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What does a trauma registry maintain databases on? - ANSWERS -Patients with severe
traumatic injuries (i.e. car accident, shooting, fall)
What type of data is collected in a trauma registry? - ANSWERS -Abbreviated injury scale (AIS)
Injury severity score (ISS)
Cancer registries are what based on what? - ANSWERS -Facility-based registries and population-
based registries
Who certifies level I, II, III, and IV trauma centers? - ANSWERS -American College of Surgeons
Diabetes registries limit their cases by type of diabetes. What are there types? - ANSWERS -Type
1 and Type 2
What is Type 1? - ANSWERS -insulin dependent diabetes
What is Type 2? - ANSWERS -non-insulin dependent diabetes
What data is collected in diabetes registries? - ANSWERS -Demographics and Lab values
what lab values? - ANSWERS -Hb
A1C
, What is an implant? - ANSWERS -Material or substance inserted in the body.
What's the purpose of implant registries? - ANSWERS -Track performance of implants, including
complications, deaths, defects, and longevity.
What is are data sets? - ANSWERS -Collection of related information from sources.
What is one purpose of the data sets? - ANSWERS -To identify data elements that should be
collected for each patient
what is another purpose of the data set? - ANSWERS -To provide uniform definitions for
common terms
What are the advantages of paper electronic health records? - ANSWERS -no training and no
internet
What are the disadvantages of paper health records? - ANSWERS -can get damaged, take up
space, legibility, viewed by 1 user at a time, & difficult to update
What are the three formats for paper-based health records? - ANSWERS -Source-oriented
health record
Problem-oriented health record
Integrated health record
How is source-oriented health record arranged? - ANSWERS -By point of origin
How is problem-oriented health record arranged? - ANSWERS -According to problem list