CHDA EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
(GRADED A+)
A set of standards that provides universal names and codes for laboratory and clinical results is _____.
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
High-quality information is contingent on _____.
a. Computerized decision support
b. Systems integration
c. Knowledge management
d. Reliable data
d. Reliable data
The individual most likely to lead strategic planning for a healthcare organization's information
system is the _____.
a. CEO
b. HIM director
c. CIO
d. Medical director
c. CIO
140. An audit trail is a good tool for which one of the following?
a. Holding an individual patient accountable for actions
b. Reconstructing electronic events
c. Defending the corporation against an IRS audit
d. Stopping attacks from the intranet to the Internet
b. Reconstructing electronic events
Health information loses PHI status and is no longer protected by the HIPAA Privacy Rule when it
_____.
a. Becomes an oral communication
b. Is deidentified
c. Is used for TPO
d. Is individually identifiable
b. Is deidentified
ASTM Standard E2522-07 provides guidance to healthcare organizations in developing _____.
a. Data security
b. Medical vocabulary
c. Transaction standards
d. Content and structure of health records
, Content and structure of health records
An important part of the maintenance of the master patient index is to resolve situations where a
patient is assigned another patient's medical record number. This is an example of which of the
following?
a. Duplicate medical record number
b. Overlap
c. Overlay
d. Reduplication
c. Overlay
The percent of antibiotics administered immediately prior to open reduction and internal fixation
(ORIF) surgeries or the percent of deliveries accomplished by cesarean section are examples of what
type of performance measure?
a. Outcome measure
b. Data measure
c. Process measure
d. System measure
Process measure
Fifty percent of patients treated at our facilities have Medicare as their primary payer. This is an
example of what type of information?
a. Patient-specific
b. Expert knowledge
c. Comparative
d. Aggregate
d. Aggregate
Your chief medical officer has requested that you track patient satisfaction over time and in a way
that attempts to separate routine variation from true underlying changes over time. The best tool to
select from the options below is a(n) _____.
a. Affinity diagram
b. Histogram
c. Statistical process control chart
d. Stem and leaf diagram
Statistical process control chart
A researcher would like to test the null hypothesis that the lengths of stay at two hospitals are equal.
What statistical test should the researcher use in this situation?
a. Tukey's HSD
b. t-test for means
c. ANOVA
d. Z-test for proportions
b. t-test for means
(GRADED A+)
A set of standards that provides universal names and codes for laboratory and clinical results is _____.
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
High-quality information is contingent on _____.
a. Computerized decision support
b. Systems integration
c. Knowledge management
d. Reliable data
d. Reliable data
The individual most likely to lead strategic planning for a healthcare organization's information
system is the _____.
a. CEO
b. HIM director
c. CIO
d. Medical director
c. CIO
140. An audit trail is a good tool for which one of the following?
a. Holding an individual patient accountable for actions
b. Reconstructing electronic events
c. Defending the corporation against an IRS audit
d. Stopping attacks from the intranet to the Internet
b. Reconstructing electronic events
Health information loses PHI status and is no longer protected by the HIPAA Privacy Rule when it
_____.
a. Becomes an oral communication
b. Is deidentified
c. Is used for TPO
d. Is individually identifiable
b. Is deidentified
ASTM Standard E2522-07 provides guidance to healthcare organizations in developing _____.
a. Data security
b. Medical vocabulary
c. Transaction standards
d. Content and structure of health records
, Content and structure of health records
An important part of the maintenance of the master patient index is to resolve situations where a
patient is assigned another patient's medical record number. This is an example of which of the
following?
a. Duplicate medical record number
b. Overlap
c. Overlay
d. Reduplication
c. Overlay
The percent of antibiotics administered immediately prior to open reduction and internal fixation
(ORIF) surgeries or the percent of deliveries accomplished by cesarean section are examples of what
type of performance measure?
a. Outcome measure
b. Data measure
c. Process measure
d. System measure
Process measure
Fifty percent of patients treated at our facilities have Medicare as their primary payer. This is an
example of what type of information?
a. Patient-specific
b. Expert knowledge
c. Comparative
d. Aggregate
d. Aggregate
Your chief medical officer has requested that you track patient satisfaction over time and in a way
that attempts to separate routine variation from true underlying changes over time. The best tool to
select from the options below is a(n) _____.
a. Affinity diagram
b. Histogram
c. Statistical process control chart
d. Stem and leaf diagram
Statistical process control chart
A researcher would like to test the null hypothesis that the lengths of stay at two hospitals are equal.
What statistical test should the researcher use in this situation?
a. Tukey's HSD
b. t-test for means
c. ANOVA
d. Z-test for proportions
b. t-test for means
