WGU D514 CORRECT FINAL EXAMS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔A healthcare administrator decided to implement email safety training classes for all
employees after reading about computer hacks through phishing. An exam was given to
the employees after the training.
How should the organization use the pass rate data from the assessment?
To identify areas of potential data disclosure
To compare mean scores to determine efficacy
To see if additional educational efforts are needed
To determine the level of insurance that will be needed - ✔✔To see if additional
educational efforts are needed
✔✔A hospital would like to reduce the outstanding accounts receivables with large
amounts. The chief financial officer (CFO) asked the director of patient accounts to
identify delinquent accounts based on patient demographics to create a collection
process through the patient portal.How should the CFO use the data?
To outsource the hospital's collection function
To implement improvements in the revenue cycle process
To explain delays in collection to the board's finance committee
To replace staff in areas where substandard performance is identified - ✔✔To
implement improvements in the revenue cycle process
✔✔Research has determined that the number of sleep interruptions in patients with
fibromyalgia has a detrimental impact on the clinical outcome of the disease. The data
from the research are given in the following table:
Fibromyalgia Patients 36
Male: 22 Female: 14
age Male: 58 Female: 52
Average Reported Sleep Disruptions 100
Standard Deviation 5
Control group 1000
Male: 592 Female: 408
, age Male: 47 Female: 50
Average Reported Sleep Disruptions 99
SD 2.5
To recommend that fibromyalgia patients be treated for insomnia
To recommend that fibromyalgia patients be screened for sleep deprivation
To determine if sleep interruptions are specific by patient age in either group
To determine if gender is a factor in sleep interruptions in patients with fibromyalgia -
✔✔To recommend that fibromyalgia patients be screened for sleep deprivation
✔✔An analyst is interested in understanding the association between the patients
admitted to the emergency department of a hospital and the number of medical errors
reported from that same department.Which database would the analyst use to find this
potential association between the two variables of the patients admitted to the number
of medical errors reported?
Object-oriented database
De-identified database
Flat file database
Relational database - ✔✔Flat file database
✔✔The public health department is interested in the impact of emergency services
provided to trauma patients at accident scenes.Which type of database can provide this
type of information?
Reporting
Transactional
Data warehouses
Disease registries - ✔✔Disease registries
✔✔A researcher is investigating factors that influence emergency department wait times
for all urban hospitals in the United States.Which type of database should the
researcher use?
Reporting
Relational
Disease registry
Data warehouse - ✔✔Data warehouse
✔✔An orthopedic surgical team implemented a new approach for a knee replacement
procedure due to a high rate of failure with the prior procedure. After six months, the
team wants to evaluate all patients receiving the new procedure.Which data source is
needed for this analysis report?
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Length of Stay (LOS)
Electronic Health Record (EHR) - ✔✔Electronic Health Record (EHR)
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔A healthcare administrator decided to implement email safety training classes for all
employees after reading about computer hacks through phishing. An exam was given to
the employees after the training.
How should the organization use the pass rate data from the assessment?
To identify areas of potential data disclosure
To compare mean scores to determine efficacy
To see if additional educational efforts are needed
To determine the level of insurance that will be needed - ✔✔To see if additional
educational efforts are needed
✔✔A hospital would like to reduce the outstanding accounts receivables with large
amounts. The chief financial officer (CFO) asked the director of patient accounts to
identify delinquent accounts based on patient demographics to create a collection
process through the patient portal.How should the CFO use the data?
To outsource the hospital's collection function
To implement improvements in the revenue cycle process
To explain delays in collection to the board's finance committee
To replace staff in areas where substandard performance is identified - ✔✔To
implement improvements in the revenue cycle process
✔✔Research has determined that the number of sleep interruptions in patients with
fibromyalgia has a detrimental impact on the clinical outcome of the disease. The data
from the research are given in the following table:
Fibromyalgia Patients 36
Male: 22 Female: 14
age Male: 58 Female: 52
Average Reported Sleep Disruptions 100
Standard Deviation 5
Control group 1000
Male: 592 Female: 408
, age Male: 47 Female: 50
Average Reported Sleep Disruptions 99
SD 2.5
To recommend that fibromyalgia patients be treated for insomnia
To recommend that fibromyalgia patients be screened for sleep deprivation
To determine if sleep interruptions are specific by patient age in either group
To determine if gender is a factor in sleep interruptions in patients with fibromyalgia -
✔✔To recommend that fibromyalgia patients be screened for sleep deprivation
✔✔An analyst is interested in understanding the association between the patients
admitted to the emergency department of a hospital and the number of medical errors
reported from that same department.Which database would the analyst use to find this
potential association between the two variables of the patients admitted to the number
of medical errors reported?
Object-oriented database
De-identified database
Flat file database
Relational database - ✔✔Flat file database
✔✔The public health department is interested in the impact of emergency services
provided to trauma patients at accident scenes.Which type of database can provide this
type of information?
Reporting
Transactional
Data warehouses
Disease registries - ✔✔Disease registries
✔✔A researcher is investigating factors that influence emergency department wait times
for all urban hospitals in the United States.Which type of database should the
researcher use?
Reporting
Relational
Disease registry
Data warehouse - ✔✔Data warehouse
✔✔An orthopedic surgical team implemented a new approach for a knee replacement
procedure due to a high rate of failure with the prior procedure. After six months, the
team wants to evaluate all patients receiving the new procedure.Which data source is
needed for this analysis report?
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Length of Stay (LOS)
Electronic Health Record (EHR) - ✔✔Electronic Health Record (EHR)
