System migration plans are developed to
a. Plan electronic health record system upgrades.
b. Establish and implement communication strategies to prepare users for technology
innovation.
c. Map out building blocks of IT applications moving toward organizational technology
goals.
d. Move legacy systems out in a planned manner to accommodate new systems.
AHRQ
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
The Electronic Disease Surveillance System is designed to
a. Transfer certain clinical information to public health departments.
b. Track the most prevalent diseases in the United States.
c. Register individuals with unique, difficult-to-treat diseases.
d. Track the incidence of preventable childhood diseases.
The ranking of variables according to some criterion is called _____ data.
a. Nominal
b. Ordinal
c. Discrete
d. Continuous
Which one of the following statements describes the primary objective of the medical
staff?
a. Minimize risk of medical malpractice.
b. Maintain proper standards of medical care.
c. Develop policies regarding performance improvement.
d. Contain costs for providing medical care.
Cohort
Match the descriptor with the correct term.
a. Faulty memory
b. The tendency to select persons under frequent medical care
c. The tendency to ask questions differently or probe more if it is known that the person
has the disease
d. Quantifies the amount of risk due to a certain characteristic Ire/IRo
e. The ability of a test instrument to measure what it is supposed to measure
f. Identified by pre-existing records developed in the past
g. Accumulated period of time each person is in the study
h. Percent of all true non-cases correctly identified
i. Reliability between more than one research assistant or observer
j. Examples: all new employees within a hospital, all new students in the first grade
Person time/person years
Match the descriptor with the correct term.
a. Faulty memory
b. The tendency to select persons under frequent medical care
c. The tendency to ask questions differently or probe more if it is known that the person
has the disease
d. Quantifies the amount of risk due to a certain characteristic Ire/IRo
e. The ability of a test instrument to measure what it is supposed to measure
f. Identified by pre-existing records developed in the past
g. Accumulated period of time each person is in the study
h. Percent of all true non-cases correctly identified
i. Reliability between more than one research assistant or observer
j. Examples: all new employees within a hospital, all new students in the first grade
It is the central repository for all the information in the health care organization’s data
base.
a. Master Patient Index
b. R-ADT
c. Number Bank
d. Data Dictionary
The visionary, motivational, and charismatic aspects of leadership are conveyed by the
term
a. Translational.
b. Transformational.
c. Transactional.
d. Traditional.
Estimate of relative risk
Match the term with the correct descriptor.
a. Cross-sectional study
b. Descriptive study
c. Analytic study
d. Case-control study
e. Odds ratio
f. Relative risk
g. Prospective study
h. Clinical trial
i. Life-table analysis
j. Outcome measure
Which publication communicates the goals and objectives for promoting health and
preventing disease in the United States?
a. Conditions of Participation
b. Medicare Handbook
c. Healthy People: 2010
d. Flexner Report
Which of the following statements about the principle of progressive discipline is true?
a. Progressive discipline ensures that the punishment will fit the crime.
b. Progressive discipline suggests that the most lenient response to a disciplinary
infraction should be applied.
c. Progressive discipline entails a structured process of increasingly adverse managerial
responses to recurring violations of organizational policy or guidelines of employee
conduct.
d. Progressive discipline should be implemented quite loosely depending on the
leadership style and personality of the immediate supervisor.
Data analyses are dealing with the process of
a. Inspecting data to make sure data are appropriate.
b. Cleaning data to make sure data can be used accurately.
c. Transforming data to make sure data can be analyzed for appropriate format.
d. Modeling data to generalize useful results.
e. All of the above.
The CEO is employed by and is directly responsible to the
a. Governing body.
b. Joint conference committee.
c. Medical staff organization.
d. Executive committee.
Relational database that connects vocabularies and classifications
Match the following abbreviations with the descriptive statements.
a. MeSH
b. ASTM
c. DICOM
d. CHI
e. CAP
f. RELMA
g. HITSP
h. LOINC
i. NCVHS
j. NCPDP
k. IEEE
l. ISO
m. WHO
n. UMLS
o. NDC
What disease does coronavirus cause?
a. Ebola
b. Rubella
c. MERS
d. SARS
In strategy formulation, adaptive strategies indicate the method for carrying out the
directional strategies.
A hospital is trying to determine the cause of the recent increase in the average length
of stay. Explain why a data mining approach to answering this question might be useful.
Providers of care use clinical data for determining effective utilization of services.
____________________ is an example of fixed costs.
Explain what is meant by the statement “AHIMA is a membership organization.”
Information technology people think in terms of business tasks; users think in terms of
systems.
If we understood more about the causes of injuries, more could be done to prevent
them.