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Graded A+
A) Implant
B) HIV/AIDS
C) Birth defects
D) Trauma
C) Birth defects - ✔✔Case definition is important for all types of registries.
Age will certainly be an important criterion for accessing a case in a
__________________ registry
A) Completeness
B) Consistency
C) Clarity
D) Precision
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,D) Precision - ✔✔A coder came across a medical record where a sputum
culture indicated bacterial pneumonia but the diagnosis did not indicate the
cause of the pneumonia. Documentation in the patient's record failed to
meet which one of the following criteria:
A) National Practitioner Data Bank
B) RxNorm
C) Vital statistics
D) MEDPAR
D) MEDPAR - ✔✔You need to analyze data on the types of care provided
to Medicare patients in your geographic area by DRG. Which of the
following would be most helpful?
A) Validity
B) Timeliness
C) Reliability
D) Completeness
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,D) Completeness - ✔✔The coding supervisor notices that the coders are
routinely failing to code all possible diagnoses and procedures for a patient
encounter. This indicates to the supervisor that there is a problem with
A) Aggregate data
B) MPI data
C) Protocol data
D) Patient - identifiable data
A) Aggregate data - ✔✔You are looking at statistics for your facility that
include average length of stay and discharge data by DRG/ What type of
data are you reviewing?
A) Timeliness
B) Completeness
C) Validity
D) Reliability
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, D) Reliability - ✔✔In regard to quality of coding, the degree to which the
same results (same codes) are obtained by different coders or on multiple
attempts by the same coders refers to
A) Emergency record
B) Medical consultation
C) Pharmacy consultation
D) Physical exam
C) Pharmacy consultation - ✔✔Determine which of the following is a form
or view that is typically seen in the health record of a long term care patient
but is rarely seen in records of acute care patients
A) The quality of follow up care
B) Whether a postoperative infection occurred and how it was treated
C) Whether the severity of illness and intensity of service warranted acute
level care
D) The presence or absence of such items as preoperative and
postoperative diagnosis, description of findings, and specimens removed
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