Exam (elaborations) SEER CTR

SEER CTR Exam – Operations VERIFIED SOLUTIONS Examples of population-based registries are A. National Cancer Data Base. B. Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS). C. Both (a) and (b) D. Neither (a) nor (b) - ANSWER D. Neither (a) nor (b) Examples of nonanalytic cases for a typical hospital registry include A. Autopsy only cases. B. Cases diagnosed elsewhere and provided only palliative care in lieu of first course treatment at your facility. C. Both (a) and (b) D. Neither (a) nor (b) - ANSWER A. Autopsy only cases. Non-analytic cases for a facility are defined as cases who were diagnosed and received all of first course therapy elsewhere prior to the date of referral to the facility. These cases include patients treated for recurrence or progression of disease only, patients for whom the facility provided only a treatment plan or a second opinion regarding the diagnosis and/or treatment options available, as well as patients diagnosed at autopsy, per death certificate, or who only had pathology slides read at the facility. Analytic cases - ANSWER those cases that were diagnosed at the reporting hospital/ facility or received any first course treatment at facility class of case 00-22 Which organization provides the guidelines used by central registries to determine the residence of the patient at the time of diagnosis? A. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program B. National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) C. U.S. Postal Service D. U.S. Census Bureau - ANSWER D. U.S. Census Bureau Rules must also be established to determine who the members of that population are. The goal is to have the central registry use the same rules to establish a patient's residency at the time of diagnosis as the rules used by the Census Bureau in counting the population. In addition, a population-based registry must have rules for determining residency of part-time residents, prisoners, institutionalized persons, homeless persons, military personnel, and students. Updating casefinding programs that use either the ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM disease indices to identify potential reportable cases should be done annually and made effective for admissions during which month? A. January B. June C. October D. December - ANSWER C. October Updates to the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM coding manuals are done annually in October. Codes from these manuals are used to generate a disease index that identifies the diseases and conditions diagnosed in patients. To ensure that all reportable cases are included in the disease index requested from facilities, it is important to review and update required codes needed by the registry on an annual basis. Casefinding timeliness in a central registry is determined by the A. Planned use of the data. B. Agency(ies) to which the central registry reports. C. Both (a) and (b) D. Neither (a) nor (b) - ANSWER C. Both (a) and (b) The time frame for casefinding and reporting for central registries is determined by both the planned use of the data and the agency to which the central registry reports.