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primary data source - ✔✔The health record is considered a
________________________ because it contains information about a
patient that has been documented by the professionals who provided care
or services to that patient.
secondary data source - ✔✔Data taken from the primary health record and
entered into registries and databases are considered a
_____________________.
patient-identifiable data - ✔✔The health record consists entirely of
_____________________. In other words, every fact recorded in the
record relates to a particular patient.
Registries - ✔✔______________ are an example of patient-identifiable
data on groups of patients.
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,Aggregate data - ✔✔Include data on groups of people or patients without
identifying any particular patient individually. Secondary data are
considered ________________.
statistics on the average length of stay (ALOS) - ✔✔Examples of aggregate
data are _________________________ for patients discharged within a
particular diagnosis-related group (DRG).
-facility-specific indexes
-registries, either facility or population based
-other healthcare databases - ✔✔Secondary data sources consist of ?
disease-oriented databases - ✔✔Data extracted from health records and
entered into _______________ can, for example, help researchers
determine the effectiveness of alternate treatment methods, as well as,
demonstrate survival rates at different stages of disease.
Internal users of secondary data - ✔✔___________________ are
individuals located within the healthcare facility including medical staff and
administrative and management staff.
identify patterns and trends - ✔✔Secondary data enable these internal
users to __________________that are helpful in patient care, long-range
planning, budgeting, and bench-marking with other facilities.
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, External users - ✔✔________________ of patient data are individuals and
institutions outside the facility like state data banks and federal agencies.
aggregate data and not patient-identifiable - ✔✔The secondary data
provided to external users is generally ______________ and not
_________________ data.
indexes - ✔✔The secondary data sources that have been in existence the
longest are the ____________ that have been developed within facilities to
meet their individual needs.
report from a database - ✔✔An index is simply a
______________________ that enables health records to be located by
diagnosis, procedure, or physician.
handwritten data - ✔✔Prior to extensive computerization in healthcare,
these indexes were kept on cards with ________________.
master patient index (MPI) - ✔✔The ______________________, which is
sometimes called the master person index, contains patient-identifiable
data such as name, address, date of birth, dates of hospitalizations or
encounters, name of attending physician, and health record number.
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