Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

Patient presented to the operating room where an incision was made in the epigastric region for a repair of ureterovisceral fistula.

Which of the following would NOT be considered secondary data?

The diagnosis reads "first-, second-, and third-degree burns of the right arm." You would code

After a work sampling study was completed, it was found that 20% of a coder's time was devoted to pulling records for physicians with missing diagnoses. How many minutes of a 7-hour day are taken up with this activity?

Which one of the following describes the electronic health record's impact on the record retrieval function?

Patient undergoes construction of apical aortic conduit with an insertion of a single-ventricle ventricular assist device.

Sarah is the director of HIM at a Brandon Community Hospital. This is a small hospital that does not have an alcohol or drug abuse unit, nor does it treat patients of this type. Last night in the ER a patient came in who was diagnosed with acute alcoholism and was transferred to another facility for treatment. Does Brandon Community Hospital have to follow the regulations on the confidentiality of alcohol and drug abuse patients?

You are responsible for calculating and reporting average length of stay (ALOS) for your hospital each month. This month, there were 92 discharges and the total discharge days equal 875. One of the patients discharged this month had a total of 428 discharge days, so the ALOS is distorted by this unusually long stay. In this situation, you should report an ALOS of

A study found that liver cancer rates per 100,000 males among cigarette smokers and nonsmokers in a major U.S. city were 48.0 and 25.4, respectively. The relative risk of developing liver cancer for male smokers compared to nonsmokers is

Full-term infant born in hospital. Birth complicated by cord compression which affected newborn.

Which interdisciplinary committee is most likely to be charged with the responsibility for monitoring trends in delinquent health record percentages?

Which of the following is NOT a diagnostic or screening test for colorectal cancer?

As Director of the HIM department, you are asked to chair a committee that will recommend pharmacy information system. The information has been collected, and you bring your committee together to prioritize their suggestions. This method of working with information known as

The number of births in the facility in October is.

Which of the following is a congenital condition that is the most severe neural tube defect?

Patricia is processing a request for medical records. The record contains an operative note and a discharge summary from another hospital. The records are going to another physician for patient care. What should Patricia do?

Patient is admitted to the hospital following an ultrasound at 25 weeks which revealed fetal pleural effusion. A fetal thoracentesis was performed.

A health record analyst needs to quickly compare all lab values during one hospitalization. The paper-based health record format best suited for this purpose is

Obstructed labor due to breech presentation; single liveborn delivered via Cesarean section

Postage charges for Health Information Services have increased over the last quarter. As t Director, you have seen mail envelopes that have been meter-stamped that did not appear to official hospital business. The best course of action is to