Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

You have been asked by a peer review committee to print a list of the medical record numbers of all patients who had CABGs performed in the past year at your acute care hospital. Which secondary data source could be used to quickly gather this information?

Patient with a history of malignant neoplasm of the lung is admitted with seizures. Workup revealed metastasis of the lung cancer to the brain.

Arizona Health System has numerous semiretired staff. The Human Resources Department has provided training regarding the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), emphasizing that it protects employees and applicants between what ages?

The responsibility of obtaining an informed consent for a surgical or invasive procedure rests with the

The Utilization Review Coordinator reviews inpatient records at regular intervals to justify necessity and appropriateness of care'to warrant further hospitalization. Which of the following utilization review activities is being performed?

In planning for a file system conversion to a new physical location, it is wise to schedule the actual conversion process to occur

The ownership of the information contained in the physical medical/health record is considered to belong to the

Cynthia wants to retrieve a list of patients from the new electronic document manage system. She wants a list of patients admitted to the hospital by Dr. Smith. Which of the folio would explain why she cannot generate this list?

The failure to obtain the written consent of the patient before performing a surgical procedure may constitute

One-half hour of IV chemotherapy by infusion followed by IV push of a different drug

Modified radical mastoidectomy

The MS-DRG weight in a particular case is 2.0671 and the hospital's payment rate is $3,027. H much would the hospital receive as reimbursement in this case?

In determining your acute care facility's degree of compliance with prospective payment requirements for Medicare, the best resource to reference for recent certification standards is the

Patient admitted with fever due to bacteremia.

Decompression internal auditory canal

The health care facility is testing all parts of the system, including volume, data flow, and screen design. This is called

Case Study #3 A 73-year-old male was admitted to the Sunset Nurcing Facility with senility, cataracts, and S/P cerebrovascular accident with right-side hemiplegia. On his second day at the facility, the resident was discovered to have extensive thermal burns on his buttocks and legs by one of the facility's attendants. Referring to Case Study #3, the resident's family brought legal action against the nursing facility for

A physician performs a PTCA with drug-eluting stent placement in the left anterior descending' artery and angioplasty only in the right coronary artery.

Male patient has been diagnosed with benign prostatic hypertrophy and undergoes a transurethral destruction of the prostate by radiofrequency thermotherapy.

What cells produce histamine in a type I hypersensitivity reaction?