Medical Office Concepts Midterm
UPDATED Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Block-Style Letter - CORRECT ANSWER - The type of letter formatting that begins with
all parts of the letter at the left margin
Footnotes - CORRECT ANSWER - Manuscript at the bottom of the page on which the
source is cited
Proofreading - CORRECT ANSWER - Careful reading and examination of a document to
find and correct errors
Standard/mixed punctuation - CORRECT ANSWER - Style that has a colon after the
salutation and a comma after the complimentary closing
Annotate - CORRECT ANSWER - To skim a document and write notes in the margin
Modified block style letter - CORRECT ANSWER - Letter that begins the date line,
complimentary closing, and signature line at the center point
Open Punctation - CORRECT ANSWER - Style without punctuation after the salutation
and complimentary closing
Editing - CORRECT ANSWER - Assessing a document to determine its clarity,
consistency, and overall effectiveness
Endnotes - CORRECT ANSWER - Manuscript sources placed on a separate page
following the last page of text
, Barriers to Communication - CORRECT ANSWER - Loud music, fatigue, illness
Feedback - CORRECT ANSWER - How a recipient responds to a message
Encoding - CORRECT ANSWER - Applying gestures and words to a message or an idea
Bibliography - CORRECT ANSWER - An alphabetical listing of works used by a writer
Decoding - CORRECT ANSWER - Applying meaning to a received message
Channel - CORRECT ANSWER - Chosen method of transmitting a message
Noise - CORRECT ANSWER - Internal and external interferences with the
communication style
E-mail - CORRECT ANSWER - The most common form of interoffice communcation
Proofreading symbols - CORRECT ANSWER - Standarized notations used to indicate
corrections or changes to a document
A copy notation in a letter is placed: - CORRECT ANSWER - Below the reference initials
and any enclosure notation.
Which of the following is an example of concrete wording? - CORRECT ANSWER - The
medical coder will be 15 minutes late today
Dr. Larsen asked Ali to refrain from wearing stained scrubs and provided Ali with a voucher to
buy new ones. Why did Dr. Larsen ask Ali to not wear stained scrubs? - CORRECT
UPDATED Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Block-Style Letter - CORRECT ANSWER - The type of letter formatting that begins with
all parts of the letter at the left margin
Footnotes - CORRECT ANSWER - Manuscript at the bottom of the page on which the
source is cited
Proofreading - CORRECT ANSWER - Careful reading and examination of a document to
find and correct errors
Standard/mixed punctuation - CORRECT ANSWER - Style that has a colon after the
salutation and a comma after the complimentary closing
Annotate - CORRECT ANSWER - To skim a document and write notes in the margin
Modified block style letter - CORRECT ANSWER - Letter that begins the date line,
complimentary closing, and signature line at the center point
Open Punctation - CORRECT ANSWER - Style without punctuation after the salutation
and complimentary closing
Editing - CORRECT ANSWER - Assessing a document to determine its clarity,
consistency, and overall effectiveness
Endnotes - CORRECT ANSWER - Manuscript sources placed on a separate page
following the last page of text
, Barriers to Communication - CORRECT ANSWER - Loud music, fatigue, illness
Feedback - CORRECT ANSWER - How a recipient responds to a message
Encoding - CORRECT ANSWER - Applying gestures and words to a message or an idea
Bibliography - CORRECT ANSWER - An alphabetical listing of works used by a writer
Decoding - CORRECT ANSWER - Applying meaning to a received message
Channel - CORRECT ANSWER - Chosen method of transmitting a message
Noise - CORRECT ANSWER - Internal and external interferences with the
communication style
E-mail - CORRECT ANSWER - The most common form of interoffice communcation
Proofreading symbols - CORRECT ANSWER - Standarized notations used to indicate
corrections or changes to a document
A copy notation in a letter is placed: - CORRECT ANSWER - Below the reference initials
and any enclosure notation.
Which of the following is an example of concrete wording? - CORRECT ANSWER - The
medical coder will be 15 minutes late today
Dr. Larsen asked Ali to refrain from wearing stained scrubs and provided Ali with a voucher to
buy new ones. Why did Dr. Larsen ask Ali to not wear stained scrubs? - CORRECT
