MAA10 Final Exam Review Accurate (A+) Answers
Purpose of a patient signing an informed consent - ✔✔Ensuring understanding of treatment and
possible outcomes
The most appropriate way to terminate an initial interview with the patient - ✔✔Ask, "Is there
anything else you would like the doctor to know?"
The best place to interview a patient - ✔✔Private room
Example of clarity in documentation - ✔✔"The patient got out of bed and walked 30 feet without
reporting or displaying signs of shortness of breath"
SOAP - ✔✔Stands for subjective, objective, assessment, plan -
Provides and orderly series of steps when dealing with a medical case
Subjective information - ✔✔Information that comes directly form the patient
Objective information - ✔✔Information that is gathered through examination, measurement or
from the provider
Assessment - ✔✔Diagnosis based on the data gathered from the subjective and objective of the
patient
, Plan - ✔✔Plan of action determined by the provider
Documentation - ✔✔Recording data and information in a medical record
Advantages of EHRs - ✔✔- legibility
- availability
- ease of updating
- storage
- improved patient security
Disadvantages of EHRs - ✔✔-high cost in time and money for hardware, software, training
-inaccessibility if the computer goes down
-concerns over protecting confidentiality or patient records
Number of identifiers needed to identify a patient - ✔✔At least 2
Patient portal - ✔✔A secure online website that gives patients convenient 24-hour access to
personal health information through access to parts of their EHR.
First thing to do when answering the office telephone - ✔✔Identify the office and yourself
Purpose of a patient signing an informed consent - ✔✔Ensuring understanding of treatment and
possible outcomes
The most appropriate way to terminate an initial interview with the patient - ✔✔Ask, "Is there
anything else you would like the doctor to know?"
The best place to interview a patient - ✔✔Private room
Example of clarity in documentation - ✔✔"The patient got out of bed and walked 30 feet without
reporting or displaying signs of shortness of breath"
SOAP - ✔✔Stands for subjective, objective, assessment, plan -
Provides and orderly series of steps when dealing with a medical case
Subjective information - ✔✔Information that comes directly form the patient
Objective information - ✔✔Information that is gathered through examination, measurement or
from the provider
Assessment - ✔✔Diagnosis based on the data gathered from the subjective and objective of the
patient
, Plan - ✔✔Plan of action determined by the provider
Documentation - ✔✔Recording data and information in a medical record
Advantages of EHRs - ✔✔- legibility
- availability
- ease of updating
- storage
- improved patient security
Disadvantages of EHRs - ✔✔-high cost in time and money for hardware, software, training
-inaccessibility if the computer goes down
-concerns over protecting confidentiality or patient records
Number of identifiers needed to identify a patient - ✔✔At least 2
Patient portal - ✔✔A secure online website that gives patients convenient 24-hour access to
personal health information through access to parts of their EHR.
First thing to do when answering the office telephone - ✔✔Identify the office and yourself
