Ovarian cancer
Match the term with the correct descriptor.
a. Independent variable
b. Dependent variable
c. Institutional review board
d. Risk factors
e. Specificity
f. Confounding variables
g. Case
h. Control
i. Research question
j. Historical-prospective study
k. Recall bias
l. Interviewer bias
A hierarchy chart is composed of which elements?
a. Attributes
b. Processes
c. Entities
d. Nodes
Published by World Health Organization in 1992
Match the following coding systems and terminologies with the appropriate descriptor.
a. ICD-9-CM
b. ICD-10
c. CPT
d. NOC
e. NDC
f. SNOMED CT g, DSM
g. Match the following coding systems and terminologies with the appropriate
descriptor.
h. DRG
i. LOINC
j. SNOP
Which is a demographic datum collected in a health information system database?
a. DOB
b. Financial guarantor
c. Discharge order
d. Admission date
A patient who is using natural herbs for pain management is practicing what type of
health care?
a. Acute care
b. Preventive medicine
c. Tertiary care
d. Alternative medicine
A business rule applied to an electronic health record system would
a. Specify who can make entries in the record.
b. Use judgment waive fees for release of information from the record.
c. Set the format for monthly record deficiency reporting.
d. Compare costs of care for similar diagnoses.
Variations in inpatient and outpatient coding rules do not affect the clinical usefulness
of the data.
The concept underlying lean thinking is
a. Cost savings.
b. Improved quality.
c. Decreased errors.
d. Value.
Because the revenue from the approved imaging system will be significant, the Health
Information Services department will now be considered an indirect cost department.
The 2009 Act named for Lilly Ledbetter € a retired Goodyear Tire employee €
addresses which of the following issues in the workplace?
a. Equal treatment under the law
b. The statute of limitations for filing a discrimination claim under the Equal Pay Act
c. Racial and religious freedoms
d. All of these
How would a facility be classified by the American Hospital Association if the length of
stay for its inpatients averaged 4.8 days?
a. Long-term care
b. Acute care
c. Tertiary care
d. Trauma care
In large organizations the hospital’s nursing staff will be led by an administrator who is
responsible for ensuring good clinical quality of care. This person is most likely to be
the
a. Chief quality officer.
b. Chief executive officer
c. Chief nursing officer
d. Chief operating officer
A medical device data system (MDDS) is able to transfer, store, or display medical
device data.
Senior citizens who die of an injury are most likely to die from
a. Motor vehicle/traffic accident.
b. Firearm.
c. Poisoning.
d. Fall.
Poor memory when interviewed
Match the term with the correct descriptor.
a. Independent variable
b. Dependent variable
c. Institutional review board
d. Risk factors
e. Specificity
f. Confounding variables
g. Case
h. Control
i. Research question
j. Historical-prospective study
k. Recall bias
l. Interviewer bias
How many primary sections are used in a terminal digit filing system?
a. 10
b. 100
c. 1,000
d. 10,000
The Healthy People 2020 goal for tobacco use for adolescents in grades 9€12 is to
reduce this risk behavior from 26% to
a. 25%.
b. 23%.
c. 21%.
d. 19%.
Benchmarking is a performance improvement technique based on
a. Comparison with other high performers.
b. Identification of key indicators.
c. Tracking of sentinel events.
d. Continuous incremental improvement.
Past records used to collect data, then followed over time
Match the term with the correct descriptor.
a. Independent variable
b. Dependent variable
c. Institutional review board
d. Risk factors
e. Specificity
f. Confounding variables
g. Case
h. Control
i. Research question
j. Historical-prospective study
k. Recall bias
l. Interviewer bias
List one reason why health care information systems have been able to expand in both
scope and presence in most health care organizations.
Knowledge-based systems are used for problem solving and patient monitoring.
Improving work processes requires questioning the necessity of continuing to do all
currently performed tasks.
What is the mean LOS for patients having community-acquired viral pneumonia?
Provide two examples of what can be read by a biometric device.
When various analysts compare codes in ICD-10-CM to ICD-9-CM, they use software
that is referred to as _________________________.