In a case-control study, why are the cases and controls often matched on variables such
as age and sex?
a. So that cases and controls are similar except for the disease and health characteristic
under study
b. So that cases and controls are similar for all aspects of the study
c. So that cases and controls are similar except for the disease under study only
d. So that cases and controls are similar except for the health characteristic only
CARF
Match the descriptor with the correct abbreviation.
a. Comprehensive assessment of a long-term care patient
b. Data content standard by ASTM
c. Data set for hospitals used by federal and state agencies for billing
d. Agency that collects vital statistics data
e. Data set for ambulatory care
f. Agency that accredits rehabilitation organizations
g. Data set for home health care
h. Agency that encourages the use of guidelines to improve health care
i. Data set for long-term care
Why is the master patient index maintained permanently?
a. HIPAA requires it to be maintained permanently.
b. Patients cannot remember their numbers when asked for them.
c. The same MPI can be used to identify the patient in different health care systems.
d. It is the key to identifying all patients who have been treated by the facility.
Minimum data sets are available for use in all the following health care delivery
systems EXCEPT
a. Acute care.
b. Ambulatory care.
c. Long-term care.
d. Mental health care.
The accrediting agency for rehabilitation facilities is
a. Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
b. Community Health Accreditation Program
c. American Osteopathic Association
d. Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing National League of Nursing
Which of the following is never considered confidential?
a. Peer review records
b. Incident reports
c. Credentialing files
d. Policies and procedures about access and disclosure of health information
Government agencies and third-party payers require that appropriate codes be used to
represent the reason for the encounter. The aggregate data from these health encounters
may be used to populate special databases for
a. Patient treatment.
b. Physician decision-making.
c. Research.
d. Interoperability analysis.
Which of the following is a true statement regarding case management?
a. It is a policy directed at controlling cost and access to health care services.
b. It is a process of coordinating and monitoring secondary and tertiary care.
c. It is an approach used by managed care organizations to compile reports regarding
services, providers, and enrollees.
d. It is a method used to manage health care costs by screening health care services
provided.
Full documentation of an information system requires completion of which of the
following system design tools?
a. Data dictionary
b. DFDs
c. Hierarchy charts
d. All of the above
Within a health care organization, in what department would you expect to find
discussions about transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP)?
a. Patient accounting
b. Medical records
c. Data communication
d. Software development
Reproducibility
Match the term with the correct descriptor.
a. Hypothesis
b. Methodology
c. Specific aims
d. Literature review
e. Validity
f. Reliability
g. Bias
h. Prevalence
i. Incidence
Which one of the following officers in a health care organization manages the financial,
administrative, and clinical information systems of the hospital?
a. CEO
b. COO
c. CFO
d. CIO
The first medical record organization was founded in 1938.
The earliest medical records in the United States had some characteristics of a business
record.
Contrast a decision-support and a business intelligence system.
Once a paper-based health record has been converted onto microfilm, optical disk, or
computerized storage, the information cannot be used as evidence.
A virtual machine is able to be connected directly to the information warehouse.
Which terminology is more specific, ICD or SNOMED?
The Institute of Medicine report “Crossing the Quality Chasm” recommends that
vendors help build an information infrastructure to support the elimination of
handwritten clinical notes.
One advantage to storing health records is to contract with a commercial storage
company for both storage, retrieval, and filing.
The operating room log is equivalent to one data file in a computerized health
information system.