MHA 705 UPDATED CORE EXAM SET QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Hospital ambulatory care - ✔✔Hospital-directed preventive, therapeutic, and
rehabilitative services provided by physicians and their surrogates to patients who are
not hospital inpatients or home care patients
✔✔Hospital autopsy - ✔✔A postmortem (after death) examination performed on the
body of a person who has at some time been a hospital patient by a hospital pathologist
or a physician of the medical staff who has been delegated the responsibility
✔✔Hospital autopsy rate - ✔✔The total number of autopsies performed by a hospital
pathologist for a given time period divided by the number of deaths of hospital patients
(inpatients and outpatients) whose bodies were available for autopsy for the same time
period
✔✔Hospital death rate - ✔✔The number of inpatient deaths for a given period of time
divided by the total number of live discharges and deaths for the same time period
✔✔Hospital inpatient - ✔✔a patient who is provided with room, board, and continuious
general nursing services in an area of an acute care facility where patients generally
stay at least overnight
✔✔Hospital inpatient autopsy - ✔✔A postmortem (after death) examination performed
on the body of a patient who died during an inpatient hospitalization by a hospital
pathologist or a physician of the medical staff who has been delegated the responsibility
✔✔Hospital newborn inpatient - ✔✔A patient born in the hospital at the beginning of the
current inpatient hospitalization
✔✔Hospital outpatient - ✔✔A hospital patient who receives services in one or more of a
hospital's facilities owned and operated by a hospital
✔✔Hospital- acquired (nosocomial) infection rate - ✔✔CMS identified eight HACs (not
present on admission) as "reasonably preventable," and hospitals will not receive
additional payment for cases in which one of the eight selected conditions was not
present on admission; the eight originally selected conditions include foreign object
retained after surgery, air embolism, blood incompatibility, stage III and IV pressure
ulcers, falls and trauma, catheter-associated urinary tract infection, vascular catheter-
associated infection, and surgical site infection—mediastinitis after coronary artery
bypass graft; additional conditions were added in 2010 and remain in effect: surgical
site infections following certain orthopedic procedures and bariatric surgery,
manifestations of poor glycemic control, and deep vein thrombosis (DVT)/pulmonary
embolism (PE) following certain orthopedic procedures
, ✔✔Incidence rate - ✔✔A computation that compares the number of new cases of a
specific disease for a given time period to the population at risk for the disease during
the same time period
✔✔Infant mortality rate - ✔✔The number of deaths of individuals under one year of age
during a given time period divided by the number of live births reported for the same
time period
✔✔Inferential statistics - ✔✔A set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to
make generalizations about a population's characteristics (parameters) on the basis of a
sample's characteristics
✔✔Inpatient admission - ✔✔An acute care facility's formal acceptance of a patient who
is to be provided with room, board, and continuous nursing service in an area of the
facility where patients generally stay at least overnight
✔✔Inpatient bed occupancy rate (percentage of occupancy) - ✔✔The total number of
inpatient service days for a given time period divided by the total number of inpatient
bed count days for the same time period
✔✔Inpatient discharge - ✔✔The termination of hospitalization through the formal
release of an inpatient from a hospital
✔✔Inpatient hospitalization - ✔✔The period during an individual's life when he or she is
a patient in a single hospital without interruption except by possible intervening leaves
of absence
✔✔Inpatient service day (IPSD) - ✔✔A unit of measure equivalent to the services
received by one inpatient during one 24-hour period
✔✔Interval-level data - ✔✔The intervals between successive values are equal
✔✔Length of stay (LOS) - ✔✔The total number of patient days for an inpatient episode,
calculated by subtracting the date of admission from the date of discharge
✔✔Line graph - ✔✔A graphic technique used to illustrate the relationship between
continuous measurements; consists of a line drawn to connect a series of points on an
arithmetic scale; often used to display time trends
✔✔Maternal death rate - ✔✔For a hospital, the total number of maternal deaths directly
related to pregnancy for a given time period divided by the total number of obstetrical
discharges for the same time period; for a community, the total number of deaths
attributed to maternal conditions during a given time period in a specific geographic
area divided by the total number of live births for the same time period in the same area
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Hospital ambulatory care - ✔✔Hospital-directed preventive, therapeutic, and
rehabilitative services provided by physicians and their surrogates to patients who are
not hospital inpatients or home care patients
✔✔Hospital autopsy - ✔✔A postmortem (after death) examination performed on the
body of a person who has at some time been a hospital patient by a hospital pathologist
or a physician of the medical staff who has been delegated the responsibility
✔✔Hospital autopsy rate - ✔✔The total number of autopsies performed by a hospital
pathologist for a given time period divided by the number of deaths of hospital patients
(inpatients and outpatients) whose bodies were available for autopsy for the same time
period
✔✔Hospital death rate - ✔✔The number of inpatient deaths for a given period of time
divided by the total number of live discharges and deaths for the same time period
✔✔Hospital inpatient - ✔✔a patient who is provided with room, board, and continuious
general nursing services in an area of an acute care facility where patients generally
stay at least overnight
✔✔Hospital inpatient autopsy - ✔✔A postmortem (after death) examination performed
on the body of a patient who died during an inpatient hospitalization by a hospital
pathologist or a physician of the medical staff who has been delegated the responsibility
✔✔Hospital newborn inpatient - ✔✔A patient born in the hospital at the beginning of the
current inpatient hospitalization
✔✔Hospital outpatient - ✔✔A hospital patient who receives services in one or more of a
hospital's facilities owned and operated by a hospital
✔✔Hospital- acquired (nosocomial) infection rate - ✔✔CMS identified eight HACs (not
present on admission) as "reasonably preventable," and hospitals will not receive
additional payment for cases in which one of the eight selected conditions was not
present on admission; the eight originally selected conditions include foreign object
retained after surgery, air embolism, blood incompatibility, stage III and IV pressure
ulcers, falls and trauma, catheter-associated urinary tract infection, vascular catheter-
associated infection, and surgical site infection—mediastinitis after coronary artery
bypass graft; additional conditions were added in 2010 and remain in effect: surgical
site infections following certain orthopedic procedures and bariatric surgery,
manifestations of poor glycemic control, and deep vein thrombosis (DVT)/pulmonary
embolism (PE) following certain orthopedic procedures
, ✔✔Incidence rate - ✔✔A computation that compares the number of new cases of a
specific disease for a given time period to the population at risk for the disease during
the same time period
✔✔Infant mortality rate - ✔✔The number of deaths of individuals under one year of age
during a given time period divided by the number of live births reported for the same
time period
✔✔Inferential statistics - ✔✔A set of statistical techniques that allows researchers to
make generalizations about a population's characteristics (parameters) on the basis of a
sample's characteristics
✔✔Inpatient admission - ✔✔An acute care facility's formal acceptance of a patient who
is to be provided with room, board, and continuous nursing service in an area of the
facility where patients generally stay at least overnight
✔✔Inpatient bed occupancy rate (percentage of occupancy) - ✔✔The total number of
inpatient service days for a given time period divided by the total number of inpatient
bed count days for the same time period
✔✔Inpatient discharge - ✔✔The termination of hospitalization through the formal
release of an inpatient from a hospital
✔✔Inpatient hospitalization - ✔✔The period during an individual's life when he or she is
a patient in a single hospital without interruption except by possible intervening leaves
of absence
✔✔Inpatient service day (IPSD) - ✔✔A unit of measure equivalent to the services
received by one inpatient during one 24-hour period
✔✔Interval-level data - ✔✔The intervals between successive values are equal
✔✔Length of stay (LOS) - ✔✔The total number of patient days for an inpatient episode,
calculated by subtracting the date of admission from the date of discharge
✔✔Line graph - ✔✔A graphic technique used to illustrate the relationship between
continuous measurements; consists of a line drawn to connect a series of points on an
arithmetic scale; often used to display time trends
✔✔Maternal death rate - ✔✔For a hospital, the total number of maternal deaths directly
related to pregnancy for a given time period divided by the total number of obstetrical
discharges for the same time period; for a community, the total number of deaths
attributed to maternal conditions during a given time period in a specific geographic
area divided by the total number of live births for the same time period in the same area
