HIT Mod 1 and 3 – Flashcards
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Indicate if the following is part of a population or a sample: Thirty-nine ER deaths were reported during the past year and the hospital administrator is requesting an analysis of all the reported deaths. ______________
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Population
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Indicate if the following represent's qualitative or quantitative variables: Total number of pregnancies
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Quantitative
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Indicate if the following represent's nominal or ordinal data. Fitness based on a rating scale
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Ordinal data
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What is a term for the Composition of a population (age, ethnicity, income, etc.)?
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Dempgraphy
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What is a variable?
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Value that can change
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Select the type of statistics subdivided into descriptive and inferential statistics.
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Applied
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Determining ______________ in the incidence of disease is another data collection function.
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Trends
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What term best describes morbidity data?
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Disease
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What term applies to data collected on births, deaths, marriages and divorces?
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Vital Statistics
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In healthcare, data sets serve two purposes. The first purpose is to identify data elements to be collected about each patient. The second is to
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Provide uniform data definitions
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The governmental agency most closely involved in the development of healthcare data sets and information standards is the:
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National Centers for Health Statistics
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The creation of the National Practitioner Data Bank was mandated by:
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The Health Care Quality Improvement Act
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The collection of information on healthcare fraud and abuse was mandated by HIPAA and resulted in the development of:
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The Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank
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The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project is a major initiative of which organization within the federal government?
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Critique this statement: Interrater reliability depends on the consistency of data collection activities among abstractors.
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This is a true statement.
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The most prevalent trend in the collection of secondary databases is:
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The increased use of automated data entry
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Which of the following databases was developed by the National Library of Medicine?
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The Medical Literature, Analysis, and Retrieval System Online
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A record is considered a primary data source when it:
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Contains information about the patient that has been documented by the professionals who provided care to the patient
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Contains information about the patient that has been documented by the professionals who provided care to the patient
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Facility-specific indexes Registries Healthcare databases Correct! All of these
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One aspect of healthcare quality is the degree to which it
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is consistent with current professional knowledge
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When desired results are achieved with minimal expenditure of resources, the healthcare services are considered to be
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cost-effective
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A reliable healthcare service is one that
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consistently performs as intended
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One aim of the National Quality Strategy is
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affordable care
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The three primary quality management activities are
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measurement, assessment, and improvement
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Which of the following individuals is considered the father of statistical quality control?
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Walter Shewhart
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Which of the following is the quality program managed by the US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology?
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Baldrige Performance Excellence Program
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Which of the following organizations was the first to sponsor a program to improve the quality of care in US hospitals?
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American College of Surgeons
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Which of the following terms describes actions performed in a healthcare organization to achieve compliance with minimum quality standards
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Quality assurance
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The quality management requirements of the Medicare program are found in the
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CoP
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Factors unique to healthcare that inhibit adoption of certain industrial quality improvement techniques include
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Conditions and Behaviors of Pts
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A high-reliability organization is one in which
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the number of accidents is fewer than expected
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Which of the following are detailed step-by-step guides used by healthcare practitioners to make clinical decisions related directly to patient care?
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Clinical practice guidlines
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Which of the following are predefined statements of the criteria against which the performance of a healthcare organization will be assessed during a voluntary review process?
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Accreditation Standards
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Which of the following documents the results of care for individual patients as well as for specific types of patients grouped by diagnostic category?
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Outcome Measures
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Which of the following organizations provides the most complete view of managed care plan quality?
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NCQA
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Which of the following is the largest healthcare standards-setting body in the world?
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JC
