COC Questions and CORRECT Answers 2024 Update

states that each required member of the Cancer Committee must attend 75% of the meetings per Program Standards Manual 2012 Version 1.2.1. (This percentage had been 50% in prior versions of the Program Standards Manual, Versions 1.1 and 1.2.) - Standard 1.3 states that the required percentage of patients accrued to cancer-related clinical trials each year is determined by the facility's cancer program category. - Standard 1.9 states that all staff must attend one educational program other than cancer conferences - Standard 1.11 To receive commendation, ? requires that the cancer committee develop and distribute a report on either patient outcomes or on program outcomes on an annual basis. - Standard 1.12 requires that the cancer committee develop and distribute an annual report on either patient outcomes or on program outcomes. - Standard 1.12 The standard relates to the use of CAP protocols in reporting required data elements in pathology reports for surgically treated patients. - Standard 2.1. states that the CAP protocol must be used to report required data items on 90% of eligible pathology reports. - Standard 2.1 requires that oncology nursing care be provided by nurses with specialized knowledge and skills. Oncology nurse certification, while not required, is strongly encouraged. - Standard 2.2 requires that the competency of oncology nurses be evaluated on an annual basis (yearly). - Standard 2.2 the submission window for all 2013 cases to the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) opens January 1, 2015 and closes January 31, 2015 (due by midnight Central time). - Per Standard 5.6 states that resubmitted data starting from January 1, 2003 forward must meet the established quality criteria and resubmission deadline specified in the Call for Data. - Standard 5.6 states the quality improvement coordinator reports annually to the cancer committee. The standard also indicates a cancer registrar who is abstracting cases cannot be selected to fulfill this role. - Standard 1.2 states within the paragraph under Cancer Registry Quality Coordinator that a cancer registrar who is abstracting can be selected to fill this role. The standard also indicates that the Cancer Registry Quality Coordinator uses the registry data as a basis to monitor the quality of patient care. - Standard 1.2 states that goals are not to be a restatement of a CoC standard because compliance with a standard is required. While new programmatic and clinical goals are to be established annually, these goals do not need to be completed within the year and may be carried forward into the next year. - Standard 1.5 states the cancer committee must establish, implement, and monitor at least one clinical goal related to cancer care annually. - Standard 1.5 states that activities related to goals do not have to be completed each year, but a report of activities related to those goals must be documented in the cancer committee minutes at least twice a year. - Standard 1.5 requires that the cancer committee annually establish and implement a plan to evaluate the cancer registry data. - Standard 1.6 states that community outreach programs (prevention or screening/early detection) must be monitored and reported to the cancer committee annually. - Standard 1.8