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MHA 705 Module 4 Exam - Questions With Accurate Answers
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MHA 705 Module 4 Exam - Questions With AccurateAnswers
( ratio, rate, or proportion): Medicare admissions outnumber commercial insurance admissions 3 to 2. -
ANS
(Rate, ratio, proportion): at the annual state HIM meeting, 85 of the registrants were female and 35 were
male. Therefore 0.71 percent of the registrants were female. - ANS
(Rate, ratio, proportion): of the 250 patients admitted in the last 6 months, 36% had type II diabetes
mellitus. - ANS
*other questions that are hard to put in quizlet. See book* - ANS
Abbreviated injury scale (AIS) - ANSA set of numbers used in a trauma registry to indicate the nature and
severity of injuries by body system
abstracting - ANS1. The process of extracting information from a document to create a brief summary of a
patient's illness, treatment, and outcome 2. The process of extracting elements of data from a source
document or database and entering them into an automated system
Accession number - ANSA number assigned to each case as it is entered in a cancer registry
Accession registry - ANSA list of cases in a cancer registry in the order in which they were entered
Activities of daily living (ADLs) - ANSThe basic activities of self-care, including bathing, grooming,
ambulating, toileting, and eating
Acute care - ANSMedical care of a limited duration that is provided in an inpatient hospital setting to
diagnose and/or treat an injury or a short-term illness
Age - ANS
Agency for healthcare research and quality (AHRQ) - ANSThe branch of the US Public Health Service
that supports general health research and distributes research findings and treatment guidelines with the
goal of improving the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of healthcare services
Aggregate data - ANSData extracted from individual health records and combined to form de-identified
information about groups of patients that can be compared and analyzed
Ambulatory surgery center (ASC) - ANSUnder Medicare, an outpatient surgical facility that has its own
national identifier; is a separate entity with respect to its licensure, accreditation, governance, professional
supervision, administrative functions, clinical services, record keeping, and financial and accounting
systems; has as its sole purpose the provision of services in connection with surgical procedures that do
not require inpatient hospitalization; and meets the conditions and requirements set forth in the Medicare
Conditions of Participation
Auto dialing system - ANSA method used to automatically call and remind patients of upcoming
appointments
Average daily census - ANSThe mean number of hospital inpatients present in the hospital each day for a
given period of time
Average length of stay (ALOS) - ANSThe mean length of stay for hospital inpatients discharged during a
given period of time
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Bar chart - ANSA graphic technique used to display frequency distributions of nominal or ordinal data that
fall into categories
Bed count - ANSThe number of inpatient beds set up and staffed for use on a given day
Bed count day - ANSA unit of measure that denotes the presence of one inpatient bed (either occupied or
vacant) set up and staffed for use in one 24-hour period
Bed turnover rate - ANSThe average number of times a bed changes occupants during a given period of
time
Blood pressure - ANS
Bo plot - ANS
Bubble chart - ANSA type of scatter plot with circular symbols used to compare three variables; the area
of the circle indicates the value of a third variable
Case definition - ANSA method of determining criteria for cases that should be included in a registry
Case fatality rate - ANSThe total number of deaths due to a specific illness during a given time period
divided by the total number of cases during the same period
Case finding - ANSA method of identifying patients who have been seen or treated in a healthcare facility
for the particular disease or condition of interest to the registry
Case mix - ANSA description of a patient population based on any number of specific characteristics,
including age, gender, type of insurance, diagnosis, risk factors, treatment received, and resources used
Case-mix index (CMI) - ANSThe average relative weight of all cases treated at a given facility or by a
given physician, which reflects the resource intensity or clinical severity of a specific group in relation to
the other groups in the classification system; calculated by dividing the sum of the weights of diagnosis-
related groups for patients discharged during a given period by the total number of patients discharged
Cause-specific death rate - ANSThe total number of deaths due to a specific illness during a given time
period divided by the estimated population for the same time period
Census - ANSThe number of inpatients present in a healthcare facility at any given time
Claim - ANSAn itemized statement of healthcare services and their costs provided by a hospital, physican
office, or other healthcare provider; submitted for reimbursement to the healthcare insurance plan by
either the insured party or the provider
Clinic outpatient - ANSA patient who is admitted to a clinical service of a clinic or hospital for diagnosis or
treatment on an ambulatory basis
Clinical trial - ANSA controlled research study involving human subjects that is designed to evaluate
prospectively the safety and effectiveness of new drugs, tests, devices, or interventions
Collaborative stage data set - ANSA new standardized neoplasm-staging system developed by the
American Joint Commission on Cancer
Community hospital reported the following statistics for adults and children at 12:01 a.m. April 1: census
150; admissions 20; discharges 15; 1 patient admitted and died the same day; 1 patient admitted and
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discharged alive the same day. Calculate inpatient census, daily inpatient census, inpatient service days
for April 2. - ANS
Community hospital reported the following statistics for its intensive care unit at 12:01 a.m. april 1: census
10; 1 patient admitted directly from the ESD; 1 patient transferred from surgery unit: 1 patient transferred
from the medicines unit; 1 patient transferred to the medicine unit; 1 patient admitted and died the same
day. Calculate the following for april 2: inpatient census, daily inpatient census - ANS
Community hospital reported the following statistics for their newborn unit at 12:01 a.m. April 1: census
14; births 5; discharges 3; 1 newborn born and transferred to University hospital. Calculate the following
for april 2: inpatient census, daily inpatient census - ANS
Computer virus - ANSa software program that attacks computer systems and sometimes damages or
destroys files
Consultation rate - ANSThe total number of hospital inpatients receiving consultations for a given period
divided by the total number of discharges and deaths for the same period
Continuous variable - ANSDiscrete variables measured with sufficient precision
Credentialing - ANSThe process of reviewing and validating the qualifications (degrees, licenses, and
other credentials) of physicians and other licensed independent practitioners, for granting medical staff
membership to provide patient care services
Crude birth rate - ANSThe number of live births dividied by the population at risk
Crude death rate - ANSThe total number of deaths in a given population for a given period of time divided
by the estimated population for the same period of time
Daily inpatient census - ANSThe number of inpatients present at census-taking time each day, plus any
inpatients who were both admitted and discharged after the census-taking time the previous day
Data confidentiality - ANSThe extent to which personal health information is kept private
Data dictionary - ANSA descriptive list of the data elements to be collected in an information system or
database whose purpose is to ensure consistency of terminology
Data security - ANSThe process of keeping data, both in transit and at rest, safe from unauthorized
access, alteration, or destruction
Database - ANSAn organized collection of data, text, references, or pictures in a standardized format,
typically stored in a computer system for multiple applications
Deidentification - ANSThe process in which users of secondary data will need to remove identifying data
so that data can be used without violating the patient's privacy
Demographic information - ANSInformation used to identify an individual, such as name, address,
gender, age, and other information linked to a specific person
Descriptive statistics - ANSA set of statistical techniques used to describe data such as means, frequency
distributions, and standard deviations; statistical information that describes the characteristics of a
specific group or a population
Discharge disposition (home, skilled nursing facility, and so on) - ANS
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Discrete variable - ANSA dichotomous or nominal variable whose values are placed into categories
Disease index - ANSA list of diseases and conditions of patients sequenced according to the code
numbers of the classification system in use
Disease registry - ANSA centralized collection of data used to improve the quality of care and measure
the effectiveness of a particular aspect of healthcare delivery
Edit - ANSA condition that must be satisfied before a computer system can accept data
Emergency outpatient - ANSA patient who is admitted to the emergency department or equivalent
services of a hospital for diagnosis and treatment of a condition that requires immediate medical, dental,
or allied health services in order to sustain life or to prevent critical consequences
Encounter - ANSThe direct personal contact between a patient and a physician or other person who is
authorized by state licensure law and, if applicable, by medical staff bylaws to order or furnish healthcare
services for the diagnosis or treatment of the patient
Encryption - ANSThe process of transforming text into an unintelligible string of characters that can be
transmitted via communications media with a high degree of security and then decrypted when it reaches
a secure destination
Ethnicity - ANS
Facility based registry - ANSA registry that includes only cases from a particular type of healthcare facility,
such as a hospital or clinic
Fetal autopsy rate - ANSThe number of autopsies performed on intermediate and late fetal deaths for a
given time period divided by the total number of intermediate and late fetal deaths for the same time
period
Fetal death - ANSThe death of a product of human conception before its complete expulsion or extraction
from the mother regardless of the duration of the pregnancy; also called stillborn
Fetal death rate - ANSA proportion that compares the number of intermediate and/or late fetal deaths to
the total number of live births and intermediate or late fetal deaths during the same period of time
Food and drug administration (FDA) - ANSThe federal agency responsible for controlling the sale and use
of pharmaceuticals, biological products, medical devices, food, cosmetics, and products that emit
radiation, including the licensing of medications for human use
Frequency distribution - ANSa table or graph that shows how often different numbers or scores appear in
a particular set of scores
Frequency polygon - ANSA type of line graph that represents a frequency distribution
Gender - ANS
Gross autopsy rate - ANSThe number of inpatient autopsies conducted during a given time period divided
by the total number of inpatient deaths for the same time period
Gross death rate - ANSThe number of inpatient deaths that occurred during a given time period divided
by the total number of inpatient discharges, including deaths, for the same time period
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