CTR EXAM 2023 /381 Questions
And Answers (A+)
Quiz :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 the pt
c. to another registry for f/u purposes
d. to the pt's attorney - √Answer :To another registry for f/u
purposes
Quiz :What is a source of ca incidence & survival data from
pop-based ca registries covering ~28% of US pop?
a. ACoS CoC
b. CDC NPCR
c. NAACCR
d. NCI SEER program - √Answer :NCI SEER program
Quiz :Medical data that are combined w/o pt identifiers are:
a. Aggregate data
b. Confidential data
c. Pop-based data
d. Unusable data - √Answer :Aggregate data
Quiz :Which of the following information must healthcare
organizations protect?
a. employee information
b. information about the organization
c. individually identifiable pt health information
d. all the above - √Answer :All the above
Quiz :Terrie Tumor Registrar ompletes a productivity sheet at
the end of each day listing tasks completed that day. This is a
form of:
a. budget
b. time motion study
c. step assessment
,d. work flow chart - √Answer :Time motion study
Quiz :The use of 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 - √Answer :User authetication
Quiz :All of the state ca registries in the US 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 o fthe above - √Answer :Eiither CDC/NPCR or
NCI/SEER
Quiz :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 - √Answer :top-down
Quiz :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:
a. AJCC
b. NAACCR
c. CoC
d. SEER PROGRAM - √Answer :AJCC
Quiz :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?
,a. Firewall
b. NAACCR data exchange record layout
c. Record linkage
d. SEER program - √Answer :NAACCR data exchange record
layout
Quiz :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:
a. Hospital/institution-based ca registry
b. Network ca registry
c. non-pop based cancer registry
d. pop-based central cancer registry - √Answer
:Hospital/institution-based ca registry
Quiz :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 - √Answer :interoperability
Quiz :What type of CR is designated to determine cancer
patterns among various pop, monitor ca trends over time, and
evaluate ca control efforts?
a. familial
b. hospital-based
c. pop-based
d. specialty - √Answer :pop-based
Quiz :What is the nationwide onc outcomes database for
accrediated ca programs in the US?
a. GLOBOCAN
b. NCDB
c. NPCR
d. SEER Program - √Answer :NCDB
, Quiz :HIPAA and other regulations give pts the right to:
a. Review any of the organization's business records on them
b. Review central ca registry information on them
c. Review information on them ca registry
d. Review their own medical records kept by the organization -
√Answer :Review their own medical records kept by the
organization
Quiz :The resource ffor detailed specifications and codes for
each data item in the data exhange record layout is:
a. Cancer program standards
b. FORDS
c. NAACCR Volume II Data Standards and Data Dictionary
d. SEER Program Coding & Staging Manual -
√Answer :NAACCR Volume II Data Standards & Data
Dictionary
Quiz :Lymph-vascular invasion is the presence of tumor cells
in:
a. Distant mets sites
b. LN(s)
c. Lymphatic channels or blood vessels
d. The thymus - √Answer :Lymphatic channels or blood
vessels
Quiz :The final dx on the path report documents Nottingham
score of 8. The primary site is most likely:
a. Brain
b. Breast
c. Kidney
d. Skin - √Answer :Breast
Quiz :Freestanding path labs may be a casefinding source for
a:
a. Community hospital cancer program
b. NCDB
And Answers (A+)
Quiz :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 the pt
c. to another registry for f/u purposes
d. to the pt's attorney - √Answer :To another registry for f/u
purposes
Quiz :What is a source of ca incidence & survival data from
pop-based ca registries covering ~28% of US pop?
a. ACoS CoC
b. CDC NPCR
c. NAACCR
d. NCI SEER program - √Answer :NCI SEER program
Quiz :Medical data that are combined w/o pt identifiers are:
a. Aggregate data
b. Confidential data
c. Pop-based data
d. Unusable data - √Answer :Aggregate data
Quiz :Which of the following information must healthcare
organizations protect?
a. employee information
b. information about the organization
c. individually identifiable pt health information
d. all the above - √Answer :All the above
Quiz :Terrie Tumor Registrar ompletes a productivity sheet at
the end of each day listing tasks completed that day. This is a
form of:
a. budget
b. time motion study
c. step assessment
,d. work flow chart - √Answer :Time motion study
Quiz :The use of 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 - √Answer :User authetication
Quiz :All of the state ca registries in the US 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 o fthe above - √Answer :Eiither CDC/NPCR or
NCI/SEER
Quiz :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 - √Answer :top-down
Quiz :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:
a. AJCC
b. NAACCR
c. CoC
d. SEER PROGRAM - √Answer :AJCC
Quiz :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?
,a. Firewall
b. NAACCR data exchange record layout
c. Record linkage
d. SEER program - √Answer :NAACCR data exchange record
layout
Quiz :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:
a. Hospital/institution-based ca registry
b. Network ca registry
c. non-pop based cancer registry
d. pop-based central cancer registry - √Answer
:Hospital/institution-based ca registry
Quiz :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 - √Answer :interoperability
Quiz :What type of CR is designated to determine cancer
patterns among various pop, monitor ca trends over time, and
evaluate ca control efforts?
a. familial
b. hospital-based
c. pop-based
d. specialty - √Answer :pop-based
Quiz :What is the nationwide onc outcomes database for
accrediated ca programs in the US?
a. GLOBOCAN
b. NCDB
c. NPCR
d. SEER Program - √Answer :NCDB
, Quiz :HIPAA and other regulations give pts the right to:
a. Review any of the organization's business records on them
b. Review central ca registry information on them
c. Review information on them ca registry
d. Review their own medical records kept by the organization -
√Answer :Review their own medical records kept by the
organization
Quiz :The resource ffor detailed specifications and codes for
each data item in the data exhange record layout is:
a. Cancer program standards
b. FORDS
c. NAACCR Volume II Data Standards and Data Dictionary
d. SEER Program Coding & Staging Manual -
√Answer :NAACCR Volume II Data Standards & Data
Dictionary
Quiz :Lymph-vascular invasion is the presence of tumor cells
in:
a. Distant mets sites
b. LN(s)
c. Lymphatic channels or blood vessels
d. The thymus - √Answer :Lymphatic channels or blood
vessels
Quiz :The final dx on the path report documents Nottingham
score of 8. The primary site is most likely:
a. Brain
b. Breast
c. Kidney
d. Skin - √Answer :Breast
Quiz :Freestanding path labs may be a casefinding source for
a:
a. Community hospital cancer program
b. NCDB
