The Development and Evaluation of a Correspondence Training Program for Tumor Registrars.

摘要

A program designed to teach the medical vocabulary required of tumor registars was developed and administered to 33 persons, 31 of whom were employed at 25 Louisiana hospitals. The training program was administered as a correspondence course covering such topics as the purposes of a tumor registry and how the registry is established; how to code information contained on a tumor registry; and how to abstract the chart of a cancer patient. Criterion test score results showed that on 8 of 10 criterion tests, at least 75% of the standards scored 65 or higher. The methods described in this report can be used in developing and field-testing draft training program materials in many different subject areas.