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The National Health Care Survey combines the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) and
the _____. The integration of the two surveys allows for examination of care provided across
treatment settings. National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)
_____ technology electronically stores, manages, and distributes documents that are generated in
a digital format and whose output data are report-formatted and print-stream originated
Computer output laser disk/enterprise report management (COLD/ERM)
____ allows the transfer (incoming and outgoing) of information directly from one computer to
another by using flexible, standard formats. Electronic data interchange (EDI)
____ codes are used on physicians and suppliers to describe where a CPT or HCPCS service has
been performed Place of service
____ architecture is the predominant form of computer architecture used in healthcare
associations today. Client/server
____, represented by the symbol χ2, is a statistical test that is used to test for relationships
between categorical variables Chi-squared
,If My Town Family Practice is looking for a way to justify higher compensation for the
physicians that provide the highest level of resource intensity, which of the following metrics is
the most appropriate?
a. Number of visits
b. Number of RVUs
c. Service mix index
d. Case mix index Number of RVUs
This allows decision makers to perform simple reporting, complicated analysis,
multidimensional analysis, population analysis and benchmarking, and reimbursement analysis.
a. Database management system
b. Data warehouse
c. Relational database
d. SQ Data warehouse
Which of the following represent the three main components of the UMLS?
a. Metathesaurus, Specialist Lexicon, Semantic Network
b. Interoperability, reliability, concept-orientation
c. SNOMED-CT, LOINC, RxNorm
d. CMS, NCHS, HIPAA Metathesaurus, Specialist Lexicon, Semantic Network
The barrier to adopting SNOMED CT for healthcare facility coding is that it _____.
,a. Does not include all diagnoses, procedures, and services that are common in a variety of
facilities
b. Is too complex to use as a reimbursement coding system
c. Is only a vocabulary and does not include a numerical coding system
d. Is not computer compatible Is too complex to use as a reimbursement coding system
Which of the following is an example of analog data?
a. CT scan
b. Photographic, chest x-ray film
c. MRI exam
d. EKG tracing Photographic, chest x-ray film
57. PACS may be found in a _____.
a. LIS
b. RIS
c. Patient accounts database
d. Registry b. RIS
Digits one through five describe the ____, digits six through nine describe the ____, and digits
10 and 11 describe the _____ manufacturer
drug name
package size and type
, For the most clinical and financial purposes, the best benchmark to compare a given patient's
inpatient length of stay is which of the following?
a. The CMS arithmetic mean length of stay
b. The AHA median length of stay
c. The AHA winsorized mean length of stay
d. The CMS geometric mean length of stay d. The CMS geometric mean length of stay
____ is a graph that is used to determine whether there is a correlation, or relationship, between
two ratio or interval variables scatter diagram
The null hypothesis for an ___ is that the population means to be compared are equal
ANOVA
You need to interface data automatically from one clinical system to another. Which framework
is most commonly used for this purpose in healthcare systems?
a. HL7
b. SQL
c. XML
d. JPG HL7
In SNOMED-CT, this term is used to describe how concepts are linked to one another:
a. Concept-orientation
b. Mapping