When describing the typical length of stay for patients admitted for congestive
heart failure, which is the most appropriate measure of central tendency when
there are a number of long stay outliers? - Answer Median
If the sample has extreme values on either the high or low end of the scale, the...
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When describing the typical length of stay for patients admitted for congestive
heart failure, which is the most appropriate measure of central tendency when
there are a number of long stay outliers? - Answer Median
If the sample has extreme values on either the high or low end of the scale, then
the median may be the better choice for describing the center of the distribution.
The median is less influenced by outliers (White 2020b, 509).
An HIM professional was conducting an audit to evaluate the timeframes for the
administration of painkillers in surgical patients, and the medication
administration record would be reviewed. The medication administration record
would be found within which clinical software? - Answer Nursing
Nursing documentation traditionally includes medication administration record.
These records are maintained by nursing staff for all patients and include
medication given, time, form of administration, and dose and strength (Reynolds
and Morey 2020, 114).
Dr. Jones comes into the HIM department and requests that the HIM director
provide a list of all of his patients from the previous year in which the principal
diagnosis of myocardial infarction was indicated. Which index would the HIM
director query from to provide Dr. Jones with this information? - Answer a.
Disease index
A disease index is a listing in diagnosis code number order for patients discharged
from the facility during a particular time period. Each patient's diagnoses are
converted from a verbal description to a numerical code, usually using a coding
, system such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) (Sharp and
Madlock-Brown 2020, 178).
Keith is the supervisor of the MPI and chart deficiency review staff in the HIM
department, which also includes being the liaison for the billing department and
the R-ADT staff. He frequently meets with Michael, the R-ADT supervisor, to
discuss methods to combat healthcare fraud and to verify that the patients are
who they say they are and that they have the appropriate documentation for
verification. This process is called: - Answer c. Identity matching
Identity matching (also known as patient matching) is the process in which the
facility identifies the right person within the database to exchange information
between healthcare organizations. The process examines different demographic
elements from different health information technology systems to determine if
they refer to the same patient (Sayles and Kavanaugh-Burke 2018, 195).
How long should the master patient index be maintained? - Answer Permanently
The master patient index (MPI) is a permanent database including every patient
ever admitted to or treated by the facility. Even though patient health records
may be destroyed after legal retention periods have been met, the information
contained in the MPI must be kept permanently (Reynolds and Morey 2020, 132).
In which of the following processes does an analyst perform exploratory data
analysis to determine trends and identify patterns in the data set? - Answer b.
Data mining
In data mining, the analyst performs exploratory data analysis to determine
trends and identify patterns in the data set (White 2020b, 520).
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