Cancer Management Book Practice Test

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• Which option lists the groups that participated in NAACCR's 1994 standards volume?
• Cancer control is defined as the use of evidence-based prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, and continuing care intervention strategies to reduce cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality in defined populations.
• Journal of Registry Management (JRM) is the publication where trauma registry abstracts are published.
• Which data format(s) are recommended by NAACCR to laboratories for reporting pathology report text information electronically to central registries?
• Brachytherapy is:
• What kind of edit check detects conflicts between related fields such as a Surgery Summary field and lymph node counts?
• Which term matches: A data item whose codes, definitions, and coding instructions are shared among registry organizations?
• NAACCR has no role in managing the generation of new registry data items.
• Social Security number is grouped under which abstracting section?
• What is the difference between IMRT and IGRT?
• The survey process is the same for every facility.
• Which entity does the Cancer Liaison Physician serve as a liaison to?
• Which organization is known by the acronym ANSI?
• Which term refers to a system used to manage geographic data on maps?
• New standard data items for cancer registries are implemented at the beginning of a diagnosis year.
• Quality Assurance Programs transformed into which type of Programs?
• Which prevalence measure represents the proportion of people alive on a given day who had a cancer diagnosis within the past x years?
• What primary purpose does the cancer registrar database serve?
• Hospital and population-based cancer registries collect data to
• Which term defines the permissible means of access, use, and disclosure of patient information?
• In comparing incidence rates between groups, use of age-specific incidence rates controls for difference in the age composition of the groups.
• Edit processes apply to data submissions from which sources?
• Which of the following statements accurately reflects a use of NCDB data?
• Will commercial support change the format for cancer conferences?
• NAACCR recommends reporting pathology report text electronically to central registries in which formats?
• Which governing agencies set reporting standards for hospital and population-based registries in the United States?
• Which of the following is NOT a NLMS data element?
• What term describes a disease that does not respond to hormone therapy?
• Which of the following is a reason Edits software was developed?
• The statement: If red shading on a map corresponds to above-average rates, and most of a state's area is red, this means that the state as a whole has above-average rates.
• Survival can be measured in various ways. The choice of measurement depends on the research question or __________ ___ _________________
• Which statement describes a difference between ICD and ICD-O as used in cancer registries?
• Historical data review involves:
• The history of U.S. cancer registration began in the:
• A hospital with an ACoS-approved cancer program is not required to maintain a cancer registry.
• What is the definition of an asynchronous learning environment?
• Residency at diagnosis rules are provided by which entity?
• How many Commission on Cancer-accredited cancer programs are there in the United States and Puerto Rico?
• What is the purpose of an Edit Set?
• What is not a principle of an Abstracting Methods course?
• What type of study design is used to investigate whether taller men are at greater risk for prostate cancer?
• A performance measure is best described as:
• How can a CoC-trained consultant assist a program?
• Which of the following is NOT a key role for cancer registry technical staff?
• The NCDB was established in:
• SEER data collection includes linkages and electronic data capture. True or False?
• An example of acceptance sampling is:
• Beginning in 2003, which organization funded SEER registries to link their data to the IHS patient registration database?
• What is the purpose of residency at diagnosis guidelines in cancer registries?
• Which organization is the administrative sponsor for the Collaborative Stage Data Collection System?
• What is the primary role of the program coordinators?
• The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) is not population-based; i.e., NCDB is not a population-based registry.
• Which quality method is most costly?
• What choices exist if the data requested are not routinely collected by the registry?
• Unknown values:
• Which statement best describes building a complex report logic?
• The largest provincial/territorial cancer registry in Canada is operated by the province of which?
• Which of the following is not a use for the SAR?
• Approximately what percentage of cancer cases is histologically confirmed?
• SEER has the longest record of incidence and survival data with a 35-year history in most registries. True or False?
• Which data element is available in NLMS?
• Which of the following is a direct benefit associated with cancer program accreditation?
• In what year was HIPAA enacted?
• Survival measures are often expressed as the ______ of patients alive at some point after diagnosis.
• Which statement best describes when a reabstracting study is used?
• The collection of data items maintained by a registry is called a data set.
• Which of the following is NOT a stated benefit of creating a presenter format for case presentation at a cancer conference?
• The period 1985 through 2007 covers how many years?
• Why is a relational database structure better for storing registry data than a NAACCR data exchange record?
• NAACCR data research products include which of the following?
• Which publication is the Cancer Program Practice Profile Reports (CP3R)?
• Which software is used for collecting cancer stage data in registries?
• Which method is appropriate for transmitting confidential patient data over the Web or Internet?
• ____________________ is the process of identifying cases quickly for epidemiologic protocols.
• Can change over time as medical knowledge changes.
• Which registry is primarily used to monitor cancer trends over time and determine patterns in populations?
• In which phase of a clinical trial is the safety of a new agent tested against a specific cancer type using the dose determined in Phase I?
• Which of the following is NOT a type of edit?
• Which statement is accurate about coordinating the survey schedule?
• Founded in 1918 as a nonprofit, voluntary collaboration for standardization activities, which organization is referred to as ANSI?
• The Joint Commission defines a core measure set as a unique grouping of what?
• The Belmont Report, published in 1978, mandated the establishment of institutional review boards (IRBs), outlined protocol design criteria, and required that written informed consent be provided to all research subjects.
• What is the primary purpose of standard data edits?
• The abbreviations ONCHIT and ONC refer to which offices, respectively?
• Linking data is the process of matching data from different sources based on identical or similar items from each source.
• Which of the following is a unique feature of the SEER database?
• Which of the following is NOT a format used for cancer conferences?
• The Collaborative Staging System (CS) implemented in 2004 is based on which coding system?
• When is it appropriate to show data in a table rather than a graph?
• The NCDB contains data submitted by:
• The field SurgSumScopeRegLN in a surgical abstract corresponds to which data element?
• Which statement about virtual servers is true?
• The Department of Defense (DoD) includes information on patients' participation in military campaigns and exposure to toxic agents for what purpose?
• The law covering wrongful acts that result in harm to another person, such as invasion of privacy, is called what?
• When an old item is no longer relevant, which action is described as possible?
• Which of the following is NOT a data category included in NCDB?
• Which of the following is an open-source database application?
• Which data quality characteristic is illustrated by ensuring all observed cases are captured?
• SEER public-use data include incidence and population data associated by which attributes?
• Which option correctly identifies the three industrial quality-control methodologies mentioned?
• Which organization is the accrediting body for cancer programs described in this framework?
• Which option correctly identifies duplicate NCDB cases?
• How often should a registry plan to replace desktop computers?
• The survey focuses on which activities except?
• In SharePoint, when a file is checked out, who can edit the file before checking it back in?
• Which term refers to industry-developed guidelines that go beyond legal requirements?
• What does PHR stand for?
• Name the three edit components.
• The CDC-funded NPCR is a population-based system of cancer registries established in 1992 by the Cancer Registries Amendment Act (Public Law 102-515).
• Sequence number is grouped under which abstracting section?
• The commitment to professional development and growth is a/an ______ commitment.
• Death clearance is a method used to ensure complete ascertainment of cancer cases in central registries.
• If a facility is not CoC approved, who should be assigned the responsibility to develop the cancer conference plan?
• URL stands for which of the following?
• Which statement best describes one purpose of Edits software?
• In the registry governance mapping, which registry corresponds to the policy manual?
• CS resolved which issue between the other staging systems?
• Which data element describes the initial therapy provided to patients in NCDB?
• The SEER Program of the NCI was started in
• An example of accuracy and specificity in coding primary site for upper lobe of lung is:
• What is the relative survival rate?
• Which statement correctly describes the OSI application layer?
• Active follow-up and passive follow-up are the two types of follow-up.
• Radiation therapy is grouped under which abstracting section?
• NPCR objectives are outlined in which act?
• A recoding audit will assess which aspects?
• NAACCR is governed by which entity?
• In Canada, population-based cancer registration at the provincial level began in the 1930s.
• The three categories of quality are
• What are two standard measures of survival?
• In ICD-O coding, which component indicates the cell type?
• What does the acronym CPRI stand for?
• Which statement about the surveyor team composition is NOT true?
• The central registry need not be concerned with patients who live within their catchment area but are diagnosed or treated outside their catchment area.
• Can two different data standards be syntactically interoperable but not semantically interoperable?
• Computerized edit checks are one of the least cost-effective methods for assessing quality.
• An appeal of an Accreditation Award is appropriate when the program had complied with the standard at the time of survey.
• Which survival measure is used to measure the excess mortality associated with a cancer diagnosis?
• Which of the following comprises the three parts of the NCDB data cycle?
• Inter-record checks examine data items within a single patient's abstract.
• There are two types of record linkage: deterministic and probabilistic.
• In what year was the Collaborative Staging (CS) System implemented?
• In the registry governance mapping, which registry corresponds to the data item list?
• Which type of registry gathers and disseminates epidemiologic data on a specific type of cancer?
• Laser ablation is utilized for what types of malignancy?
• Which imaging method is used daily before treatment in image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT)?
• Which of the following is included in NAACCR's mission?
• Summary Stage is grouped under which abstracting section?
• What is the name of the small molecule inhibitor used for gastrointestinal stromal tumors and chronic myelogenous leukemia?
• Issues with program activity should be addressed after the survey.
• Updates to the ICD-9-CM codes are effective annually in which month?
• Major changes to registry data instituted by standard setters occur every how many years?
• Which approach declares a match only when key fields are an exact match?
• Which survival measure uses deaths from all causes and reflects overall survival?
• A common four-step improvement model used in many hospitals is described by which sequence?
• Which of the following best describes a core practice in accreditation related to quality?
• Pathology reports are considered the primary casefinding source because 95% of all reportable cases are histologically confirmed. The disease index is used as a cross-check on the completeness of reporting of pathology cases at hospitals, as well as an effective method to identify clinically diagnosed cases.
• How do reliability and reabstracting studies differ?
• Which of the following is NOT among the three major types of cancer for which evidence-based cancer control intervention strategies are currently available?
• Which factor is excluded when counting CS data items?
• Cryosurgery is the use of:
• What factor should be considered to tailor data presentation to the recipient?
• Which NPCR evaluation activity assesses data completeness and quality?
• Of the report-writing tasks listed below, which step should be taken first?
• Which registry is used for preventing accidents?
• Which statement about continuing education credits is correct?
• The term multimodality refers to:
• The primary quality-control concerns of central registries involve how complete case ascertainment is and how complete and accurate the collected data are.
• What is the title of the publication of official annual federal cancer statistics?
• Who is typically responsible to conduct research within a clinical trials group?
• What are the four components of the Determinates of Quality?
• What was the main reason data edits were developed?
• Cancer in North America (CINA) includes data on more than ______ million cancer cases.
• Which radiotherapy approach uses sealed radioactive sources placed in or near tumors?
• Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) involves the use of:
• An essential element of proper disaster recovery planning is to provide what?
• The largest cancer registry in Canada covers approximately 38% of the total population.
• Two substantial funding sources for population-based central registries are NCI/SEER and CDC/NPCR.
• Multiple myeloma is a cancer of which cells?
• What does the term 'meaningful use' have to do with the EHR environment?
• What are the two most commonly used antiandrogens for prostate cancer?
• NAACCR's structure relies on which of the following for carrying out its work?
• Edits contain the __________ to edit each field.
• Which item is identified in the Accredited Cancer Program Performance Report?
• When were the first coding rules and guidelines established?
• What does not count as an approved activity for Continuing Education (CE)?
• The date of diagnosis is often confirmed __ before a biopsy or surgical resection is performed.
• Content for educational programs is identified through what?
• The AJCC was founded by two organizations. Which pair is correct?
• If a p-value is greater than 0.05, what does it imply about statistical significance?
• In the four-step model for cancer control, what is the third step?
• Which method assesses completeness using estimations from an independent survey of cases?
• The CDC-funded NPCR Cancer Surveillance System (CSS) was authorized by the National Cancer Act in 1971.
• Which prevalence measure represents the proportion of people alive on a given day who previously had a diagnosis or the disease, regardless of how long ago the diagnosis was, or if the patient is still under treatment or is considered cured?
• Which of the following are monoclonal antibodies used in cancer therapy?
• Which change is most likely to result from technologic advances in cancer registries?
• What does IRB stand for in research oversight?
• What is most important to achieving interoperability with other data systems?
• Which of the following are types of cancer registries?
• The NCDB contains data on almost _______ million cases of reported cancer diagnoses for the period 1985 through 2007.
• Which application allows CoC-accredited cancer programs to compare patterns of care and assess their own trends of care for breast and colorectal cancers?
• In what year did the NCI begin funding SEER registries to link their data to the IHS database?
• What is the term for the effective date on or after which all reportable cases should be registered in a registry database?
• Coding standards transitions are important because they help ensure what?
• How long is the term of office for someone elected to the position of President-Elect/Secretary of the NCRA?
• The basic premise of the probabilistic system is that the higher the score, the closer the match probability.
• Which statement best describes NAACCR's mission?
• Which technology is commonly used to implement dynamic websites as a scripting language?
• A geographic area of unusually high or low occurrences of cancer is known as a __________.
• The most widely used type of radiation therapy is:
• Which statement reflects how the ACS/CoC partnership supports local prevention and early detection programs?
• Which report provides feedback to CoC-accredited cancer programs on performance to cancer quality measures?
• The meeting that jump-started the expansion of international data collection on cancer rates occurred in which year and city?
• Which statement correctly represents the null hypothesis in the height and prostate cancer risk scenario?
• Finish this sentence: Edits are the ______.
• During the annual Call for Data, NCDB requires submission of five specified years of data and also which data?
• What is the Program Recognition Committee's role in developing education?
• Which of the following are considered "passive" follow-up linkage sources?
• The organization responsible for accrediting cancer programs and setting follow-up standards is:
• Which of the following is an example of quality control of data accuracy?
• In ICD-O coding, which statement correctly describes the morphology component?
• CP3R is used to compare patterns of care and assess trends for which cancers?
• NPCR goal is to provide data to which group so that the burden of disease can be monitored and that cancer prevention and control programs can be planned?
• Which measure corresponds to unreliable information on cause of death but with accurate expected mortality from the general population for the cohort?
• What is the name of the Joint Commission's initiative to integrate performance processes into the accreditation process?
• Beginning in 2003, NCI funded SEER registries to link their data to which database to address racial misclassification in cancer registries?
• Which statement about data linking is true?
• Some central registries like the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) are not population based.
• Which statement about monitor placement is true?
• Which cancer site is ranked #3 for both new cancer cases and deaths for both men and women according to 2009 estimates?
• The American College of Surgeons (ACoS) was founded by which pair of physicians?
• Which data element is explicitly part of NCDB's pathology-related data?
• HL7 standards facilitate the transfer of which types of data between software applications used by healthcare providers?
• One of the goals for education and professional development in the NCRA is to monitor and encourage informatics role in the cancer registry profession.
• Cancer is a reportable disease, under state law, in how many states?
• Observed survival is an estimate of the probability of surviving all causes of death.
• Which two methods of matching exist?
• When a follow-up letter is returned, what date do you use to update your database as the date of last contact?
• All NPCR training materials are available with an annual subscription.
• Which statement about the Collaborative Stage System is true?
• Which of the following is an objective of the American Cancer Society/Commission on Cancer partnership?
• All of the following are true of the surveyor team except that:
• Which statement about SEER is accurate?
• The data item Collaborative Stage Tumor Extension is grouped under which abstracting section?
• Which method is used, if a birth date is different by one day in a patient record in an incoming data file, the match to the patient record in the database can still be made.
• Which survival measure corresponds to describing the observed mortality patterns in a cohort of patients?
• Determining the number of primary tumors is:
• Record consolidation rules include:
• Which statement about data standards is correct?
• The data edits process in registry data is designed to do what?
• What is the purpose of lag-time reports?
• Describe one method of creating complex logic for a report?
• Which act is commonly cited as the standard for privacy and security in healthcare information?
• Deterministic scores are usually divided into ranges indicating a match, a nonmatch, or an undetermined match.
• The American College of Surgeons (ACoS) was founded in which year?
• Which form of study based on registry data examines population-level associations rather than individuals?
• Which statement best describes follow-up standards?
• Many community hospitals participate in clinical trials as part of which National Cancer Institute program?
• The Nuremberg Code of 1947 serves as the foundation for ethical principles governing clinical research today.
• What is the relationship between meaningful use criteria and government funding for EHR adoption?
• Which two major US cancer registry programs provide data that contribute to USCS?
• One of the biggest challenges to cancer registrars will continue to be
• Which of the following is a standard pair of survival measures?
• Notes from cancer conference discussions may be discoverable in legal proceedings depending on what?
• Step assessments are a necessary part of time-motion studies.
• Case definition includes which element?
• SEER is linked to the National Longitudinal Mortality Study (NLMS) to add socioeconomic data at the individual level. What is the purpose of this linkage?
• Which of the following is a key component of a metafile?
• What type of study design compares individuals with disease to those without to assess association with exposure?
• Which statement best defines a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO)?
• SEER is an acronym used in cancer registry work. What does SEER stand for?
• What is the screening effect?
• Which of the following is a likely data source used in record linkage?
• Which is an example of a domain name?
• How many member organizations are involved with the Commission on Cancer?
• Which organization is a not-for-profit alliance of leading cancer centers devoted to patient care, research, and education?
• Linking SEER data to Medicare claims data has been used to study what aspects of cancer care?
• Which core class would you take to study Cancer Registry Operations?
• Which statement is true about ICD-10 and ICD-O-3?
• Survival information is one of the NCDB data categories.
• Which statement about the Collaborative Stage System is true?
• The NCDB uses which method to identify duplicate cases?
• Investigators have examined the use of cancer tests and procedures and the costs of cancer treatment through linking SEER data to which database?
• Which of the following statements would not be a described component of data quality in the material?
• The ASCO Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) includes use of Cancer Registry Data for hematology/oncology practices.
• Monoclonal antibodies work by which mechanism?
• What is the main function of an institutional review board (IRB)?
• In situ bladder cancer cases are included in the NPCR Cancer Surveillance System analytic file.
• The complete ICD-O code for a neoplasm contains 10 characters. What are the principal parts and what do they represent?
• In the four-step model for cancer control, what is the first step?
• Define CyberKnife radiation therapy.
• Which two organizations are responsible for the development of Edits software?
• If reliable cause of death information is available, which survival measure can be used?
• If a patient has multiple primary cancers:
• What activity measures data consistency?
• What phase of clinical trials focuses on learning how a new treatment compares with standard treatment?
• Disk encryption on laptops primarily protects data when which scenario occurs?
• HIE stands for Healthcare Information Exchange. What is its primary purpose?
• Acceptance sampling is illustrated by which example?
• What percentage of newly diagnosed cancer patients are accessioned into the National Cancer Data Base annually?
• Death clearance ensures that all persons with cancer on their death certificate are correctly ascertained by the central registry.
• Which entity is primarily responsible for protecting human subjects in research?
• An online learning environment that does not involve coordinated live interaction describes which concept?
• Which option is NOT listed as one of the three industrial quality-control methodologies?
• The largest provincial registry is Ontario and it covers about 38% of the population.
• What is necessary for CTRs to maintain their certification?
• Active follow-up may also include contacts made by hospital registrars with physician's offices.
• If the occupation code sometimes represents different timeframes (dominant lifetime, current, most recent), reliability can be improved by changing the codes applied.
• True or False: National treatment guidelines are required by the Commission on Cancer for cancer conferences in approved facilities.
• Which registry identifies combat casualties?
• Registry staff can call the patient or his/her next of kin to discuss the patient's current cancer status.
• The four-step improvement model is commonly abbreviated PDCA. Which option correctly lists the steps in order?
• Hospital-based cancer registries obtain death certificates from vital statistics government agencies in search for potentially missed cases.
• How many CS data items are there, excluding the site-specific factors?
• The minimum requirements for cancer program accreditation were first published in 1933.
• What best describes record linkage in registry operations?
• HIPAA provisions include the accuracy of record keeping.
• Cancer registries can provide measurement data to assess adherence to cancer care guidelines via which type of reporting?
• Population-based cancer registration started at the provincial/territorial level in Canada in what year?
• Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) are effective in translating research into clinical practice.
• The NCDB captures what percentage of all newly diagnosed malignant cancer cases in the United States annually?
• Which approach is used in quality data analysis to focus on the most significant problems by ranking causes?
• Which method of a designed study would be used to monitor data completeness?
• What is the purpose of the NCDB's Annual Call for Data?
• A map in which rates are averaged across multiple geographic areas to reduce noise is known as a ______ map.
• Which statement best describes the purpose of prospective case conferences?
• Which of the following is an NPCR data evaluation activity?
• What is the name of the application that allows the public and hospitals to design customized reports based on selected data items?
• What does the acronym CAM stand for?
• Which survival measure is described as the hypothetical probability of cancer survival in the absence of other causes of death?
• What are the three main categories of cancer treatment?
• In what year was Version 1 of the Collaborative Staging System released?
• Which of the following is an advantage of increasing interoperability of registry data?
• The goal of palliative treatment for cancer patients is to:
• The following are examples of active follow-up except:
• For reporting and analysis, NCDB organizes much of its data by which factor?
• Which term best describes the set of steps used to achieve high quality and cost control in patient care?
• Which registry is associated with integrating treatment management?
• The National Cancer Act of 1971 promoted the development of oncology training programs, facilities, and public education services.
• Which statement best describes the differences between prospective and retrospective case presentations?
• Passive follow-up refers to methods that do not require registry contact with hospitals, physicians, or individual cancer patients.
• What is the most important concern in coding neoplasms?
• Which committee determines the process and development of the Distinguished Member Award?
• AJCC pathologic classification is defined as:
• What is the name of the Edits feature that allows a user to note that the data are unusual, but correct?
• Which survival measure corresponds to having reliable cause of death information (e.g., from clinical trials)?
• A listing of patients seen in a hospital, both inpatient and outpatient, with ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes is called the
• Which statement is true about the survey?
• What is the purpose of inter-record edit checks?
• Which registry monitors surgical procedures?
• What is the required rate (percentage) for follow-up in programs approved by the Commission on Cancer for all eligible analytic patients diagnosed within the last 5 years or from the cancer registry reference date, whichever is shorter?
• A select group of breast cancer patients have been able to receive radiation directed to their tumor. What is the process that has been in use since 2002?
• In the logic model, poverty and literacy influence which of the following elements leading to mortality?
• Which of the following is NOT a key component of a metafile?
• A form of data analysis that incorporates information about the geographic location of events is known as
• What does NPCR stand for?
• HL7 standards primarily focus on which layer of the OSI model?
• Which committee is not represented by the Board Director of Education?
• Which of the following is a benefit to automation of the record consolidation process?
• Facilities accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer report their data to which agencies?
• United States Cancer Statistics (USCS) contains data from which sources?
• SEER has developed analytical methods for use with population-based data. True or False?
• Population-based central registries provide for calculation of incidence rates.
• Which of the following is NOT one of the six common sections of a cancer registry abstract?
• Which of the following statements about NCRA and NAACCR is true?
• Honorable discharge of the Association's responsibilities is a guideline addressed in the NCRA Professional Practice Code of Ethics.
• Record linkage serves several purposes, including linking patients with other cohorts or risk exposure records.
• Which statements about CyberKnife radiation therapy are true?
• Congress granted regulatory powers to the following agencies
• In a patient with hormone-refractory metastatic prostate cancer after hormonal therapy, which treatment could be expected?
• What is the primary federal driver for privacy protection in healthcare?
• The caBIG was sponsored by which organization?
• When presenting data, which format is most suitable for exact values across several variables?
• HTTP stands for which of the following?
• Behavior code is grouped under which abstracting section?
• A case is included on a ____________________ during the casefinding process until the appropriate hospital or physician officially reports the case.
• Should review of the cases seen within your facility by the primary site be completed when selecting cases for presentation at cancer conferences?
• What does HIPAA stand for?
• Which terminology database facilitates the exchange of clinical results such as laboratory values for care, outcomes management, and research?
• Which item is explicitly listed as an example of confidential health information that may be processed by cancer registries?
• What is the goal of the Commission on Cancer?
• In the four-step model for cancer control, what is the fourth step?
• Statistical quality-control principles include
• Which term is used for the process of describing where cancer cases occur on a map?
• Passive follow-up usually involves computerized searches of existing nonregistry files that may contain the cancer patient's name.
• What is the most common radioisotope used, and what type of cancer is it used for?
• Which format is described as focusing on a particular site?
• In 2010, registries changed the method of date transmission to improve what?
• Which survival measure requires an expected rate from the general population matched on age, sex, race, and other factors?
• Which item was NOT among the three major initiatives for the Agenda for Change?
• What is the definition of a synchronous learning environment?
• Which registry is used for making living wills accessible?
• The legislation enabling the NPCR was passed in
• Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of the key contact for survey?
• Which guideline is addressed in the NCRA Professional Practice Code of Ethics?
• Vital status is grouped under which abstracting section?
• Certified Tumor Registrars are CoC surveyors.
• Which registry is designed to provide information about services?
• Which of the following is NOT a key role for cancer registry technical staff?
• Histology is grouped under which abstracting section?
• The NAACCR committee that evaluates new data items and codes is which?
• The Health Card Number is used as the unique, lifetime identifier for health coverage in Canada.
• Which profession is not represented on the surveyor team?
• AJCC clinical classification is defined as:
• Which of these is a step that must be taken to define the data used in a report?
• Why should a probabilistic record linkage application be used to link records in a central registry?
• Edit checks and coding rules with hospital registry vendors are often
• What is the term of office for the Treasurer Junior?
• Nonanatomic factors were first added to the classifications beginning with which edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual?
• Has the National Cancer Institute (NCI) set a priority of quality of cancer care by identifying, developing, applying, and evaluating quality-of-care measures?
• Central registries are responsible for providing to hospitals a list of the mandatory and optional ICD-9-CM codes that should be included for casefinding purposes per the reporting rules of the state or region.
• Cancer Query System (CANQUES) is a web-based tool for what purpose?
• Deterministic matching requires exact match on key fields to be considered the same patient.
• Hospital standardization was one of the first activities of the newly formed American College of Surgeons (ACoS).
• What governs the operational and technical mechanisms necessary to protect personal information?
• What software calculates complete prevalence based on limited-duration prevalence statistics?
• Which of the following is NOT typically considered an important software application for registry operations?
• What is the backbone of the NCDB metafile?
• Which of the following is not listed as a type of scientific study that can be based on central registry data?
• Which statement correctly describes how the majority of central registry data is obtained?
• What type of follow-up letter is necessary?
• Which term describes research focusing on patterns of care in cancer treatment and outcomes?
• What analytic software program is used to test trends in cancer statistics for statistical significance?
• Flexible aggregation refers to the ability to:
• Which statement is true about the NCDB's role in quality measures?
• The most comprehensive, most frequently updated and used guidelines available in any area of medicine are:
• What is the lifetime health identifier used in Canada's publicly funded health insurance programs called?
• A cancer registry is mandatory for an ACoS-approved cancer program.
• SEER*DMS stands for what type of system?
• The abbreviations ONCHIT and ONC refer to which offices, respectively?
• What are the three categories of quality?
• How often should time-motion studies be performed?
• Why should central registries be concerned with registry data management systems used by reporting hospitals?
• Record consolidation is the process of combining data from two or more records for the same patient and same tumor.
• Which of the following meets the eligibility requirements for the Council on Certification?
• HL7 is a widely used data exchange standard in the healthcare industry. What does HL7 stand for?
• Diagnostic confirmation is grouped under which abstracting section?
• Which data source is NOT listed among the four data sources generally available for defining the burden of cancer?
• How many key components make up a metafile?
• NAACCR's work is done primarily by which of the following?
• A data quality management program should rely on timely, complete, and high-quality data.
• An emphasis on cancer surveillance may include which of the following?
• Which file format is widely used to publish documents on the Web because it is standardized and has a free reader?
• Death certificate information from the vital statistics system is typically used by which type of registry?
• Which program is part of the federal cancer registry efforts alongside SEER?
• A metafile is
• Which of the following is NOT listed as a format for cancer conferences?
• The gathering of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a region or community is abbreviated as what?
• The Cyber Cancer Registry provides new cancer registrars with hands-on practice in cancer registry operations.
• Which company is a major provider of virtual servers?
• Pure HTML code is static, not dynamic. Which option best reflects this statement?
• Which organization compiles the National Cancer Data Base and heads the hospital approvals program in the United States?
• In cancer case abstracting, the data item Laterality is grouped under which abstracting section?
• What is the primary benefit of a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO)?
• Which database is an example of an open-source relational database management system?
• Can both text and images be hyperlinks in Web pages?
• In transplantation, what does the term allogeneic indicate about the donor?
• Which safeguard category includes locks, physical barriers, monitoring, and visitor control?
• Provides coding instructions, code definitions, and the code options.
• The Cancer Liaison Physician is expected to report NCDB data to the cancer committee on a quarterly basis. Which of the following is a correct description of this role?
• How many standards were there in the minimum standard?
• Which step in the logic model involves measuring whether the desired changes occurred?
• The NCDB does not contain information that can be used to identify which of the following?
• Before the initial survey, the institution must do which of the following?
• Are notes of cancer conference discussion always discoverable during legal proceedings?
• Which statement is correct about autologous bone marrow transplant?
• In probabilistic matching, which statement about matching scores is true?
• Which step in the logic model involves sharing information with community organizations to target areas and plan intervention strategies?
• Which organization is involved in casefinding through disease index listings for cancer conferences?
• Which practice is beneficial to perform before NCDB file submission in addition to running the NCDB metafile?
• The first code manual used in cancer registries was published by
• The NCDB activities are funded by:
• Which type of cancer registry is primarily used to evaluate clinical care and hospital administration?
• A necessary element for a real-time reporting system is
• The acronym NOTES stands for:
• Which is the final component of the NCDB data cycle?
• The Canadian Council of Cancer Registries offers a certification program for cancer registrars.
• Name four sources of electronic data files.
• Which data source captures cancers diagnosed outside hospital settings?
• Which of the following is an example of a Web 2.0 site?
• Which registry is used for finding transplant matches?
• Name the group with members from all standard-setting organizations whose goal is data standardization.
• Which of the following is a way that edits can identify issues?
• How many provincial/territorial cancer registries cover less than a 1 million population?
• Hospitals required to submit data to the state cancer registry?
• The goals and objectives and characteristics of central registries and hospital registries are so similar, they may be considered identical.
• Which step in the NCDB data cycle includes edit checks and writing case records to the CoC's data warehouse?
• Which statement describes the CoC consultant's role?
• In the four-step model for cancer control, what is the second step?
• Population-based cancer control research is defined as which of the following?
• Death clearance is performed only by central cancer registries.
• Which statement describes a function of the NCDB data framework?
• What are the three types of bone marrow transplants?
• Which statement about AJCC pathologic classification time frame is correct?
• The Uniform Data Standards Committee (UDSC) is affiliated with which organization?
• What is the Education Committee responsible for?
• Date of initial diagnosis is grouped under which abstracting section?
• What is the outcome of record linkage?
• The first national cancer registry program was established by
• Which option is NOT one of the three main cancer treatment categories?
• The p value for the odds ratio is 0.61, therefore there is a statistical association between height and prostate cancer risk. True or False?
• Which type of cases that failed an edit would not be written to the NCDB data warehouse?
• E-path reporting refers to the capability of computers to find the shortest electronic path through the Internet's routers and servers, thereby saving money.
• When a patient has multiple primary cancers, how should cancer status be handled in the records?
• CoC Standard 2.6 revisions provide requirements for what aspect of cancer conferences?
• Which of the following is one of the six common sections of a cancer registry abstract?
• Which statement about AJCC clinical classification time frame is correct?
• ASCO guidelines are focused on:
• Hospitals are responsible to identify the list of ICD-9-CM codes that are mandatory to include on the disease index file to meet state reporting requirements.
• Which registry is used to measure the efficacy of treatment drugs?
• Cancer is a reportable disease (by law) in all Canadian provinces and territories.
• What committee is represented by the Professional Development Board Director?
• Which registry measures the effects of environmental exposure?
• Which statement accurately describes NOTES?
• Unknown values in data quality evaluation should:
• Which organization is the administrative sponsor of the AJCC?
• Which registry tracks the course of Alzheimer's disease?
• In the described case-control study, what is used as the reference date for controls?
• Which term describes research focusing on the geographic distribution of cancer across populations?
• Central cancer registry employees in North America are NAACCR members.
• Beyond the data/software package SEER*Stat, which resource is available on the SEER website for statistical inquiries?
• The National Cancer Act of 1971 led to the establishment of which program?
• Which statement best describes the projected impact of future technology on cancer registry data usage?
• Date of last contact is grouped under which abstracting section?
• Data submission to the NCDB is a requirement specified in which standard of the CoC's Cancer Programs Standards?
• What is the open source language for managing and displaying geographic data on the internet?
• Which of the following is a determining factor for setting the frequency and format of a cancer conference?
• The NAACCR data exchange record is designed primarily for what purpose?
• Registries should consider patients diagnosed or treated outside their catchment area.
• Can be used to identify the coding scheme in use when a case was originally coded.
• NLMS provides data that SEER alone cannot capture.
• Which statement best describes NAACCR's overarching purpose?
• Which of the following would NOT be used as a method for evaluating timeliness?
• The conception of The Joint Commission began with Dr. Ernest Codman.
• Which of the following is NOT an example of possible duality of interest?
• ACTUR stands for which of the following?
• Which pairing correctly identifies the current coding books for (a) mortality and (b) neoplasms?
• CS stands for Collaborative Staging System.
• Benchmark reports are best described as?
• To modify the collection of related edits that apply to multiple fields, you would adjust the
• Which of the following describes a characteristic of Summary Stage?
• The AJCC was founded by the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer Society.
• Which term matches: Consistency with which varied organizations and software systems handle the transmission of similar information?
• Which federal law governs health information privacy and portability, providing data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information?
• Which cancer vaccine is in most common use?
• Accession number is grouped under which abstracting section?
• Which types of cancer are evaluated by the clinical checks?
• Which term describes the obligation to protect patient privacy and act in patients' best interests?
• In the registry governance mapping, which registry corresponds to the case definition?
• The acronym JRM stands for which publication?
• Which radioisotope is used for thyroid cancer treatment, according to the material?
• Which of the following is included as a data category in NCDB?
• If you wanted to learn about the approved methods in providing comparable data analysis, which core class would you take?
• From which source are stem cells collected for an autologous transplant?
• Which study type is used to assess the range of answers and consistency among data abstractors using standardized charts?
• What does the acronym CPRI stand for?
• Is using national treatment guidelines required by the Commission on Cancer for a cancer conference in an approved facility?
• Hormone therapy is grouped under which abstracting section?
• The disease index is the primary casefinding source used by central registries to identify incident cases.
• Race is grouped under which abstracting section?
• Inter-record edit checks examine data items within a particular patient's abstract.
• The outcome being measured may be death due to any cause or death related to a specific cause of interest such as the cancer under study. What is this outcome commonly called?
• The four CAM modalities commonly used by cancer patients are:
• Which statement about the two follow-up rate standards is correct?
• The National Program of Cancer Registries uses which CS-derived stage?
• Which language is commonly used to create, update, and delete data in a relational database?
• The process of assigning geographic information to a cancer patient record based on the place of usual residence is known as
• During the George W. Bush administration (2001-2009), was attention paid to, and support given to, the emerging EHR environment?
• MammoSite is associated with radiation therapy for which cancer type?
• Death clearance only is an example of:
• Which software function is unique to hospital registries?
• Which of the following reports focuses on hospital benchmarking?
• A Web URL is entered into which part of a Web browser?
• Can occur when medical technology advances and some cancers are diagnosed earlier in their progression than in the past.
• A 44-year-old woman with HER2-positive breast cancer after surgery would most likely receive which combination of therapies?
• Which of the following is an example of confidential health information processed by cancer registries?
• Which transplant type uses an identical twin as the donor?
• What does SAR stand for in data collection?
• Access to SEER public-use data requires what?
• Which organization is NOT listed as helping to develop the topography and morphology codes?
• Which statement is true about AJCC membership?
• Which statement describes the independent case ascertainment method?
• A Pareto diagram helps identify areas that need attention by ranking them.
• Radiofrequency ablation is most frequently used for the treatment of which cancers?
• What do you call a government agency or court writ that has authority to compel the production of evidence?
• Which item is NOT listed as an example of confidential health information processed by cancer registries?
• What is Google Chrome primarily?
• The topography (primary site) component is how many characters long?
• Radiation therapy is useful in preventing what type of recurrence?
• Which statement best describes how data completeness is assessed?
• Well-documented cancer clusters, or hot spots, have been identified in more than 40 states.
• Which two adrenocorticoids are most commonly used?
• Which use applies to the SAR in practice?
• Quality of performance is the degree to which the final product/service will meet the needs of the consumer.
• NAACCR's first standards volume in 1994 identified the groups agreeing to the standards. Which list reflects those groups?
• A probabilistic matching algorithm creates a match score based on the mathematical likelihood that identical or similar field values indicate a match.
• Who is responsible to the clinical trials group for conducting research?
• What is the main aim of data standardization in cancer registries?
• When is total body irradiation (TBI) used?
• Residency at diagnosis refers to the patient’s usual residence at the time of diagnosis. Which statement is true?
• What is the purpose of a recoding audit?
• LOINC stands for which of the following?
• What term refers to a unique numeric identifier assigned to machines on the Internet or an intranet?
• What advantage does SEER*DMS provide to central cancer registry operations?
• The Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons requires accredited cancer programs to meet which follow-up standard?
• Collaborative Staging was originally developed to translate between which staging systems?
• Types of cancer registries that can receive CoC approval?
• Which statement describes a feature of SEER's public-use data?
• Population-based cancer control research aims to create or enhance interventions that, in combination with biomedical approaches, reduce cancer risk, incidence, morbidity and mortality.
• Which data source is used by hospital-based registries to capture cases?
• Which of the following is NOT part of the NCDB data cycle?
• HL7 is a data format used for reporting pathology report text information electronically to central registries.
• AJCC staging system can be categorized as:
• Which item is NOT listed as a source for selecting cases for presentation at cancer conferences?
• Web address is a synonym of URL. Which of the following best reflects this statement?
• In which publication would you typically find an abstract/article about developing a trauma registry?
• Which of the following is NOT one of the four components of the Determinates of Quality?
• Which of the following is an example of active follow-up methods?
• Which organization provides the educational opportunities for cancer registrars?
• What is the central advisory panel that guides the NCDB's work?
• What is the difference between quality control and quality assurance?
• NAACCR set criteria for the certification of central cancer registries that are out of reach for most cancer registries.
• Who is ultimately responsible for developing a cancer conference plan in a CoC-approved facility?
• What organization compiles data for Cancer in North America?
• In what year was the first edition of the Cancer Staging Manual published?
• The Commission on Cancer comprises how many member organizations?
• Secondary prevention?
• Clinical trials are the first step in the research process of moving scientific research from the laboratory to treatments for people.
• Which of the following is NOT a principal part of the ICD-O code?
• One of the education goals for NCRA is to deliver basic and advanced (post-CTR) education opportunities.
• Which of the following is NOT true about the Accredited Cancer Program Performance Report?
• Which of the following is NOT listed as a challenge to standardizing data edits?
• Ethnicity data are a standard data element in the Canadian Cancer Registry.
• Where are standard data edits applied?
• Which term describes descriptions of key elements in the process of care that should be accomplished to achieve maximum quality and maximum cost?
• What term describes patient identification information and detailed medical histories processed by cancer registries?
• Phase IV trials are used to further evaluate the long-term safety and effectiveness of a treatment.
• Which matching method follows this rule: 'A match cannot be made if one data file is missing a critical data field'?
• What does the metafile contain?
• Which action best reflects professionalism?
• Which statement best describes the survey's focus on outcomes and care quality?
• Active follow-up refers to someone initiating direct contact with patients.
• Mortality coding refers to coding which of the following?
• ACTUR acronym is used in cancer data systems; which option correctly identifies its expansion?
• Which statement best describes the primary role of the Cancer Liaison Physician?