Registry Operations & Management Flashcards

Which NAACCR standard level requires the most complete set of data items for a cancer registry abstract?

Answer: Gold Certified

NAACCR Gold Certification represents the highest completeness standard, requiring the greatest number of fully populated required data items.

A registrar is calculating the follow-up rate for a CoC annual report. Which cases are EXCLUDED from the follow-up rate denominator?

Answer: Non-analytic cases (class of case 00)

Non-analytic cases (class of case 00) are excluded from follow-up rate calculations because they were not initially diagnosed or treated at the reporting facility.

When abstracting a case from a facility that is part of a health system, the registrar should assign class of case 20 when:

Answer: The patient was initially diagnosed at another facility and received all treatment at the reporting facility

Class of case 20 applies when the initial diagnosis was made elsewhere but all or part of first-course treatment was administered at the reporting facility.

Which of the following best describes 'consolidation' in the context of a central cancer registry?

Answer: Merging records of the same patient from multiple reporting facilities into one registry record

Consolidation in central registries involves linking and merging multiple abstracts for the same patient-tumor combination submitted by different facilities.

A state central registry receives data from a hospital that routinely under-reports cases. The best metric to identify this problem is:

Answer: Observed-to-expected (O/E) case ratio compared to regional incidence rates

Comparing observed case counts to expected counts based on regional population incidence rates reveals facilities with systematic under-reporting.

In registry management, 'timeliness' is most commonly measured by tracking the time from:

Answer: Date of diagnosis to date of abstract completion

Registry timeliness is standardly measured as the interval from the patient's date of diagnosis to the date the abstract is completed and entered into the database.

Which type of cancer registry collects data from an entire defined geographic population regardless of where treatment occurs?

Answer: Population-based registry

Population-based registries capture all cancer cases occurring within a defined geographic area, providing incidence data representative of that population.