WGU C985 HEALTH CARE ANALYTICS
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
A+ GRADED
A business intelligence analyst at a regional healthcare system is
developing reports for clinical quality improvement projects and
best practice guideline development. The best practice guidelines
will be used across the entire
regional system. Which type of database would be used to gather
and analyze data for the reports needed? ...ANS: data warehouse
A busy case manager for a multistate insurance company, retrieves
her voice mails at the beginning of her workday, and one of them is
from a patient whose care she has managed for several months.
She believes the patient is a malingerer, based on conversations
with his physical therapist and conversations she has had with the
patient.
She decides to call him back at the end of her eight-hour work day,
as she tells herself that his call is most likely unnecessary and
unimportant. ...ANS: Nonmaleficence and Beneficence
A clinical research associate is comparing data on her study patients
and their response to a clinical trials drug for patients with
fibromyalgia. They were enrolled six months ago. She is comparing
data from when they were first enrolled in the study, to today.
What type of database is she using? ...ANS: Research Identified
A group of speech pathologists from several facilities within the
same large healthcare system are doing a research study on children
,who stutter. They want to share their audio files across their
interoperable databases as they work on this study
together. ...ANS: Object-Oriented Database
A hospital CFO in California is examining reimbursement data from
their five-hospital system to compare which hospital is incurring
debt from healthcare services to patients using Medicaid and CHIPS.
...ANS: Statistical modeling
A hospital CFO is analyzing the cost benefits of using the patient
reminder system, which was implemented over a year ago, to see if
the automated system results in less missed appointments ("no-
shows").
She is comparing quarterly reports from this past year on volume of
patients who did not show up to their appointments, to the volume
of patients of the previous year, who did not show up to their
appointments, to see if the automated system has proven effective.
She is considering other variables as she reviews the data, but is
primarily analyzing the number of "no-show" patients from last
year's quarterly reports to this year's. ...ANS: time series
A hospital in Colorado is launching an initiative to decrease the use
of their emergency department by the homeless population who
uses Medicaid for their healthcare, by sending mobile healthcare
units into certain sections of their community. They are forecasting
this will save them over a million dollars in healthcare expenditures
over the next few years. ...ANS: Predictive modeling
A hospital is onboarding a new cardiothoracic surgeon who is
moving from a different state to join their physician team. Which
data source will be used to ensure the credentials and background
of this physician? ...ANS: NPDB (National Practitioner Data Bank)
, A measure of how many standard deviations an individual case is
from the mean. ...ANS: z score
A part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the
nation's medical research agency — making important discoveries
that improve health and save lives. ...ANS: National Center for
Health Statistics (NCHS)
A phenomenon or thing that relates to the individual or objects
under study that varies. ...ANS: Variable
A probability distribution based on the occurrence of a particular
outcome based on n independent yes/no events. ...ANS: Binomial
distribution
A QI Team gathered data on all of the organization's patients with
Medicare, who received total hip arthroscopy in 2017. They will
survey these patients to determine the effectiveness of the surgery
on quality of life and functional abilities. What type of study is this?
...ANS: Prevalence Study
A quality improvement manager in Alaska is comparing data at her
facility on enrollment of patients using Medicaid and CHIP, from
before the passage of the Affordable Care Act to current data on
Medicaid and CHIP enrollment. ...ANS: Statistical modeling
A small rural clinic is applying for a grant to fund a program to
address the methamphetamine problem they are experiencing in
their community. The research proposal must be original and
include a literature review that cites previous research findings and
details the benefits anticipated for this research study. ...ANS:
Plagiarism Avoidance
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
A+ GRADED
A business intelligence analyst at a regional healthcare system is
developing reports for clinical quality improvement projects and
best practice guideline development. The best practice guidelines
will be used across the entire
regional system. Which type of database would be used to gather
and analyze data for the reports needed? ...ANS: data warehouse
A busy case manager for a multistate insurance company, retrieves
her voice mails at the beginning of her workday, and one of them is
from a patient whose care she has managed for several months.
She believes the patient is a malingerer, based on conversations
with his physical therapist and conversations she has had with the
patient.
She decides to call him back at the end of her eight-hour work day,
as she tells herself that his call is most likely unnecessary and
unimportant. ...ANS: Nonmaleficence and Beneficence
A clinical research associate is comparing data on her study patients
and their response to a clinical trials drug for patients with
fibromyalgia. They were enrolled six months ago. She is comparing
data from when they were first enrolled in the study, to today.
What type of database is she using? ...ANS: Research Identified
A group of speech pathologists from several facilities within the
same large healthcare system are doing a research study on children
,who stutter. They want to share their audio files across their
interoperable databases as they work on this study
together. ...ANS: Object-Oriented Database
A hospital CFO in California is examining reimbursement data from
their five-hospital system to compare which hospital is incurring
debt from healthcare services to patients using Medicaid and CHIPS.
...ANS: Statistical modeling
A hospital CFO is analyzing the cost benefits of using the patient
reminder system, which was implemented over a year ago, to see if
the automated system results in less missed appointments ("no-
shows").
She is comparing quarterly reports from this past year on volume of
patients who did not show up to their appointments, to the volume
of patients of the previous year, who did not show up to their
appointments, to see if the automated system has proven effective.
She is considering other variables as she reviews the data, but is
primarily analyzing the number of "no-show" patients from last
year's quarterly reports to this year's. ...ANS: time series
A hospital in Colorado is launching an initiative to decrease the use
of their emergency department by the homeless population who
uses Medicaid for their healthcare, by sending mobile healthcare
units into certain sections of their community. They are forecasting
this will save them over a million dollars in healthcare expenditures
over the next few years. ...ANS: Predictive modeling
A hospital is onboarding a new cardiothoracic surgeon who is
moving from a different state to join their physician team. Which
data source will be used to ensure the credentials and background
of this physician? ...ANS: NPDB (National Practitioner Data Bank)
, A measure of how many standard deviations an individual case is
from the mean. ...ANS: z score
A part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the
nation's medical research agency — making important discoveries
that improve health and save lives. ...ANS: National Center for
Health Statistics (NCHS)
A phenomenon or thing that relates to the individual or objects
under study that varies. ...ANS: Variable
A probability distribution based on the occurrence of a particular
outcome based on n independent yes/no events. ...ANS: Binomial
distribution
A QI Team gathered data on all of the organization's patients with
Medicare, who received total hip arthroscopy in 2017. They will
survey these patients to determine the effectiveness of the surgery
on quality of life and functional abilities. What type of study is this?
...ANS: Prevalence Study
A quality improvement manager in Alaska is comparing data at her
facility on enrollment of patients using Medicaid and CHIP, from
before the passage of the Affordable Care Act to current data on
Medicaid and CHIP enrollment. ...ANS: Statistical modeling
A small rural clinic is applying for a grant to fund a program to
address the methamphetamine problem they are experiencing in
their community. The research proposal must be original and
include a literature review that cites previous research findings and
details the benefits anticipated for this research study. ...ANS:
Plagiarism Avoidance
