2024 CTR Exam 1 - 1. Which of the following is a permissible disc...

2024 CTR Exam 1 Complete Questions & Answers (Solved) 100% Correct

• Which of the following is a permissible disclosure of confidential patient

information from the cancer registry?

• to a facility not involved with the patient's care
• to the pt
• to another registry for f/u purposes
• to the pt's attorney

Answer: To another registry for f/u purposes

• What is a source of ca incidence & survival data from pop-based ca registries

covering ~28% of US pop?

• ACoS CoC
• CDC NPCR
• NAACCR
• NCI SEER program

Answer: NCI SEER program

3. Medical data that are combined w/o pt identifiers are:

• Aggregate data
• Confidential data
• Pop-based data
• Unusable data

Answer: Aggregate data

• Which of the following information must healthcare organizations protect?
• employee information
• information about the organization
• individually identifiable pt health information
• all the above

Answer: All the above

• Terrie Tumor Registrar ompletes a productivity sheet at the end of each day listing

tasks completed that day. This is a form of:

• budget
• time motion study
• step assessment
• work flow chart 1 / 4

Answer: Time motion study

• The use of password to verify that a person is who they purport to be before they are

granted access to confidential data is:

• audit trail
• encryption
• firewall
• user authentication

Answer: User authentication

• All of the state ca registries in the US are required to submit their data to:
• the CDC National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
• the NCI SEER Program
• Either CDC/NPCR or NCI/SEER
• None of the above

Answer: Eiither CDC/NPCR or NCI/SEER

• Caitlin Cancer Registrar is the cancer registry manager. She received a budget

for the registry from the office of the facility's chief financial officer This type of

budget is:

• bottom-up
• capital
• operating
• top-down

Answer: top-down

• The organization that formulates & publishes systems to classify ca to be used

for selecting effective tx, determining prognosis, and evaluating ca control measures

in the:

• AJCC
• NAACCR
• CoC
• SEER PROGRAM

Answer: AJCC

• Danielle Data Manager is preparing to submit data from the hospital cancer

registry to the state CR. What is used to facilitate the data exchange?

• Firewall
• NAACCR data exchange record layout
• Record linkage 2 / 4

• SEER program

Answer: NAACCR data exchange record layout

• The CP of the medical center on XYZ Air Force Base submits their cases to the

Automated Central Tumor Registry (ACTUR) & to the NCDB. The CP has a:

• Hospital/institution-based ca registry
• Network ca registry
• non-pop based cancer registry
• pop-based central cancer registry

Answer: Hospital/institution-based ca registry

• The ability for a cancer registry to incorporate electronic data from an external

source into the registry and the ability for external recipients to incorporate registry

data for their use is:

• interoperability
• not permitted
• semantic
• syntactic

Answer: interoperability

• What type of CR is designated to determine cancer patterns among various pop,

monitor ca trends over time, and evaluate ca control efforts?

• familial
• hospital-based
• pop-based
• specialty

Answer: pop-based

• What is the nationwide onc outcomes database for accrediated ca pro- grams in

the US?

• GLOBOCAN
• NCDB
• NPCR
• SEER Program

Answer: NCDB

15. HIPAA and other regulations give pts the right to:

• Review any of the organization's business records on them
• Review central ca registry information on them
• Review information on them ca registry 3 / 4

• Review their own medical records kept by the organization

Answer: Review their own medical records kept by the organization

• The resource for detailed specifications and codes for each data item in the data

exhange record layout is:

• Cancer program standards
• FORDS
• NAACCR Volume II Data Standards and Data Dictionary
• SEER Program Coding & Staging Manual

Answer: NAACCR Volume II Data Standards & Data Dictionary

17. Lymph-vascular invasion is the presence of tumor cells in:

• Distant mets sites
• LN(s)
• Lymphatic channels or blood vessels
• The thymus

Answer: Lymphatic channels or blood vessels

• The final dx on the path report documents Nottingham score of 8. The primary

site is most likely:

• Brain
• Breast
• Kidney
• Skin

Answer: Breast

19. Freestanding path labs may be a casefinding source for a:

• Community hospital cancer program
• NCDB
• Network ca program
• State central cancer registry

Answer: State central ca registry

• Pt admitted to hospital on 2/1/16 w/ congestive heart failure. On 2/2/16 the pt

had a CT that showed a mass in the lung, probably malig. On 2/3/16 the pt had a partial lobectomy. Path report documented RUL mass, adenoca, confined to the lung. What is the date of first contact?

• 2/1/16
• 2/2/16
• 2/3/16
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