CTR Registry Operations & Management 3

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Gold Certified

Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Non-analytic cases (class of case 00)

Answer

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.

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

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.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

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

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CTR Registry Operations & Management 3