Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

You are determining the sample size for a quality study. Which of the following factors should you consider first?

Mark Beck is a new graduate preparing for an interview. In school, he had the opportunity to role-play a technique which requires applicants to give specific examples of how they have performed a specific task or handled a specific problem in the past. This technique is becoming more popular, and is known as:

Ingrid Anderson presents with a skin infection that began as a raised itchy bump, resembling an insect bite Within 1 to 2 days it developed into a vesicle. Now it is a painless ulcer, about 2 cm in diameter, with a black necrotic area in the center. During the history, her doctor learns that she may has recently returned from an overseas vacation and becomes concerned that she may have become infected with anthrax. He will prescribe an

Ultimate responsibility for the quality and completion of entries in patient health records belongs to the

The most common cause of dementia in the United States is

Radial keratotomy

The coding supervisor notices that the coders are routinely failing to code all possible diagnoses and procedures for a patient encounter. This indicates to the supervisor that there is a problem with

Total hip replacement

Joint Commission does not approve of auto authentication of entries in a health record. The primary objection to this practice is that

Parker is a type I diabetic with hypertension that is currently controlled with medication. Parker was admitted through the ED for an emergency appendectomy. Following surgery, the patient developed an infection at the wound site that was treated with antibiotics. Parker's principal diagnosis is the

Acute inferior wall myocardial infarction with unstable angina. Patient also has coronary artery disease and atrial fibrillation.

Which classification system was developed to standardize terminology and codes for use in clinical laboratories?

Patient presents with complaint of gross hematuria. Diagnosis of benign prostatic hypertrophy is made and patient undergoes transurethral prostatectomy.

The department director is responsible for budget following costs would be out of the director's control?

Joseph Woodley has been on a third floor nursing unit since October of 2007 and was finally discharged to a nursing home in December of 2008. When the average length of stay is calculated for the year 2008, this very long length of stay will.

Patient has ovarian vein syndrome and has ureterolysis performed.

Full-blown AIDS sets in as

Your transcription system utilizes disk mirroring. This is an example of a technology called

Julia is an 80-year-old female with osteoporosis. She presents to the emergency department complaining of severe back pain. X-rays revealed pathological compression fractures of several vertebrae.

When merging or overwriting demographic information for duplicate and overlap master patient index entries, AHIMA recommends converting all but which one of the following minimum data elements?