CHIMA ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS COMPLETE EXAM
REVIEW
●● Abstracting
Answer: the process by which data that has been extracted from
documentation is prepared and submitted for use
●● Accreditation
Answer: a voluntary process of institutional or organizational review in
which an accrediting body evaluates the quality of the performance
against pre-established criteria; a determination by an accrediting body
that an organization complies with applicable standards
●● Accuracy
Answer: the degree to which a measurement or value represents the true
value of the attribute being measured
●● Acute care
Answer: care of limited duration that is provided in an inpatient hospital
setting to diagnose and/or treat an injury or short-term illness; includes
rehabilitative care provided to persons who are in the immediate
recovery phase following an illness or accident
,●● Administrative data
Answer: service-specific data that are used to document a person's
encounter with the health care system; may also contain limited clinical
information, such as codes for diagnoses and interventions
●● Admission, discharge, and transfer information systems (ADT)
Answer: a system that documents demographic information obtained
when a person registers for service at a health care institution or facility.
Information in the ADT system may include name, sex, date of birth,
next of kin, health insurance details, and dates of admission and
discharge from the facility
●● Adverse patient occurrence/incidents
Answer: individual episodes or incidents of harm or potential harm to
patients, t public or staff. An individual episode of harm may result from
a breach of duty by staff, from faulty equipment or from poorly written
policies
●● Affinity diagram
Answer: an example of a quality improvement (QI) tool that organizes
and sorts information into related groups, condensing large amounts of
information into smaller more manageable groups
●● Aggregate data
,Answer: data that have been collected or combined from many different
sources or records to form anonymized or de-identified information
about groups of patients; data can be compiled into meaningful
categories to facilitate comparison and analysis
●● Alternative funding plans (AFP)
Answer: provides an alternate approach to funding physician services
other than fee-for-service. The scope of services, deliverables, decision
making, reporting requirements and accountability structure are defined
in an AFP agreement between government (ministry of health), health
facility or academic health research centre, medical association, or other
partners within available funding
●● Ambulatory care
Answer: health treatment provided during an episode of care that does
not require an overnight stay in a medical facility
●● American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
Answer: a character encoding based on the English alphabet that
represents text in computers, communications equipment, and other
devices that work with text; provides definitions for 128 characters,
including the 26 letters of the alphabet, 10 numbers (0-9) and additional
graphics and control characters
●● Analysis-oriented database systems
, Answer: support data analysis and decision making; example is a data
warehouse
●● APACHE (Acute Physiology, Age, Chronic Health Evaluation)
Answer: a severity of disease scoring system for seriously ill or injured
patients, used to predict mortality, monitor outcomes, and facilitate
decisions regarding treatment options
●● Appropriateness evaluation protocol (AEP)
Answer: a criteria-based review tool that assesses the appropriateness of
hospitalization upon the patient's admission to hospital
●● Artificial intelligence (AI)
Answer: the study and design of intelligent agents or technology that can
be programmed to assume some capabilities normally thought to be like
human intelligence (i.e. reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning,
communication, perception, ability to move and manipulate objects)
●● Attribute
Answer: a qualitative characteristic of an individual or item (i.e age, sex,
genetic, biochemical or physiological characteristics, economic status,
occupation, residence) in a health study; of data in a file, a column of a
table in a relational database
●● Audit
VERIFIED ANSWERS COMPLETE EXAM
REVIEW
●● Abstracting
Answer: the process by which data that has been extracted from
documentation is prepared and submitted for use
●● Accreditation
Answer: a voluntary process of institutional or organizational review in
which an accrediting body evaluates the quality of the performance
against pre-established criteria; a determination by an accrediting body
that an organization complies with applicable standards
●● Accuracy
Answer: the degree to which a measurement or value represents the true
value of the attribute being measured
●● Acute care
Answer: care of limited duration that is provided in an inpatient hospital
setting to diagnose and/or treat an injury or short-term illness; includes
rehabilitative care provided to persons who are in the immediate
recovery phase following an illness or accident
,●● Administrative data
Answer: service-specific data that are used to document a person's
encounter with the health care system; may also contain limited clinical
information, such as codes for diagnoses and interventions
●● Admission, discharge, and transfer information systems (ADT)
Answer: a system that documents demographic information obtained
when a person registers for service at a health care institution or facility.
Information in the ADT system may include name, sex, date of birth,
next of kin, health insurance details, and dates of admission and
discharge from the facility
●● Adverse patient occurrence/incidents
Answer: individual episodes or incidents of harm or potential harm to
patients, t public or staff. An individual episode of harm may result from
a breach of duty by staff, from faulty equipment or from poorly written
policies
●● Affinity diagram
Answer: an example of a quality improvement (QI) tool that organizes
and sorts information into related groups, condensing large amounts of
information into smaller more manageable groups
●● Aggregate data
,Answer: data that have been collected or combined from many different
sources or records to form anonymized or de-identified information
about groups of patients; data can be compiled into meaningful
categories to facilitate comparison and analysis
●● Alternative funding plans (AFP)
Answer: provides an alternate approach to funding physician services
other than fee-for-service. The scope of services, deliverables, decision
making, reporting requirements and accountability structure are defined
in an AFP agreement between government (ministry of health), health
facility or academic health research centre, medical association, or other
partners within available funding
●● Ambulatory care
Answer: health treatment provided during an episode of care that does
not require an overnight stay in a medical facility
●● American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
Answer: a character encoding based on the English alphabet that
represents text in computers, communications equipment, and other
devices that work with text; provides definitions for 128 characters,
including the 26 letters of the alphabet, 10 numbers (0-9) and additional
graphics and control characters
●● Analysis-oriented database systems
, Answer: support data analysis and decision making; example is a data
warehouse
●● APACHE (Acute Physiology, Age, Chronic Health Evaluation)
Answer: a severity of disease scoring system for seriously ill or injured
patients, used to predict mortality, monitor outcomes, and facilitate
decisions regarding treatment options
●● Appropriateness evaluation protocol (AEP)
Answer: a criteria-based review tool that assesses the appropriateness of
hospitalization upon the patient's admission to hospital
●● Artificial intelligence (AI)
Answer: the study and design of intelligent agents or technology that can
be programmed to assume some capabilities normally thought to be like
human intelligence (i.e. reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning,
communication, perception, ability to move and manipulate objects)
●● Attribute
Answer: a qualitative characteristic of an individual or item (i.e age, sex,
genetic, biochemical or physiological characteristics, economic status,
occupation, residence) in a health study; of data in a file, a column of a
table in a relational database
●● Audit
