Chapter 7: Vocabulary

Question 1

Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)

Answer 1

An anatomically-based, consensus-devired global severity scoring system that classifies each injury by region according to its relative importance on a 6-point ordinal scale (1=minor and 6=maximal). AIS is the basis for the Injury Severity Score (ISS) calculation of the injury patient.

Question 2

Accession Number

Answer 2

A number assigned to each case as it is entered in a cancer registry

Question 3

Accession Registry

Answer 3

A list of cases in a cancer registry in the order in which they were entered.

Question 4

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Answer 4

The branch of the US Public Health Service that supports general health research and distributes research findings and treatment guidelines with the goal of improving the guality, appropriateness, and affectiveness of healthcare services.

Question 5

Aggregate data

Answer 5

Data extracted from individual health records and combined to form de-identified information about groups of patients that can be compared and analyzed.

Question 6

American College of Surgeons (ACS) Commission on Cancer

Answer 6

Established by the American College of Surgeons (ACoS) in 1922, the multidisciplinary Commission on Cancer (CoC) establishes standards to ensure quality, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive cancer care delivery in healthcare settings.

Question 7

Case definiton

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A method of determining criteria for cases that should be included in a registry.

Question 8

Case finding

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A method of identifying patients who have been seen or treated in a healthcare facility for the particular disease or condition of interest to the registry

Question 9

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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A federal agency dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life through the prevention and control disease, injury, and disability. Committed to a programs that reduce the health and economic consequences of the leading causes of death and disbaility, thereby ensuring a long, productive healthy life for all people

Question 10

Certified tumor registrar (CTR)

Answer 10

Credential for a cancer registrar achieved by passing an examination provided by the National Board of Certification of Refistrars (NBCR); eligibility requirements for the certification examination include a combination of experience and education.

Question 11

Clinical trial

Answer 11

1. The final stages of a long and careful research process that tests new types of medical care to see if they are safe 2. Experimental study in which an intervention or treatment is given to one group in a clinical setting and the outcomes compared with a control group that did not have the intervention or treatment or that had a different intervention or treatment

Question 12

Collaboratuve Stage Data Set

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A new standardized neoplasm-staging system developed by the American Joint Commission on Cancer.

Question 13

Demeographic informationl

Answer 13

Information used to identify an individual, such as name, address, gender, age, and other information linked to a specific person

Question 14

Disease index

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A listing in diagnosis code number order of patients discharged from the caility during a particular time period.

Question 15

Disease registry

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A centralized collection of data used to imrpove the quality of care and measure the effectiveness of a particular aspect of healthcare delivery

Question 16

Facility-based registry

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A registry that includes only cases from a particular type of healthcare facility, such as hospital or clinic.

Question 17

Health Services Research

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Research conducted on the subject of healthcare delivery that examines organizational structures and systems as well as the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare services

Question 18

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)

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A family of databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by AHRQ. HCUP database are derived from administrative data and contain encounter-level, clinical and nonclinical information including all-listed diagnoses and procedures, discharge patients, regardless of payer (such as, Medicare, Medicaid, orivate insurance, uninsured), beginning in 1988

Question 19

Incident

Answer 19

An occurrence in a medical facility that is inconsistent with accepted standards of care

Question 20

Index

Answer 20

An organized (usually alphabetical) list of specific data that serves to guide, indicate, or otherwise facilitate reference to the data

Question 21

Injury Severity Score (ISS)

Answer 21

An overall severity measurement maintained in the trauma registry and calculated from the abbreviated injury scores for the three most severe injuries of each patient

Question 22

Medical Literature, Anaylysis, and Retriveal System Online (MEDLINE)

Answer 22

Medline is the US National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 19 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.

Question 23

Medicare Provider Analysis and Review File (MEDPAR)

Answer 23

A database containing information submitted by fiscal intermediaries that is used by the Office of the Inspector General to Indentity suspicious billing and charge practices.

Question 24

National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA)

Answer 24

A not-for-profit association representing cancer registry professionals and Certified Tumor Registrars (CTR). The primary focus is education and certification witht he goal to ensure all cancer registry professionals have the required knowledge to be superior in their field.

Question 25

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

Answer 25

The federal agency responsible for collecting and disseminatiing information on health services utilization and the health status of the population in the United States; developed the clinical modification to the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-10) and is responsible for updating the diagnosis portion of the ICD-10-CM

Question 26

National Liberty of Medicine

Answer 26

The world’s largest medical library and a branch of the National Institutes of Health.

Question 27

National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)

Answer 27

A confidential information clearinghouse created by Congress with the primary goals of improving healthcare quality, protecting the public, and reducing healthcare fraud and abuse in the United States. The NPDB is primarily an alert or flagging system intended to facilitate comprehensive review of the professional credentials of healthcare practitioners, healthcare entities, providers, and supplies.

Question 28

North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)

Answer 28

Organization that has a certification program for state populatio-based registries; Certification is based on the quality of data collected and reported by the state registry; NAACCR has developed standards for data quality and format and works with other cancer organizations to align their various standards.

Question 29

Operation Index

Answer 29

A list of the operations and surgical procedures performed in a healthcare facility, which is sequenced according to the code numbers of the classification system in use.

Question 30

Patient-identifiable data

Answer 30

Personal information that can be linked to a specific patient, such as age, gender, date of birth, and address

Question 31

Physician index

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A list of patients and their physicians usually arranged according to the physician code numbers assigned by the healthcare facility.

Question 32

Population-based registry

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A type of registry that includes information from more than one facility in a psecific geopolitical area, such as a state or region

Question 33

Primary data source

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The health record is this type of source because it contains information about a patient that has been documented by the professionals who provided care or services to that patient.

Question 34

Protocol

Answer 34

In healthcare, a detailed plan of care for a specific medical condition based on ivestigative studies; in medical research, a rule or procedure used to address and ensure delivery of data

Question 35

Public health

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An area of healthcare that deals with the health of populations in geopolitical areas, such as skates and counties.

Question 36

Secondary data source

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Data derived from the primary patient record, uch as an index or a database.

Question 37

Stage of the neoplasm

Answer 37

Pathological data characterizing the cancer, specifically the amount of metastasis, if any.

Question 38

Traumatic injury

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A wound or other injury caused by an external physical force such as an automobile accident, a shooting, a stabbing, or a fall

Question 39

Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

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A program initiated by the National Library of Medicine to build an intelligent, automated system that can understand biomedial concepts, words, and expressions and their interrelationships; includes concepts and terms from nay different source and vocabularies.

Question 40

Vital statistics

Answer 40

Data related to births, deaths, marriages, and fetal deaths