Unit Review (Casefinding Sources)
Here is what we have learned from this unit:
- There are many casefinding sources; Reliance on multiple
sources is necessary to obtain a complete description of
the patient's cancer experience.
- Daily or weekly review of all inpatient and outpatient
admissions and discharges facilitates quick casefinding
process since these documents present clinical or pathological
diagnosis of cancer.
- Using disease indices as the source documents in casefinding,
the registrar must determine what the hospital-specific
guidelines are for coding certain diagnoses to ensure the
accuracy of the codes used to identify cancer cases in the
hospital.
- The accuracy of surgery schedules as a source of casefinding
depends on appropriate documentation of orders and diagnoses
at the time of surgery.
- One of the methods of casefinding in the pathology department
is to review a computer listing of coded final histologic
diagnoses.
- If the pathology department is not computerized or does
not use ICD-O codes to code histology, the registrar must
manually review each pathology report.
- Both computerized and manual methods of reviewing pathology
reports must include a way to track reports to ensure that
each report has been included in the registrar's review.
- Other casefinding sources include cytology and autopsy
reports, nuclear medicine documents, radiation oncology
and medical oncology logs.
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