Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

Under which of the following conditions can an original patient health record by physically removed from the hospital?

Bayside Hospital has 275 adult beds, 30 pediatric beds, and 40 bassinets. In a nonleap year, inpatient service days were 75,860 for adults, 7,100 for pediatrics, and 11,800 for newborns. What was the average daily census for the year?

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In regard to quality of coding, the degree to which the same results (same codes) are obtained by different coders or on multiple attempts by the same coder refers to

The difference between an Institutional Review Board (IRB) and a hospital's Ethics Committee is that

The data in the column on the far right were collected when the coders traded records for recoding. This is a common practice used to check The coding supervisor at Bayside Hospital regularly has her coders recode records from the previous week in an effort to improve and monitor coding consistency. The supervisor has collected the data displayed below on four coders.

The most common blood borne infection in the United States is

The best place to ascertain the size of an excised lesion for accurate CPT coding is the

As an HIM supervisor at Bayview Hospital, you supervise five employees. One of y employees reports that a co-worker has returned from lunch on numerous occasions with smell of alcohol on his breath. What is the best approach in handling this problem?

Which one of the following is NOT a pathophysiological factor in anemia?

A key data item you would expect to find recorded on an ER record, but would probably NOT see in an acute care record is the

A 4-year-old had a repair of an incarcerated inguinal hernia. This is the first time this child had been treated for this condition.

You point out to your administrator that the study model generally accepted to be the best method to determine the magnitude of risk in the population with the characteristic or suspected risk factor is the

Which one of the following is NOT a data retrieval technology?

An established patient returns to the physician's office for follow-up on his hypertension and diabetes. The physician takes the blood pressure and references the patient's last three glucose tests. The patient is still running above normal glucose levels, so the physician decides to adjust the patient's insulin. An expanded history was taken and a physical examination was performed.

Gas exchange in the lungs takes place at the

Dr. Smith wants to see the latest test results first. Dr. Brown wants to see the nurse's notes first. The different user views can be available by use of by a

Malignant melanoma, skin of back. Patient undergoes a radical excision of the melanoma with full-thickness skin graft.

The use of personal signature stamps for authentication of entries in a paper-based record requires special measures to guard against delegated use of the stamp. In a completely computerized patient record system, similar rmeasures might be utilized to govern the use of

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