CTR exam quizzes with A+Answers 2024
Which of the following is a permissible disclosure of confidential patient information from
the cancer registry?
a. To a facility not involved with the patient's care
b. To another registry for follow-up purposes
c. To the patient
d. To the patient's attorney - ANS-b. To another registry for follow-up purposes
What is a source of cancer incidence and survival data from population-based cancer
registries covering approximately 34.6% of U.S. population?
a. ACoS CoC
b. CDC NPCR
c. NAACCR
d. NCI SEER Program - ANS-d. NCI SEER Program
1. Medical data that are combined without patient identifiers are:
a. Aggregate data
b. Confidential data
c. Population-based data
d. Unusable data - ANS-a. Aggregate data
Which of the following information must healthcare organizations protect?
a. Employee information
b. Individually identifiable patient health information
c. Information about the organization
d. All of the above - ANS-d. All of the above
Terrie Tumor Registrar completes a productivity sheet at the end of each day listing
tasks completed that day. This is a form of:
a. Budget
b. Step assessment
c. Time motion study
d. Work flow chart - ANS-c. Time motion study
The use of a password to verify that a person is who they purport to be before they are
,granted access to confidential data is:
a. Audit trail
b. Encryption
c. Firewall
d. User authentication - ANS-d. User authentication
All of the state cancer registries in the United States are required to submit their data to:
a. The CDC National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
b. The NCI SEER Program
c. Either CDC/NPCR or NCI/SEER
d. None of the above - ANS-c. Either 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: a.
Bottom-up
b. Capital
c. Operating
d. Top-down - ANS-d. Top-down
Danielle Data Manager is preparing to submit data from the hospital cancer registry to
the state central registry. What is used to facilitate the data exchange? a. Firewall
b. NAACCR data exchange record layout
c. Record linkage
d. Signed permission to release information - ANS-b. NAACCR data exchange record
layout
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:
a. Interoperability
b. Not permitted
c. Semantic
d. Syntactic - ANS-a. Interoperability
What type of cancer registry is designed to determine cancer patterns among various
populations, monitor cancer trends over time, and evaluate cancer control efforts? a.
Familial
b. Hospital-based
c. Population-based
, d. Specialty - ANS-c. Population-based
What is the nationwide oncology outcomes database for accredited cancer programs in
the United States?
a. GLOBOCAN
b. National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
c. National Program of Cancer Registries
SEER Program - ANS-b. National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
HIPAA and other regulations give patients the right to:
a. Review any of the organization's business records on them
b. Review central cancer registry information on them
c. Review information on them in the cancer registry
d. Review their own medical records kept by the organization - ANS-d. Review their own
medical records kept by the organization
Which of the following organizations develop cancer clinical practice guidelines?
a. ASCO
b. NAACCR
c. NCCN
d. A and C
e. B and C - ANS-d. A and C
Central registry XY manually evaluating every 10th abstract from each batch of
abstracts submitted to them by reporting hospitals. This process is: a.
Casefinding
b. Reabstracting
c. Record consolidation
d. Visual review - ANS-d. Visual review
A state central registry received multiple abstracts for the same patient with the same
tumor. A new abstract was created using the best information from each of the multiple
abstracts. What is this process?
a. Death clearance
b. Patient linkage
c. Record consolidation
d. Tumor linkage - ANS-c. Record consolidation
The Los Angeles County Cancer Surveillance Program collects and analyzes
Which of the following is a permissible disclosure of confidential patient information from
the cancer registry?
a. To a facility not involved with the patient's care
b. To another registry for follow-up purposes
c. To the patient
d. To the patient's attorney - ANS-b. To another registry for follow-up purposes
What is a source of cancer incidence and survival data from population-based cancer
registries covering approximately 34.6% of U.S. population?
a. ACoS CoC
b. CDC NPCR
c. NAACCR
d. NCI SEER Program - ANS-d. NCI SEER Program
1. Medical data that are combined without patient identifiers are:
a. Aggregate data
b. Confidential data
c. Population-based data
d. Unusable data - ANS-a. Aggregate data
Which of the following information must healthcare organizations protect?
a. Employee information
b. Individually identifiable patient health information
c. Information about the organization
d. All of the above - ANS-d. All of the above
Terrie Tumor Registrar completes a productivity sheet at the end of each day listing
tasks completed that day. This is a form of:
a. Budget
b. Step assessment
c. Time motion study
d. Work flow chart - ANS-c. Time motion study
The use of a password to verify that a person is who they purport to be before they are
,granted access to confidential data is:
a. Audit trail
b. Encryption
c. Firewall
d. User authentication - ANS-d. User authentication
All of the state cancer registries in the United States are required to submit their data to:
a. The CDC National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR)
b. The NCI SEER Program
c. Either CDC/NPCR or NCI/SEER
d. None of the above - ANS-c. Either 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: a.
Bottom-up
b. Capital
c. Operating
d. Top-down - ANS-d. Top-down
Danielle Data Manager is preparing to submit data from the hospital cancer registry to
the state central registry. What is used to facilitate the data exchange? a. Firewall
b. NAACCR data exchange record layout
c. Record linkage
d. Signed permission to release information - ANS-b. NAACCR data exchange record
layout
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:
a. Interoperability
b. Not permitted
c. Semantic
d. Syntactic - ANS-a. Interoperability
What type of cancer registry is designed to determine cancer patterns among various
populations, monitor cancer trends over time, and evaluate cancer control efforts? a.
Familial
b. Hospital-based
c. Population-based
, d. Specialty - ANS-c. Population-based
What is the nationwide oncology outcomes database for accredited cancer programs in
the United States?
a. GLOBOCAN
b. National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
c. National Program of Cancer Registries
SEER Program - ANS-b. National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
HIPAA and other regulations give patients the right to:
a. Review any of the organization's business records on them
b. Review central cancer registry information on them
c. Review information on them in the cancer registry
d. Review their own medical records kept by the organization - ANS-d. Review their own
medical records kept by the organization
Which of the following organizations develop cancer clinical practice guidelines?
a. ASCO
b. NAACCR
c. NCCN
d. A and C
e. B and C - ANS-d. A and C
Central registry XY manually evaluating every 10th abstract from each batch of
abstracts submitted to them by reporting hospitals. This process is: a.
Casefinding
b. Reabstracting
c. Record consolidation
d. Visual review - ANS-d. Visual review
A state central registry received multiple abstracts for the same patient with the same
tumor. A new abstract was created using the best information from each of the multiple
abstracts. What is this process?
a. Death clearance
b. Patient linkage
c. Record consolidation
d. Tumor linkage - ANS-c. Record consolidation
The Los Angeles County Cancer Surveillance Program collects and analyzes
