Data Quality Assurance

When a data submitter sends a data file to Central Registry XX, registry staff review every 5th record in the file and compare coded data items to text on abstract. This is:

What is used to resolve incorrect coding or incongruity between codes?

If primary site code entered is C54.9 (corpus uteri) and sex code is 1 (male), what type of edit will be generated?

What type of study evaluates the registry's completeness of case incidence reporting?

Mary is the cancer data manager at an integrated network cancer program. She manages 10 abstractors and wants to evaluate the consistency of their abstracting. What type of study should she perform?

Quality control activities in the cancer registry are performed to evaluate:

Central Cancer Registry AA has a tumor record for John Smith with a lung primary. A second tumor record is submitted to Central Cancer Registry AA for John Smith with a colon primary. The records match, but a 1 year difference in date of birth is identified. This was identified by:

What needs to be provided to data collectors as part of the registry quality control program to ensure that change is affected?

Central Cancer Registry LNMOP annually performs casefinding audits at 20% of the reporting facilities in the state. The audits are performed to evaluate:

All case abstractors in facilities that submitted cancer data to the state central registry were required to abstract the same 5 cancer cases as part of a reliability study. This is a way to evaluate what aspect of data quality?

A 10 percent sample of abstracts from Hospital A for a specified time period was selected and specified data items were coded by central registry quality control staff using the text provided on the abstract and compared to the codes on the submitted abstract. What type of quality control procedure is this?

The central registry from state DD performed a study in hospital X. A sample of abstracts was selected. Central registry staff abstracted the cases using original source documents from the facility, and the abstracts completed by the central registry were compared to the original abstracts. This type of study is:

What edit component is the set of instructions needed to edit data?

What sends notifications of treatment expectations and year-to-date concordance with performance measures to ensure that the program’s cancer patients are receiving evidenced-based cancer care?

What is quality assurance?

Which of the following is not part of the quality control plan?

Methods of review may include not which of the following?

When resolving conflicts in registry data, you should not:

What are not potential reasons for the data to be coded as unknown?

The quality control plan activities for evaluation should not include:

Criteria for reviews does not include:

Some activities for evaluation should include:

Minimum quality benchmarks include:

The scope of evaluation should not be based on:

Death clearance only is an example of:

An example of acceptance sampling is:

Timeliness is critical to a registry quality-control process. The method for evaluating timeliness are:

A formal procedure to check data accuracy against source documents is called:

According to the CoC Standard, the maximum number of cases to be evaluated, annually, are:

Routine and automated edit checks should be applied to ________% of a registry's cases.

The quality control plan does the following:

A follow-up rate of ___% is maintained for all eligible analytic cases diagnosed within the last 5 years or from the cancer registry reference date, whichever is shorter.

According to the Commission on Cancer the maximum number of cancer registry cases that need to have quality control is:

SEER central registries are required to provide complete counts of new cases for a calendar year within ____months of the end of that calendar year.

For all eligible analytic cases, a follow-up rate of ________% is maintained from the cancer registry reference date.

The CoC requires that 90% of cases be abstracted within _____ months of the first date of contact.

The NAACCR standard states that the central cancer registry should contain at least 95% of the expected cases of reportable cancer occurring in residents within _________________ months of the close of the diagnosis year.

A major activity of NAACCR is:

The establishment and implementation of a plan to annually evaluate the quality of the cancer registry data and activity is the responsibility of the:

The system to ensure accurate data collection in the cancer registry is known as:

A computer data edit:

Central registry monitoring of facility case completeness should be performed:

Which of the following is responsible for establishing the quality improvement priorities of the cancer program and for monitoring the effectiveness of quality improvement activities?

An important element of a quality control program is:

A characteristic of data quality is:

The quality control plan does the following:

Methods to obtain follow-up information include, but are not limited to:

Each year CoC accredited cancer programs must submit complete data for all requested analytic cases to the:

Every year the cancer committee establishes

A follow-up rate of ___% is maintained for all eligible analytic cases diagnosed within the last 5 years or from the cancer registry reference date, whichever is shorter.