QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Question 1

TRUE/FALSE: 5 point likert scale, 1-5 strongly disagree to strongly agree is an example of an ordinal data.

Answer 1

TRUE

Question 2

Which of the following is an example of unstructured data?

a. physician progress note
b. length of stay
c. patient age
d. discharge date

Answer 2

physician progress note

Question 3

TRUE/FALSE: Auditing selects a random sample of the organization records for review using a statistical program such as RAT-STATs.

Answer 3

TRUE

Question 4

TRUE/FALSE: Descriptive statistics measure the spread between data points; i.e. standard deviation above or below the mean.

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

TRUE/FALSE: Inferential statistics have a very low error rate in making conclusions about the population.

Answer 5

FALSE

Question 6

TRUE/FALSE: Predictive modeling uses historical data to help determine future outcomes.

Answer 6

TRUE

Question 7

TRUE/FALSE: The total number of discharges in a month would be indicative of qualitative data.

Answer 7

FALSE

Question 8

TRUE/FALSE: An average payment of $965.40 would indicate quantitative-ratio data.

Answer 8

TRUE

Question 9

TRUE/FALSE: CMS uses descriptive statistics such as cost of services to set payments for the inpatient prospective payment system.

Answer 9

TRUE

Question 10

All of the following are examples of quantitative discrete data except:

a. Number of admissions
b. MS-DRG
c. Discharge days
d. % of occupancy

Answer 10

MS-DRG