CCS EXAM PREP UPDATED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Primary Data Source - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Patient specific/identifiable data
Related to a specific individual
ex. The Health Record
Secondary Data Source - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Information on groups of people or patients
without identifying any particular patient individually.
Also called "Aggregate Data"
Compiled from multiple health records
Ex. Data taken from the health record and entered into registries and databases are considered
secondary data.
Confidentiality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Security - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Privacy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Quantitative Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Checking for the presence or absence of necessary
reports or signatures. Ex. progress notes, orders
Completeness and Accuracy
Making sure a document is there and authenticated
Focuses on physician documentation
Qualitative Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Ex. Checking documentation consistency, such as
contraindications in entries,progress note dated prior to admission etc
Quality of records
Does documentation reflect the quality of patient care provided
, Incident Report - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Written accounts of unusual events that have an adverse
effect on a patient, employee, or facility visitor.
Never filed in patient health record.
Used by risk management and or attorney to investigate incidents that have the potential to become
claims against the organization or individual provider.
Incident - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An event considered to be inconsistent with accepted standards
of care.
Ex.
res ipsa loquitor - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"the thing speaks for itself"
The injury would not ordinarily occur without someones negligence Ex. Surgical instrument left in
patient after surgery
Currency - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Data Accessibility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅data is available to those authorized to use it
Relevancy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Consistency - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Benchmarking - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Process of comparing an organization to a standard, a peer
group, or other organization.
Ex. A hospital may want to compare its ALOS (average length of stay) with the ALOS for all hospitals
nationwide.
Continuum Of Care - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Various types of healthcare services provided in
diverse settings from basic primary care to complex tertiary settings.
ANSWERS
Primary Data Source - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Patient specific/identifiable data
Related to a specific individual
ex. The Health Record
Secondary Data Source - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Information on groups of people or patients
without identifying any particular patient individually.
Also called "Aggregate Data"
Compiled from multiple health records
Ex. Data taken from the health record and entered into registries and databases are considered
secondary data.
Confidentiality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Security - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Privacy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Quantitative Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Checking for the presence or absence of necessary
reports or signatures. Ex. progress notes, orders
Completeness and Accuracy
Making sure a document is there and authenticated
Focuses on physician documentation
Qualitative Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Ex. Checking documentation consistency, such as
contraindications in entries,progress note dated prior to admission etc
Quality of records
Does documentation reflect the quality of patient care provided
, Incident Report - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Written accounts of unusual events that have an adverse
effect on a patient, employee, or facility visitor.
Never filed in patient health record.
Used by risk management and or attorney to investigate incidents that have the potential to become
claims against the organization or individual provider.
Incident - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An event considered to be inconsistent with accepted standards
of care.
Ex.
res ipsa loquitor - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅"the thing speaks for itself"
The injury would not ordinarily occur without someones negligence Ex. Surgical instrument left in
patient after surgery
Currency - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Data Accessibility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅data is available to those authorized to use it
Relevancy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Consistency - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅...
Benchmarking - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Process of comparing an organization to a standard, a peer
group, or other organization.
Ex. A hospital may want to compare its ALOS (average length of stay) with the ALOS for all hospitals
nationwide.
Continuum Of Care - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Various types of healthcare services provided in
diverse settings from basic primary care to complex tertiary settings.
