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A registry or database is a secondary data source |
true
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A patient health record contains aggregate data |
false
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Secondary data provide information that is not easily collected from indvidual health records |
true
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Administrative and management staff members are internal users of secondary data |
true
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Medical staff members are external users of secondary data |
false
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Which is an important source of patient health record numbers?
a. physician index b. master patient index c. operation index d. disease index |
b. master patient index
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After the cases to be included in the registry have been determined, what is the next step in data acquisitions?
a. Case registraton b. Case definition c. case abstracting d. case finding |
d. case finding
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What number is assigned to a case when it is first entered in a cancer registry?
a. accession number b. patient number c. health record number d. medical record number |
a. accession number
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what are patient data such as name, age, address, etc?
a. demographic data b. secondary data c. aggregate data d. identification data |
a. demographic data
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What type of registry maintains a database on patients injured by an external physical force?
a. implant registry b. birth defects registry c. trauma registry d. transplant registry |
c. trauma registry
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In addition to collecting patient data, what activities do many types of registries engage in?
a. abstracting and follow-up b. follow-up and case finding c. reporting and case finding d. reporting and follow-up |
d. reporting and follow-up
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why is the MEDPAT file limited in terms of being used for research purposes?
a. it only provides demographics b. it only contains Medicare patients c. It uses ICD9 dx and procedure codes d. it breaks charges down by specific type of service |
b. it only contains Medicare patients
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Which of the following acts mandated establishment of the National Practitioner Data Bank?
a. Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 b. HIPAA of 1996 c. Safe Medical Devices Act of 1990 d. Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 |
a. Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986
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which on fo the following is not a part of the National Health Care Survey?
a. national Nursing Home Survey b. National Immunization Program survey c. National Home and Hospice Care Survey d. National Ambulatory Medical care survey |
b. National Immunization Program survey
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what two databases produced by the National Library of Medicine are of special interest to HIM professionals?
a. MEDLINE and MEDPAR b. UHDDS and UMLS c. MEDLINE and UMLS d. UHDDS and UMLS |
c. MEDLINE and UMLS
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Now that registries and databases are almost universally computerized, data collection is no longer done manually |
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One advantage to a vendor system is taht purchasers can find out about the system's performance from other users |
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With regard to data quality, validity refers to the consistency of the data |
F -- the consistency of data is reliability
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The record of transactions in a computer system is caled the audit security |
F -- audit trail
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Among the HIM professional's traditional roles is that of maintaining the confidentiality of patient data |
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