Exam 2: Collecting Health Care Data

In your own words, describe what conditions must exist in order for a person to be "healthy."

How can the accuracy, validity, and completeness of data be improved as it is being collected?

All of the following are components of a problem list EXCEPT:

The nurse took the patient's temperature and found it to be 97.6° F. She entered "976" in the computer. The computer program displayed an error message. What was the computer program checking?

A single letter, number, or symbol is a ________.

Which of the following data would not be considered relevant to the patient's health data?

After all other payment sources are exhausted, the _______ is responsible for the remaining balance of payments.

What vital information fields would a medication administration form contain? Name at least five fields.

Why is it important to have a standard to collect data when organizing and analyzing data?

According to your text, race is an example of ____ data.

Maintaining a problem list is a requirement for accreditation by which agency?

A synonym for an integrated record is:

Which of the following would be considered socioeconomic data?

If a patient's insurance company has reimbursed the physician for the appropriate amount and there is still a balance due in the patient's account, the physician must apply next for payment to the:

Which of the following is NOT an example of the possible contents of a 2 character state field?

What is the difference between mortality and morbidity?

What is the difference between data and information?

In a database, a list of details about each field is a data _______.

The quality that data reflect the known or acceptable range of values for the specific data is called data ________.

Data that pertain to the patient's personal life and personal habits, such as marital status and religion, is called _______ data.