QUESTIONS SET 3 Flashcards
Which of the following four sources of law derives from the English common law and is also known as judge-made or case law?
a. Constitutional law
b. Statutory law
c. Common law
d. Administrative law
Common law
In a patient record, the physician notes that the patient is â morbidly obese.â The patient sees thenotation and sues the physician. Which of the following best characterizes this situation? The physician _____.
A. Is liable for committing slander
B. Is liable for committing libel
C. Has a right to record his or her personal opinion of the patient
D. Has a right to document pertinent clinical observations
Has a right to document pertinent clinical observations
A HIM professional who is designing a health record system for a healthcare facility should check which legal source to determine how long medical records should be retained by the facility?
a) AHIMA record retention guidelines
b) State law
c) County or city codes
d) Joint Commission accreditation standards
State law
A patient admitted to the hospital on January 24 and discharged on February 9 has a length of stay of
A. 16 days
B. 15 days
C. 17 days
D. 14 days
16 days
During the month of September, Superior Health Care Center had 1,382 inpatient discharges, including 48 deaths. There were 38 deaths over 48 hours. Statistics also show 4 fetal deaths, 3 DOA’s and 4 inpatient coroner’s cases. Which of the following calculations is correct to figure the net death rate?
A. (48 x 100/(1,382 - 10)
B. (48 - 10 x 100)/(1,382 - 10)
C. (1,382 x 100)/(48 - 10)
D. (1,382 - 10) x 100/(48 - 10)
(48 - 10 x 100)/(1,382 - 10)
You want to graph the number of patients admitted to three different medical staff services on each day of the last month. Because you have a large number of observations (one for each day of the month) and you want to be able to compare the observations for each of the three services on one data display, your best choice is a
A. table
B. bar chart
C. line graph
D. histogram
line graph
The primary difference between and experimental (Randomized) clinical trial and other observational study designs in epidemiology is that in an experimental trial, the
a. study is prospective.
b. study is case controlled.
c. study and control maps are selected on the basis of exposure to the suspected causal factor.
d. investigator determines who is and who is not exposed.
investigator determines who is and who is not exposed.
The ability to obtain the same results from different studies using different methodologies and different populations is
A. reliability.
B. validity.
C. confidence.
D. specificity.
reliability
The researchers at AHIMA started by assuming there was no relationship between job stress a job satisfaction. This statement is generally called the
A. study statement.
B. false assumption.
C. null hypothesis.
D. correlation statemen
Null hypothesis
You are conducting a patient satisfaction survey in your outpatient clinical using interviewers who administer a questionnaire. Because you typically see about 300 people per day in the clinic, you decide to have the interviewers administer the questionnaire on every tenth patient. You are using.
A) Systematic sampling
B) Stratified sampling
C) Cluster sampling
D) Convenience sampling
Systematic sampling
