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Chapter 8
Essentials of Health Information Management Chapter 8
Question | Answer |
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Indexing allows for | Health information to be maintained and retrieved for education and research |
Health care facilities maintain a master patient index (MPI) | Permanently |
Disease, produced, and phusician indexes are generated as the result of case | Abstracting |
The master patient index (MPI) links a patient's medical record number with | common indentification data elements |
An admission/discharge/transfer system interfaces with an automated MPI to | input patient registration information |
Which is an example of an MPI's continuityof care (or continum of care) use? | Attending physician contact the health information department to request old records on a readmitted patient. |
It is important to avoid the creation of duplicate MPI records, which means | Information should be entered by the deparment that has control over the assignment of medical record numbers |
Diesease, procedure, and physician indexes contain data abstracted (selected) from | patient records |
Case report forms are used by health care providers to report data to | all of these |
Registers and registries are_______ sources of patient information | Secondary |
The NCHS responsible for maintaining official vital statistics is a ________agency | Federal |
Case abstracting is an automated or manual process performed by a health information department staff to collect patient information | TRUE |
Which is the study of types of patients treated by a facilty? | Case mix analysis |
A standard method for collectingand reporting individual elements is called a data_____ | Set |
Registers and registries contain information about a disease or event and are maintained by | All of these |
Data confoms to an expected range of values | Data Validity |
Data is the same no matter where the data is recorded | Data Integrity |
Data is consistent throughout all systems | Data reliability |
Purpose for which the data are collected | Data application |
Process by which data elements are accumulated | Data Collection |
Processes and systems used to archive data amd data journals | Data Warehousing |
Process of translating data into information utilizaed for an application | Data Analysis |
Number of inpatients present at Census-taking time | Daily census count |
Official count of inpatients present at midnight | Daily inpatient census |
Arithmetic mean of inpatients treated during a given time period | Average daily census |