You are preparing a budget presentation to the board. They have asked for a
presentation on the percentage of salary budget spent on temp salary, hourly
employees, and salary employees. What graph would be most appropriate to convey
this data? - answerPie chart
In comparing mortality rates between hospitals, it is important to also consider the ____.
- answerSeverity of illness
An analyst has been asked to work on the development of a home health strategic plan.
Which of the following data sets would be most helpful in developing this analysis? -
answerOASIS (outcome and assessment information that is patient specific,
standardized assessment used in Medicare home health care to plan care, determine
reimbursement, and measure quality)
Your facility is engaged in a research project concerning patients newly diagnosed with
type 2 diabetes. The researchers notice older patients have a longer length of stay than
younger patients.
They have seen a ____. - answerpositive correlation between age and length of stay.
Under what circumstances is it acceptable to use a non-probability sample for an audit?
- answerWhen not generalizing to the population
In analyzing the reason for changes in a hospital's Medicare CMI over time, the analyst
extract data from the information warehouse at which level of detail? - answerDischarge
level (consider the CMI formula)
The facility's Medicare CMI has dropped, although other statistical measures appear
constant. The CFO suspects coding errors. What type of coding quality review should
be performed? - answerFocused audit (the HIM department can plan focused reviews
based on specific problem areas after the initial baseline review has been completed,
this would be called a focused inpatient review)
This type of data display tool is used to illustrate frequency distributions of continuous
variables such as age or LOS: - answerHistogram (displays frequency or density
distribution of a single numeric variable)
, The ICD coding system was originally designed to be a ____. - answerDisease tracking
system
Patient payments and charges are likely to be found in a ____. - answerPatient
accounting database
Which graph is the best choice to use when exploring the relationship between LOS and
charge for a set of patients? - answerScatter diagram
Which of the following situations might result in a compliance audit? - answerHigh
CC/MCC capture rate (CC capture rate is a valuable tool in measuring the overall
severity of patients served by the facility as a whole or by a particular physician or
specialty; assuming coding is accurately completed the rate can help measure the
specificity of the physician documentation)
30-day mortality rates are considered a ____. - answerOutcome of care measure
A computer software program that assigns appropriate MS-DRGs according to the
information provided for each episode of care is referred to as a ____. - answerGrouper
The surgery department is evaluating its post-operative infection rate of 6%. The Chief
of Surgery asks the quality improvement coordinator to find the post-operation infection
rates of 10 similar hospitals in the same geographic region to see how the rates
compare. The process is called ____. - answerBenchmarking
The capture of secondary diagnoses that increase the incidence of CCs and MCCs may
be benchmarked against other facilities by using which dataset? - answerMEDPAR
The science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that
information is referred to as ____. - answerData analytics (includes data mining,
machine language, development of models, and statistical measurements)
Analyzing patterns of care can help identify ____. - answerMissed charges, over-
coding, under-coding
What kind of data might be displayed on a pie chart? - answerPercentage of discharges
by 3rd party payer
In which of the following examples does the gender of the patient constitute information
rather than a data element? - answerIn a study comparing the incidence of heart attack
in black males as compared to white females
The application of information science to the management of healthcare data and
information through computer technology is referred to as ____. - answerHealthcare
informatics
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