QUESTIONS SET 5 Flashcards
Which application uses statistical techniques to determine the likelihood of certain events occurring together?
A. Predictive modeling
B. Serial numbering
C. Standard deviation
D. T-test
Predictive modeling
Suppose that you are purchasing shelving units. The department has planned for units that are 5 shelves high, and each shelf is to be 36 inches wide and have 33 inches of actual filing space. From a sampling of records in the current files, you have determined that the average thickness of each records is 2 inches. You are planning to store 10 years’ worth of rescores and the average discharge rate is 2,000 per year. How many shelving units do you need to purchase?
a. 165
b. 180
c. 222
d. 243
243
Which number filing system results in an even distribution of records and ensures activity throughout the filing area?
a. straight numeric
b. alphabetic
c. cryptic
d. terminal-digit
Terminal-digit filing system
The Joint Commission requirement regarding delinquent records is that the number of delinquent records in a facility cannot exceed
a. 50% of the average admissions per week
b. 150% of the average number of discharges
c. 50% of the average number of discharges
d. 25% of yearly admissions
50 percent of the average number of discharges
Which model for health information exchange stores patient records in a single database built to allow queries into the system?
A. Federated
B. Hybrid
C. Centralized
D. Decentralized
Centralized
Patient mortality, infection, and complication rates, adherence to living with requirements adequate pain control, and other documentation that describe end results of care of measurable change in the patient’s health are examples of
A. sentinel events.
B. threshold level.
C. outcome measures.
D. incident reports.
outcome measures.
A manager of a Health Information Department has many training and development methods available for the departmental and nondepartmental staff. Consider the following situation
The department’s working hours are 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. If a record is needed in the ER for a possible readmission, the ER clerk has access to the facility’s electronic health record in order to retrieve the record. On the occasions where the ER clerk has retrieved a record, it appears as if the clerk was viewing records unnecessarily within the EHR. What would be the best training or developmental method for the ER clerk in order to rectify this situation?
a. receive training by an ER coworker
b. received training by an expert in record documentation
c. attend an outside workshop or seminar
d. received training by the supervisor of files
Received training by the supervisor of files
The project definition justifies the need for the new project. What would you expect to see in the project justification?
A) project scope, resources needed, and amount of time required
B) project scope, resources needed, and developing the solution
C) resources needed, amount of time required, and preparing supporting documentation for the system chosen
D) amount of time required, alternative analysis, and implementation review
Project scope, resources needed, and amount of time required
In project management, the series of activities that make up the longest duration toward project completion is referred to as
A. risk analysis.
B. project network.
C. project definition.
D. critical path.
Critical path
At great plains regional hospital, record processing takes approximately 18 mins. If there are 15,620 discharges for the month, how many staff hours are needed for this volume of work?
A. 2,891
B. 5,496
C. 4,686
D. 3,394
4,686
