RHIT Exam Prep QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) GRADED A+ (BRAND
NEW!!)
Terms in this set (185) QUESTIONS VERIFIED ANSWERS
1) Health record tech is asked to review Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
discharge pt abstracting module of (UHDDS)
proposed new EHR, so what would
tech consult to ensure system collects
all fed req discharge data elements for
Medicare, Medicaid inpts in acute-care
hosp?
2) Outpt clinic reviews functionality of Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set
EHR it is considering purchasing, so (UACDS)
what should the clinic consult that
ensure all fed recommended data
elements for Medicare, Medicaid outpts
are collected by system?
3) Standard med term to avoid diff in Vocabulary standards
naming various health conds and
procedures is one purpose of:
,4) Pt care mgrs use data and info doc'd in Evaluate patterns and trends of patient
health record to: care
5) Active storage area for health records at Purge oldest records to another location
a hosp is almost full, so to create more
space, what should they do:
6) As part of initiative to imp data Establish a data dictionary policy with
integrity, Data Quality Committee associated standards
(DQC) conducted inventory of all
hosp's databases and found that 70%+
of ID'd databases did not have
dictionaries. What should be
committee's first action?
7) Hosp has 100+ clinical databases and Select rep set of data elements and
DQC is studying comparability among track these across the databases to ID
databases (DB). Data elements and consistencies and differences.
definitions are cataloged for each DB,
so what should their next step be to
determine the degree of data
comparability among DBs?
8) New HIM director has been asked by Identify data content requirements for
hosp to ensure data content standards all areas of the organization
are ID'd, understood, implemented, and
managed for hosp's planned EHR
, system, so what should be the HIM
director's first step in carrying out
responsibility?
9) At adm, pt's DOB is 3/25/48, but audit Data consistency
of EHR shows the numbers in DOB are
transposed in reports. This situation
reflects a problem in:
10) Family pract req's opinion of phys Consultation report
specialist, who reviews pt's health
record and examines pt. Phys specialist
would record findings, impressions,
and recommendations in what type of
report:
11) What are key characteristics of the Uses an itemized list of patient's past
problem-oriented health record? and present health problems?
12) Data elements collected on large Aggregate data
populations of individuals and stored in
DBs are referred to as:
13) Health data analyst has been asked to Medication record and clinical lab
compile a report of the percentage of reports
pts who had baseline PTT tests
performed prior to rec'ing heparin, so
what clinical reports in the health
, record would the analyst consult to
prepare this report?
14) ABC Hosp wants to compare it's HAC All individuals in MEDPAR DB except
UTI rate for Medicare pts w/nat'l avg those admitted with principal diagnosis
and is using MEDPAR DB for of UTI or infection disease
comparison. MEDPAR DB contains
13M discharges, with 200K adm'd
w/PD of UTI, 300K adm'd w/PD of
infectious dz, and 700K had dx of
hypertension. What would be the best
comparison data for ABC Hosp?
15) Health data analyst is asked to compile Vital signs record
listing of daily BP readings for pts w/dx
of hypertension who were tx on
medicine unit within a 2wk period, so
what clinical report would be best to
gather this info?
16) What is the median of 47, 20,11, 33, 11, 20, 30, 33, 35, 47, 50 mean that the
30, 35, and 50? median would be 33, but the answer
say to take the avg of 30 and 33 and
therefore = 31.5 WRONG!!!!
17) ABC Hosp had 250 pts in hosp at 242
midnight on 5/, admitted 30 pts on 5/2,
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) GRADED A+ (BRAND
NEW!!)
Terms in this set (185) QUESTIONS VERIFIED ANSWERS
1) Health record tech is asked to review Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
discharge pt abstracting module of (UHDDS)
proposed new EHR, so what would
tech consult to ensure system collects
all fed req discharge data elements for
Medicare, Medicaid inpts in acute-care
hosp?
2) Outpt clinic reviews functionality of Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set
EHR it is considering purchasing, so (UACDS)
what should the clinic consult that
ensure all fed recommended data
elements for Medicare, Medicaid outpts
are collected by system?
3) Standard med term to avoid diff in Vocabulary standards
naming various health conds and
procedures is one purpose of:
,4) Pt care mgrs use data and info doc'd in Evaluate patterns and trends of patient
health record to: care
5) Active storage area for health records at Purge oldest records to another location
a hosp is almost full, so to create more
space, what should they do:
6) As part of initiative to imp data Establish a data dictionary policy with
integrity, Data Quality Committee associated standards
(DQC) conducted inventory of all
hosp's databases and found that 70%+
of ID'd databases did not have
dictionaries. What should be
committee's first action?
7) Hosp has 100+ clinical databases and Select rep set of data elements and
DQC is studying comparability among track these across the databases to ID
databases (DB). Data elements and consistencies and differences.
definitions are cataloged for each DB,
so what should their next step be to
determine the degree of data
comparability among DBs?
8) New HIM director has been asked by Identify data content requirements for
hosp to ensure data content standards all areas of the organization
are ID'd, understood, implemented, and
managed for hosp's planned EHR
, system, so what should be the HIM
director's first step in carrying out
responsibility?
9) At adm, pt's DOB is 3/25/48, but audit Data consistency
of EHR shows the numbers in DOB are
transposed in reports. This situation
reflects a problem in:
10) Family pract req's opinion of phys Consultation report
specialist, who reviews pt's health
record and examines pt. Phys specialist
would record findings, impressions,
and recommendations in what type of
report:
11) What are key characteristics of the Uses an itemized list of patient's past
problem-oriented health record? and present health problems?
12) Data elements collected on large Aggregate data
populations of individuals and stored in
DBs are referred to as:
13) Health data analyst has been asked to Medication record and clinical lab
compile a report of the percentage of reports
pts who had baseline PTT tests
performed prior to rec'ing heparin, so
what clinical reports in the health
, record would the analyst consult to
prepare this report?
14) ABC Hosp wants to compare it's HAC All individuals in MEDPAR DB except
UTI rate for Medicare pts w/nat'l avg those admitted with principal diagnosis
and is using MEDPAR DB for of UTI or infection disease
comparison. MEDPAR DB contains
13M discharges, with 200K adm'd
w/PD of UTI, 300K adm'd w/PD of
infectious dz, and 700K had dx of
hypertension. What would be the best
comparison data for ABC Hosp?
15) Health data analyst is asked to compile Vital signs record
listing of daily BP readings for pts w/dx
of hypertension who were tx on
medicine unit within a 2wk period, so
what clinical report would be best to
gather this info?
16) What is the median of 47, 20,11, 33, 11, 20, 30, 33, 35, 47, 50 mean that the
30, 35, and 50? median would be 33, but the answer
say to take the avg of 30 and 33 and
therefore = 31.5 WRONG!!!!
17) ABC Hosp had 250 pts in hosp at 242
midnight on 5/, admitted 30 pts on 5/2,
