Chapter 7: Vocabulary Flashcards
To assist you in learning the vocabulary found throughout your text, the exam, and the industry.
Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)
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.
Accession Number
A number assigned to each case as it is entered in a cancer registry
Accession Registry
A list of cases in a cancer registry in the order in which they were entered.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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.
Aggregate data
Data extracted from individual health records and combined to form de-identified information about groups of patients that can be compared and analyzed.
American College of Surgeons (ACS) Commission on Cancer
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.
Case definiton
A method of determining criteria for cases that should be included in a registry.
Case finding
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
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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
Certified tumor registrar (CTR)
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.
Clinical trial
- 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
Collaboratuve Stage Data Set
A new standardized neoplasm-staging system developed by the American Joint Commission on Cancer.
Demeographic informationl
Information used to identify an individual, such as name, address, gender, age, and other information linked to a specific person
Disease index
A listing in diagnosis code number order of patients discharged from the caility during a particular time period.
Disease registry
A centralized collection of data used to imrpove the quality of care and measure the effectiveness of a particular aspect of healthcare delivery
Facility-based registry
A registry that includes only cases from a particular type of healthcare facility, such as hospital or clinic.
Health Services Research
Research conducted on the subject of healthcare delivery that examines organizational structures and systems as well as the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare services
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
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
Incident
An occurrence in a medical facility that is inconsistent with accepted standards of care
Index
An organized (usually alphabetical) list of specific data that serves to guide, indicate, or otherwise facilitate reference to the data
Injury Severity Score (ISS)
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
Medical Literature, Anaylysis, and Retriveal System Online (MEDLINE)
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.
Medicare Provider Analysis and Review File (MEDPAR)
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.
National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA)
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.
