NCRA Domain I: Casefinding questions with correct answers

System for locating every patient who is diagnosed and/or treated with a reportable cancer at a facility - Answer Casefinding All registries must perform casefinding to ensure all applicable cases are reported. Almost all malignant cancer cases and some benign central nervous system tumors(brain) are required to be reported to the state. Malignant cancers that are not reportable are ______________________ and _______________________________. - Answer squamous cell and basal cell cancer of the skin and in-situ carcinoma of the cervix. A _____________ or even some _________________ may require the registry to report other benign, borderline, and uncertain behavior cases. Examples include carcinoid tumors of the appendix and borderline ovarian tumors. - Answer hospital cancer committee; central cancer registries. Registries use two types of casefinding methods: - Answer Active and Passive ____________ casefinding involves registry personnell retrieving source documents, such as pathology reports or radiation oncology reports. This also includes running reports from the Health Information Management(HIM) (medical record) department indices, which include all diagnostic codes and procedure codes assigned to every patient in the facility. The benefit of ____________casefinding is that this method is more thorough and accurate than ______________________ casefinding. Registry personnel have knowledge of criteria and terminology to recognize reportable cases. - Answer Active; active; passive ______________________ casefinding occur