RAI
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
Which type of health insurance program would a retired army general be eligible for?
a. Tricare
b. Medicaid
c. CHAMPUS
d. Merchant Seaman Health Care
History of current illness: This is a 62-year-old male who has complained of fever and
congestion for the past 4 days and now enters for tests to rule out possible viral
pneumonia.
Following are several types of data commonly found in a health information system.
Match each according to the appropriate category it represents. When two possible
categories exist, select the €best€ category.
a. Text/categorical
b. Narrative/textual
c. Logic
d. Quantitative
The role of HIM professionals in performance management and patient safety
improvement is crucial to collect and analyze performance data.
Cohort study
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 measures
In 2009, what injury became the leading cause of external injury deaths?
a. Automobile accidents
b. Skiing accidents
c. Drug poisonings
d. Alcohol poisonings
What is the major difference between the gross and net autopsy rates?
a. Net autopsy rate excludes unautopsied coroner€s cases.
b. Gross autopsy rate excludes unautopsied coroner€s cases.
c. Gross autopsy rate excludes inpatient deaths.
d. Net autopsy rate excludes inpatient deaths.
Information regarding the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia is collected by
the Joint Commission and subsequently provided through its Web site to the public.
This is an example of what is most commonly known as
a. Pay for performance.
b. Process management.
c. Core measures.
d. Provider expertise.
Big data are characterized with Velocity, Volume, and Variety. Velocity is talking about
a. Collecting real-time data to capture live streaming events and moments with speed or
frequency of data generation.
b. A large amount of data from patient care.
c. Data structured in different formats with multiple applications.
d. Both b and c.
Used to report drugs in retail pharmacy applications
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
What data management criterion has been met when the data collected meet the needs
and stated goals of the health care organization?
a. Data appropriateness
b. Data availability
c. Data completeness
d. Data reasonableness
Which of the following questions would be considered a structured question in an
interview process?
a. Which of the following word processing software do you use?
b. What do you consider to be the most critical problems with your current system?
c. What features in a computer system are most important to support your daily work
tasks?
d. What are your three or four most important tasks?
An epidemic of viral infection in the United States would most likely be reported and
tracked by the
a. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
b. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.
c. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
d. Health Resources and Services Administration.
A major change in _____ was influenced by the Flexner Report of 1910.
a. Health care reimbursement
b. Patient care documentation
c. Medical education
d. Health care utilization
How would the ownership of a community hospital be classified by the American
Hospital Association?
a. Local, government-owned
b. Voluntary, for-profit
c. Voluntary, not-for-profit
d. Investor-owned
In Best Health General Hospital, the cancer registrar associated with the cancer
program undertakes a systematic sampling of 5% to 10% of cases in the registry. The
main goal of the evaluation is to
a. Compare the results of the two studies with each other.
b. Optimize care for patients with cancer.
c. Evaluate the quality of the coded data.
d. Contribute to public health cancer-control goals.
Which of the following is a data input device?
a. Server
b. Scanner
c. Sensor
d. Both b and c
Recall bias
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
Which of the following is a performance measure?
a. Operating margin ratio
b. Capitalization ratio
c. Accounts receivable turnover ratio
d. Total asset ratio
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) disease concepts include
topography and etiology.
When considering the physical design of a system, window interfaces can be used to
provide views of the document.
Referring to the discharge summary below, identify three general data elements missing
from the report that are required by The Joint Commission standards. Do not include
the fact that the summary was not signed.
Describe the purposes of coding diseases and operations.
Persons who violate the patient’s right to release his/her health information to another
provider can be held liable.