CHIMA COMPLETE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW RESOURCE
●● The organization within Canada that provides the evidence-based
health care programs to assess organizational governance, risk
management, leadership, infection prevention and control, and
medication management.
Answer: Accreditation Canada
●● The degree to which a measurement or value represents the true
value of the attribute being measured.
Answer: Accuracy
●● An individual or organization who is affected by, or affects,
information systems.
Answer: Actor
●● Care of limited duration that is provided in an inpatient hospital
setting to diagnose short term illness
Answer: Acute Care
,●● Service-specific data that are used to document a person's encounter
with the health care system
Answer: Administrative Data
●● A system obtained when a person registers for service at a health care
institution or facility.
Answer: Admission, Discharge, and Transfer Information System (ADT)
●● An example of the QI tool that organizes and sorts information into
related groups, condensing large amounts of information into smaller
groups.
Answer: Affinity Diagram
●● In the epidemiological sense refers to any living or non-living
sources which act to produce disease within a host.
Answer: Agent
●● Data that have been collected or combined from many different
sources or records to form anonymized or de-identified information
about groups of patients.
Answer: Aggregate Data
●● Health treatment provided during an episode of care that does not
require an overnight stay in a medical facility.
,Answer: Ambulatory Care
●● A character encoding based on the English alphabet that represents
text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that
work with text.
Answer: American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
●● Support data analysis and decision making; example is a data
warehouse.
Answer: Analysis-Oriented Database System
●● A severity of disease scoring system for seriously ill or injured
patients, used to predict mortality, monitor outcomes, and facilitate
decisions regarding treatment options.
Answer: APACHE (Acute Physiology, Age, Chronic Health Evaluation)
●● A criteria based review tool that asses the appropriateness of
hospitalization upon the patient's admission to hospital.
Answer: Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP)
●● The study and design of intelligent agents or technology that can be
programmed to assume some capabilities normally thought to be like
human intelligence.
Answer: Artificial Intelligence
, ●● A computational model that assists in the analysis of relationships or
patterns within data.
Answer: Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)
●● To attest that something, such as a medical record, is genuine;
confirm by singing.
Answer: Authenticate
●● A strategic planning and management tool that aligns activities
related to the vision and strategy of the organization
Answer: Balance Scorecard (BSC)
●● Form of technology in which identification data are coded into a
series of bars that can be scanned and recognized electronically.
Answer: Bar Code
●● The process of comparing one's healthcare practice/performance to
that of the finest in the business or to the best practices in that sector.
Answer: Benchmarking
●● A method, technique, or process that over time has been shown to be
consistently superior to other methods or techniques in a given situation.
Answer: Best Practice
DETAILED ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW RESOURCE
●● The organization within Canada that provides the evidence-based
health care programs to assess organizational governance, risk
management, leadership, infection prevention and control, and
medication management.
Answer: Accreditation Canada
●● The degree to which a measurement or value represents the true
value of the attribute being measured.
Answer: Accuracy
●● An individual or organization who is affected by, or affects,
information systems.
Answer: Actor
●● Care of limited duration that is provided in an inpatient hospital
setting to diagnose short term illness
Answer: Acute Care
,●● Service-specific data that are used to document a person's encounter
with the health care system
Answer: Administrative Data
●● A system obtained when a person registers for service at a health care
institution or facility.
Answer: Admission, Discharge, and Transfer Information System (ADT)
●● An example of the QI tool that organizes and sorts information into
related groups, condensing large amounts of information into smaller
groups.
Answer: Affinity Diagram
●● In the epidemiological sense refers to any living or non-living
sources which act to produce disease within a host.
Answer: Agent
●● Data that have been collected or combined from many different
sources or records to form anonymized or de-identified information
about groups of patients.
Answer: Aggregate Data
●● Health treatment provided during an episode of care that does not
require an overnight stay in a medical facility.
,Answer: Ambulatory Care
●● A character encoding based on the English alphabet that represents
text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that
work with text.
Answer: American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
●● Support data analysis and decision making; example is a data
warehouse.
Answer: Analysis-Oriented Database System
●● A severity of disease scoring system for seriously ill or injured
patients, used to predict mortality, monitor outcomes, and facilitate
decisions regarding treatment options.
Answer: APACHE (Acute Physiology, Age, Chronic Health Evaluation)
●● A criteria based review tool that asses the appropriateness of
hospitalization upon the patient's admission to hospital.
Answer: Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP)
●● The study and design of intelligent agents or technology that can be
programmed to assume some capabilities normally thought to be like
human intelligence.
Answer: Artificial Intelligence
, ●● A computational model that assists in the analysis of relationships or
patterns within data.
Answer: Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)
●● To attest that something, such as a medical record, is genuine;
confirm by singing.
Answer: Authenticate
●● A strategic planning and management tool that aligns activities
related to the vision and strategy of the organization
Answer: Balance Scorecard (BSC)
●● Form of technology in which identification data are coded into a
series of bars that can be scanned and recognized electronically.
Answer: Bar Code
●● The process of comparing one's healthcare practice/performance to
that of the finest in the business or to the best practices in that sector.
Answer: Benchmarking
●● A method, technique, or process that over time has been shown to be
consistently superior to other methods or techniques in a given situation.
Answer: Best Practice
