RHIT Exam Review Domain 3: Questions & Answers
Given the numbers 47, 20, 11, 33, 30, 35, and 50, what is the mode?
a. 30
b. 32
c. 32.5
d. 35 - ANSWER:a. 30
Recently, a state senator was admitted to your facility for a serious medical condition. The facility privacy
officer has been tasked with reviewing access logs daily to determine which of the following?
a. Whether or not the patient is fit to continue public service
b. What information should be shared with the media
c. That the patient has received adequate care
d. Whether all access by hospital employees was appropriate - ANSWER:d. Whether all access by
hospital employees was appropriate
Community Memorial Hospital had 25 inpatient deaths, including newborns, during the month of June.
The hospital had a total of 500 discharges for the same period, including deaths of adults, children, and
newborns. The hospital's gross death rate for the month of June was:
a. 0.05%
b. 2%
c. 5%
d. 20% - ANSWER:c. 5%
= 0.05 X 100 = 5%
After the types of cases to be included in a registry have been determined, what is the next step in data
acquisition?
a. registering
b. defining
,c. abstracting
d. finding - ANSWER:c. abstracting
Review of disease indexes, pathology reports, and radiation therapy reports is part of which function in
the cancer registry?
a. case definition
b. case finding
c. follow-up
d. reporting - ANSWER:b. case finding
The business office at Community Hospital is looking ar software that can help them with decreasing
their fraud and abuse cases. The software claims to be able to flag those patients that would most likely
be involved in fraud by examining many databases at the same time and finding those patients with
demographic discrepancies. This is an example of _______________.
a. descriptive analytics
b. predictive analytics
c. inferential statistics
d. descriptive statistics - ANSWER:b. predictive analytics
Community Hospital discharged nine patients on April 1. The length of stay for each of the patients was
as follows; for patient A 1 day; for patient B 5 days; for patient C 3 days; for patient D 3 days; for patient E
8 days; for patient F 8 days; for patient G 8 days; for patient H 9 days; patient I 9 days. What was the
median length of stay?
a. 5 days
b. 6 days
c. 8 days
d. 9 days - ANSWER:c. 8 days
1,3,3,5,8,8,8,9,9 8 is between 5 and 8 so the median is 8 days
A record is considered a primary data source when it:
, a. contains data about a patient and has been documented by the professional who provides care to the
patient
b. contains data abstracted from a patient record
c. includes data stored in a computer system
d. contains data that are entered into a disease-oriented database - ANSWER:a. contains data about a
patient and has been documented by the professional who provides care to the patient
At Community Hospital, each full-time employee is required to work 2,080 hours annually. The four
employees were absent from work over the past year for:
Employee A: 40 vacation hours / 6 hours sick leave
Employee B: 22 vacation hours / 16 hours sick leave
Employee C: 36 vacation hours / 8 hours sick leave
Employee D: 80 vacation hours / 32 hours sick leave
What employee had the highest absentee rate? - ANSWER:d. employee D
{(80+32)X100} / 2,080=
11,,080=
5.38%
you would need to do this calculation for each employee to see who had the highest absentee rate
In a frequency distribution, the lowest value is 5, and the highest value is 20. What is the range?
a. 5 to 20
b. 15
c. 7.5
d. 20 to 5 - ANSWER:b. 15
because the the range between 5 and 20 are 15
What is the mean for the following frequency distribution 10, 15, 20, 25, 25?
a. 47.5
Given the numbers 47, 20, 11, 33, 30, 35, and 50, what is the mode?
a. 30
b. 32
c. 32.5
d. 35 - ANSWER:a. 30
Recently, a state senator was admitted to your facility for a serious medical condition. The facility privacy
officer has been tasked with reviewing access logs daily to determine which of the following?
a. Whether or not the patient is fit to continue public service
b. What information should be shared with the media
c. That the patient has received adequate care
d. Whether all access by hospital employees was appropriate - ANSWER:d. Whether all access by
hospital employees was appropriate
Community Memorial Hospital had 25 inpatient deaths, including newborns, during the month of June.
The hospital had a total of 500 discharges for the same period, including deaths of adults, children, and
newborns. The hospital's gross death rate for the month of June was:
a. 0.05%
b. 2%
c. 5%
d. 20% - ANSWER:c. 5%
= 0.05 X 100 = 5%
After the types of cases to be included in a registry have been determined, what is the next step in data
acquisition?
a. registering
b. defining
,c. abstracting
d. finding - ANSWER:c. abstracting
Review of disease indexes, pathology reports, and radiation therapy reports is part of which function in
the cancer registry?
a. case definition
b. case finding
c. follow-up
d. reporting - ANSWER:b. case finding
The business office at Community Hospital is looking ar software that can help them with decreasing
their fraud and abuse cases. The software claims to be able to flag those patients that would most likely
be involved in fraud by examining many databases at the same time and finding those patients with
demographic discrepancies. This is an example of _______________.
a. descriptive analytics
b. predictive analytics
c. inferential statistics
d. descriptive statistics - ANSWER:b. predictive analytics
Community Hospital discharged nine patients on April 1. The length of stay for each of the patients was
as follows; for patient A 1 day; for patient B 5 days; for patient C 3 days; for patient D 3 days; for patient E
8 days; for patient F 8 days; for patient G 8 days; for patient H 9 days; patient I 9 days. What was the
median length of stay?
a. 5 days
b. 6 days
c. 8 days
d. 9 days - ANSWER:c. 8 days
1,3,3,5,8,8,8,9,9 8 is between 5 and 8 so the median is 8 days
A record is considered a primary data source when it:
, a. contains data about a patient and has been documented by the professional who provides care to the
patient
b. contains data abstracted from a patient record
c. includes data stored in a computer system
d. contains data that are entered into a disease-oriented database - ANSWER:a. contains data about a
patient and has been documented by the professional who provides care to the patient
At Community Hospital, each full-time employee is required to work 2,080 hours annually. The four
employees were absent from work over the past year for:
Employee A: 40 vacation hours / 6 hours sick leave
Employee B: 22 vacation hours / 16 hours sick leave
Employee C: 36 vacation hours / 8 hours sick leave
Employee D: 80 vacation hours / 32 hours sick leave
What employee had the highest absentee rate? - ANSWER:d. employee D
{(80+32)X100} / 2,080=
11,,080=
5.38%
you would need to do this calculation for each employee to see who had the highest absentee rate
In a frequency distribution, the lowest value is 5, and the highest value is 20. What is the range?
a. 5 to 20
b. 15
c. 7.5
d. 20 to 5 - ANSWER:b. 15
because the the range between 5 and 20 are 15
What is the mean for the following frequency distribution 10, 15, 20, 25, 25?
a. 47.5
