CTR Practice Exam Questions and Correct Answers

CTR Practice Exam Questions and Correct Answers Specialty Cancer Registry can collect data on - ANSWER Specific Facilities and Familial Cancers Hospital and Pop based cancer reg collect cancer data to - ANSWER Be aggregated by federal agencies caBIG - ANSWER Sponsors by NCI; network that allows constituents in cancer industry to share data and knowledge NCRA - ANSWER Award CTR NBCR - ANSWER National board cancer registrars; establish exam content, test admin, est qualifications for certification Hyperlink - ANSWER Electronic doc that links to whole doc Real time reporting - ANSWER Needs availability of data source streams from key depts Zero based budget - ANSWER Line by line Congress granted regulatory powers to - ANSWER SEER and NPCR Cancer registry must keep a record of disclosure for - ANSWER Six years Professional Development is - ANSWER Self-motivated and self-directed Professional development - ANSWER Networking, volunteerism, mentoring, professionalism Security management planning involves - ANSWER Evaluating the flow of data through the organization Disciplinary actions for breaches of confidentiality are - ANSWER Defined in policies and procedures LAN - ANSWER Group of comp in close proximity Probabilistic linkage application - ANSWER Takes into account a wide range of potential identifiers to link data sets in a statistically justifiable way; most often used by central reg Deterministic linkage application - ANSWER Generates link based on the number of individual identifiers that match amount data sets; simple Worm - ANSWER Travels comp to comp Virus - ANSWER Code loaded onto a comp without ur knowledge Trojan horse - ANSWER Hides as benign application; do not replicate themselves Record Linkage - ANSWER Linking info from external data sources, such as death certificates, with existing records Record Consolidation - ANSWER Linking multiple records for same primary cancer Semantic Interoperability - ANSWER Data having common meaning Syntactic Interoperability - ANSWER Same coding system across organizations Edit programs promote - ANSWER Data standardization Single field edit - ANSWER One data field at a time Inter-field edits - ANSWER Compare code for one data item with codes recorded for other data items