Healthcare Statistics Final Exam Study Tips Questions and Correct Solutions Graded A+

Convert 1/6 to a percentage with two decimal places. - 16.67% Convert the following fractions to their simplest form: 3/9 4/8 1/5 3/5 124/248 - 1/3, 1/2, 1/5, 3/5, 1/2 A physician on your staff performed 44 cardiac catheterizations last month. 34 of those treated were male. What is the ratio of male patients to female patients who had cardiac catheterizations? What is the proportion? Round to one decimal place. - 17:5, 0.8 Last year, you purchased equipment in the HIM department for $14,250. You have been told that the equipment you bought has depreciated in value by 20 percent. What is the value of the equipment now? - $11,400.00 Differentiate between the terms inpatient census and daily inpatient census. - Inpatient census: Hospital inpatient census taking at any given time Daily inpatient census: Hospital inpatient census taking plus the number of patient that admitted and discharged after the previous census taking time of the day before. In 20XX, a hospital had 175 beds for adults and children from January 1 through June 30. On July 1, the hospital increased its beds to 250 and the number remained at 250 through December 31. During the first six months, 30,875 patient days of service were provided to the hospital's adults and children. During the last six months, 36,982 days of service were provided. Answer the following questions and round the answers to whole numbers. This is a non-leap year. What was the average daily inpatient census for the first six months? - 171 In 20XX, a hospital had 175 beds for adults and children from January 1 through June 30. On July 1, the hospital increased its beds to 250 and the number remained at 250 through December 31. During the first six months, 30,875 patient days of service were provided to the hospital's adults and children. During the last six months, 36,982 days of service were provided. Answer the following questions and round the answers to whole numbers. This is a non-leap year. What was the average daily inpatient census for the entire year? - 186 The 15-bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Memorial Hospital had 400 inpatient service days during March. What is the percentage of occupancy? Round to one decimal place. - 86.0% What is the bed occupancy rate for the 15-bassinet Children's Hospital NICU during March if the inpatient service days was 400? Round to one decimal place. - 86.0% During January through June, (non-leap year) a 50-bed hospital had 9,001 inpatient service days. What is the percentage of occupancy? Round to one decimal place. - 99.5% The number of discharge days for a patient admitted January 23 to February 15 is _____. - 23 days What is the wait time for a patient who arrives at a physician's office at 8:20 a.m. and is seen by the physician at 9:30 a.m. - 70 minutes Your hospital's cancer registry reported 287 deaths to cancer patients with 3,821 discharges of patients with a primary diagnosis of cancer. What is the cancer death rate? - 7.51% Using chart A - what is the net death rate is _____. - 0.22% Using chart A - what is the what is the newborn death rate? - 0.05% Using chart A - what is the what is the fetal death rate? - 0.36% Using chart A - what is the what is the cancer death rate? - 9.38% Using chart B - what is the gross autopsy rate? - 27.78% Using chart B - what is the net autopsy rate? - 28.74% Using chart B - what is the adjusted hospital autopsy rate? - 34.04% Using chart B - what is the newborn autopsy rate? - 66.67% Using chart B - what is the fetal autopsy rate? - 57.14% A hospital reported the following statistics for the past year: births, 1,702; deliveries, 1,708; C-sections, 360; and obstetrical discharges, 1,827. The C-section rate for that year is _____. - 21.08% Using Chart C - what is the C-section rate for September? - 3.17% Using Chart D - calculate the rate of admissions approved for each month and for the quarter. Round to two decimal places. - July 97.26% August 99.55% September 99.46% Quarter 98.77% The CDC is the lead agency that _____. - Is responsible for protecting the health of the people of the United States. Give an example of an intrahospital transfer. - A patient transfer from surgical unit to medical unit. List the days in each month for a non-leap year. - January 31 days February 28 days March 31 days April 30 days May 31 days June 30 days July 31 days August 31 days September 30 days October 31 days November 30 days December 31 days Round 13. to: - two decimal places 13.26 a whole number 13 three decimal places 13.264 Bonus question - Convert 34% to a decimal. - 0.34 A coding supervisor must determine the number of FTEs needed to code 600 discharges per week. If it takes an average of 20 minutes to code each record and each coding professional works 7.5 productive hours per day, how many FTEs will the coding supervisor need? Round to one decimal place. - 5.3 FTEs The HIM department at Community Hospital will experience a 15 percent increase in the number of discharges coded per day as the result of opening an orthopedic clinic in the facility. The 15 percent increase is projected to be 50 additional records per day. The standard time to code this type of record is 15 minutes. Compute the number of FTEs required to handle this increased volume in coding based on a 7.5 hour productive day. Round to one digit after the decimal. - 1.7 FTE The HIM coding supervisor agrees to pay a new graduate $15.00 per hour. This is a full-time coding position at 2,080 hours per year. The cost for a full-time employee's fringe benefits is 25 percent of the employee's salary. How much must the supervisor budget for the employee's salary and fringe benefits? - $39,000.00 The same supervisor in the scenario above agreed to increase the salary of the employee to $16.00 per hour once she passed her RHIT exam. Three months after beginning her employment, the employee passed her RHIT exam. What will the new budget be for salary and fringe benefits? - $41,600.00