Cengage RHIT Mock Exam_2 Questions With Complete
Solutions
A _________uses a private tunnel through the Internet as a
transport medium between locations for secure access and
transmission.
VPN
TCP/IP
hub
firewall Correct Answer VPN
A 16-year-old male was treated at your facility for a closed head
injury. The patient's 18-year-old wife accompanied him to the
hospital and signed the consent for admission and treatment
because of the patient's incapacity at the time. The patient has
requested that copies of his medical records be sent to his
attorney. Who should sign the authorization to release the
records?
the patient
either of the patient's parents
the patient's wife
the patient's parent or legal guardian Correct Answer the
patient
A 19-year-old former patient has completed an authorization
requesting all of his medical records be released to the army.
The release of information clerk should
send a letter informing him that faxed requests are not accepted.
deny the request.
,send the records as requested.
inform the young man that specific reports must be identified in
his request. Correct Answer send the records as requested.
A 335-bed hospital opened a new wing on June 1 of a nonleap
year, increasing its bed count to 350 beds. The total bed count
days for the year at the hospital was
125,485.
127,750.
The answer cannot be calculated with the information provided.
122,275. Correct Answer 125,485.
A 4-year-old child had a repair of an incarcerated inguinal
hernia. This is the first time this child had been treated for this
condition.
49496Repair initial inguinal hernia full-term infant, under age 6
months, or preterm infant over 50 weeks' post conception age
and under 6 months at the time of surgery, with or without
hydrocelectomy; incarcerated or strangulated49501Repair initial
inguinal hernia, age 6 months to under 5 years, with or without
hydrocelectomy; incarcerated or strangulated49521Repair
recurrent inguinal hernia, any age; incarcerated or
strangulated49553Repair initial femoral hernia, any age;
incarcerated or strangulated
49496
49521
49553
49501 Correct Answer 49501
,A clerical-level employee reports an incident in which the clerk
felt the first-line supervisor discriminated on the basis of the
clerk's gender. The best action for you to take at this time is to
ask the clerk to provide objective evidence of the discrimination.
ask the other clerical level staff if they have had similar
experiences.
talk with the first-line supervisor to determine what happened.
thoroughly investigate the matter and document your findings.
Correct Answer thoroughly investigate the matter and document
your findings.
A Clinical Documentation Specialist performs many duties.
These include reviewing the data, and looking for trends or
patterns over time, as well as noting any variances that require
further investigation. In this role, the CDS professional is acting
as a(n)
A major drug company wants to promote a fundraiser targeting
patients with congestive heart failure. The drug company
representative has requested a list of patients treated at your
facility. As privacy and security officer, you tell them that
if the fundraising was conducted by a business associate without
authorization, and the funds were to benefit your facility (the
covered entity), that you could disclose the information.
, a prior authorization is required before any PHI can be released.
they just need to send a written request for the list.
you will need to confer with the medical director. Correct
Answer a prior authorization is required before any PHI can be
released.
A number of key elements for your facility's electronic patient
record are still input by clerical staff from handwritten data entry
sheets. You are concerned about the transfer of data. If the vital
signs stored in the database are not what were originally
recorded, the impact on patient care could be severe. You are
concerned about the
granularity of the data.
validity of the data.
stability of the data.
timeliness of the data. Correct Answer validity of the data.
A p value of less than 0.05 is what researchers commonly use to
reject the null hypothesis. A smaller p value may place
interpretation of the results of the study at risk for a
type 2 (b) error.
sampling error.
stratification error.
type 1 (a) error. Correct Answer sampling error.
A patient has written to request a copy of his own record. When
the clerk checked the record, it was noted that the patient was
last admitted to the psychiatric unit of the facility. You advise
the clerk to
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