record matches with an existing patient in the database, the record then goes through a tumor record ___.

Answer 17

LINKAGE

Question 18

The process of converting an address at diagnosis into analyzable data is known as:
geocoding
geospatial
geometric
conversion

Answer 18

GEOCODING

Question 19

TRUE OR FALSE: Central registries primarily perform active follow-up using linkages with other outside data sets.

Answer 19

FALSE

Question 20

Population-based central registries submit their data to a larger data system such as: (check all that apply)

NPCR
IACR
NAACCR
NCDB

Answer 20

NPCR, IACR, NAACCR