HIM LATEST FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS GRADED A+
Safe Medical Devices Act of 1990 - Answer Which law requires reporting of deaths and
serious injuries related to devices?
The health record is a primary data source - Answer Which of the following statements
regarding the health record is true?
Average length of stay - Answer Which of the following is an example of aggregate data?
Which of the following is one of the methods of case finding to identify patients who have
been seen or treated in a facility for a particular disease or condition to include in a
registry? - Answer Case finding is used to ___________________________.
Birth defect - Answer A registry to which information would be collected for an infant
born with spina bifida would include what type of registry?
Disease index Answer Which of the following contains an alphabetical list of disease
entries with corresponding numerical code in diagnosis code number order?
Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank - Answer The requirement under HIPAA
to collect information on healthcare fraud and abuse led to the creation of the
____________.
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project - Answer Which national database contains data
from all patients that have been discharged regardless of the payer?
Health Care Quality Improvement Act - Answer The establishment of the National
Practitioner Data Bank was initiated by the ___________________.
,By external users - Answer Secondary data is typically used___________________.
Federal agencies - Answer Which of the following is considered an external user of
secondary data?
Demographic data - Answer What does one call information identifying the patient such
as name, health record number, address and telephone number?
Contains information about the patient that has been documented by the professionals
who provided care to the patient - Answer A record is considered a primary data source
when it______________________.
Registries - Answer Secondary data sources consist of ___________________.
Is the number assigned to each case as it is entered into a cancer registry - Answer In a
cancer registry, the accession number __________________/.
Medicare claims from acute care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities - Answer The
Medicare Provider Analysis and Review MEDPAR) File is made up of ___________.
Contains data from more than one facility for a specific geopolitical region such as a
state or region-Answer A population-based registry____________________.
Procedure index-Answer Which of the following is a list kept in procedure code number
order of patients who have been discharged from a facility during a specific time
period?
Patient care-Answer Health Information Exchange is used mainly for which of the
following?
, Case-finding - Answer Abstracting of disease indexes, pathology reports, and radiation
reports is included in which activity related to the cancer registry?
Selected Match
Secondary data
Primary data
Demographic data
Aggregate data
Disease index
Facility-based registry
Physician index
Disease registry
Trauma registry
Accession registry - Answer Data that comes from the original patient record
Information about the patient provided by the professionals who see/servicing the
patient
ANSWERS GRADED A+
Safe Medical Devices Act of 1990 - Answer Which law requires reporting of deaths and
serious injuries related to devices?
The health record is a primary data source - Answer Which of the following statements
regarding the health record is true?
Average length of stay - Answer Which of the following is an example of aggregate data?
Which of the following is one of the methods of case finding to identify patients who have
been seen or treated in a facility for a particular disease or condition to include in a
registry? - Answer Case finding is used to ___________________________.
Birth defect - Answer A registry to which information would be collected for an infant
born with spina bifida would include what type of registry?
Disease index Answer Which of the following contains an alphabetical list of disease
entries with corresponding numerical code in diagnosis code number order?
Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank - Answer The requirement under HIPAA
to collect information on healthcare fraud and abuse led to the creation of the
____________.
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project - Answer Which national database contains data
from all patients that have been discharged regardless of the payer?
Health Care Quality Improvement Act - Answer The establishment of the National
Practitioner Data Bank was initiated by the ___________________.
,By external users - Answer Secondary data is typically used___________________.
Federal agencies - Answer Which of the following is considered an external user of
secondary data?
Demographic data - Answer What does one call information identifying the patient such
as name, health record number, address and telephone number?
Contains information about the patient that has been documented by the professionals
who provided care to the patient - Answer A record is considered a primary data source
when it______________________.
Registries - Answer Secondary data sources consist of ___________________.
Is the number assigned to each case as it is entered into a cancer registry - Answer In a
cancer registry, the accession number __________________/.
Medicare claims from acute care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities - Answer The
Medicare Provider Analysis and Review MEDPAR) File is made up of ___________.
Contains data from more than one facility for a specific geopolitical region such as a
state or region-Answer A population-based registry____________________.
Procedure index-Answer Which of the following is a list kept in procedure code number
order of patients who have been discharged from a facility during a specific time
period?
Patient care-Answer Health Information Exchange is used mainly for which of the
following?
, Case-finding - Answer Abstracting of disease indexes, pathology reports, and radiation
reports is included in which activity related to the cancer registry?
Selected Match
Secondary data
Primary data
Demographic data
Aggregate data
Disease index
Facility-based registry
Physician index
Disease registry
Trauma registry
Accession registry - Answer Data that comes from the original patient record
Information about the patient provided by the professionals who see/servicing the
patient
