EPIC TRAINING EXAMINATION SCRIPT
2026 93 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
GRADED A+
⩥ SlicerDicer is a data-first reporting tool..
Answer: This means that when you first open up a data model, you start
with the entire population, and then add appropriate criteria to hone in
on the most important data. Your population starts with a base and is
refined using criteria. The available criteria come from the list of filters.
⩥ Criteria are often the first pieces of a population that a user modifies.
Criteria refine a population to only the desired records. A user will
usually add new criteria by clicking Browse in their Population to select
from the available criteria. Two options for browsing criteria:.
Answer: Favorites: each user can add criteria to their list of favorites by
clicking the star that appears when they hover over an option.
All: a list of every available criterion in this data model.
⩥ Which options does the criterion button allow in a SlicerDicer
session?.
Answer: Add sequential criteria, which returns records where one record
precedes another
,Add overlapping criteria, which returns records where all criteria are met
simultaneously
Specify date range, which allows each criterion to use its own date
range, which returns records where one record precedes another
⩥ A requester asks for data that you will create in SlicerDicer that
involves information being returned for patients that were not readmitted
within a week after being discharged. Which example of criteria is this?.
Answer: Exclusive criteria
⩥ A request comes in for data that lists patients who were diagnosed
with lung cancer that were both frequent smokers and mild smokers.
What type of criteria is this considered that will be created for the
SlicerDicer session?.
Answer: Inclusive Criteria
⩥ Data lineage, the flow of data from one database to another:.
Answer: First, Epic users enter data into Chronicles, usually through
Hyperspace. Then, every night, Clarity ETL (Extract, Transform, and
Load) transfers data from Chronicles to Clarity. Last, Caboodle ETL
transfers data from Clarity to Caboodle the same night as Clarity ETL.
⩥ The structure of Chronicles includes:.
Answer: Chronicles is first divided into master files. Master files contain
information about a broad subject. For example, the patient master file
, contains all patients' medical records in Epic. Other examples include
master files for medications, procedures, orders, notes, and departments.
Each master file contains records. Records contain information about
individual entities within a master file. For example, a record in the
patient master file contains information about a single patient. A record
in the orders master file contains information about a single order.
Records contain contacts. Contacts contain information about points in
time for a record. or example, the patient master file uses contacts for
patient encounters. Individual data points within a record or contact are
stored in items. For example, the patient master file has an item that
stores social security number and an item that stores admission date.
Items that store multiple pieces of information at a time have multiple
lines. For example, there is an item for diagnoses that has one line for
each diagnosis entered.
⩥ You are fulfilling a request for a user that needs a report of patients
who were seen by either a nurse practitioner or a physician from the
previous day. Which database would be most appropriate to obtain the
requested data?.
Answer: Caboodle
⩥ A outpatient scheduler at a doctor's office needs a report that runs
every morning to show what patients were scheduled for an
appointment, which patients showed up, provider, and encounter type.
Which of the following reports would be appropriate to meet the needs
of the user?.
Answer: a) Workbench report
2026 93 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
GRADED A+
⩥ SlicerDicer is a data-first reporting tool..
Answer: This means that when you first open up a data model, you start
with the entire population, and then add appropriate criteria to hone in
on the most important data. Your population starts with a base and is
refined using criteria. The available criteria come from the list of filters.
⩥ Criteria are often the first pieces of a population that a user modifies.
Criteria refine a population to only the desired records. A user will
usually add new criteria by clicking Browse in their Population to select
from the available criteria. Two options for browsing criteria:.
Answer: Favorites: each user can add criteria to their list of favorites by
clicking the star that appears when they hover over an option.
All: a list of every available criterion in this data model.
⩥ Which options does the criterion button allow in a SlicerDicer
session?.
Answer: Add sequential criteria, which returns records where one record
precedes another
,Add overlapping criteria, which returns records where all criteria are met
simultaneously
Specify date range, which allows each criterion to use its own date
range, which returns records where one record precedes another
⩥ A requester asks for data that you will create in SlicerDicer that
involves information being returned for patients that were not readmitted
within a week after being discharged. Which example of criteria is this?.
Answer: Exclusive criteria
⩥ A request comes in for data that lists patients who were diagnosed
with lung cancer that were both frequent smokers and mild smokers.
What type of criteria is this considered that will be created for the
SlicerDicer session?.
Answer: Inclusive Criteria
⩥ Data lineage, the flow of data from one database to another:.
Answer: First, Epic users enter data into Chronicles, usually through
Hyperspace. Then, every night, Clarity ETL (Extract, Transform, and
Load) transfers data from Chronicles to Clarity. Last, Caboodle ETL
transfers data from Clarity to Caboodle the same night as Clarity ETL.
⩥ The structure of Chronicles includes:.
Answer: Chronicles is first divided into master files. Master files contain
information about a broad subject. For example, the patient master file
, contains all patients' medical records in Epic. Other examples include
master files for medications, procedures, orders, notes, and departments.
Each master file contains records. Records contain information about
individual entities within a master file. For example, a record in the
patient master file contains information about a single patient. A record
in the orders master file contains information about a single order.
Records contain contacts. Contacts contain information about points in
time for a record. or example, the patient master file uses contacts for
patient encounters. Individual data points within a record or contact are
stored in items. For example, the patient master file has an item that
stores social security number and an item that stores admission date.
Items that store multiple pieces of information at a time have multiple
lines. For example, there is an item for diagnoses that has one line for
each diagnosis entered.
⩥ You are fulfilling a request for a user that needs a report of patients
who were seen by either a nurse practitioner or a physician from the
previous day. Which database would be most appropriate to obtain the
requested data?.
Answer: Caboodle
⩥ A outpatient scheduler at a doctor's office needs a report that runs
every morning to show what patients were scheduled for an
appointment, which patients showed up, provider, and encounter type.
Which of the following reports would be appropriate to meet the needs
of the user?.
Answer: a) Workbench report
