RHIT EXAM PREP PRACTICE QUESTIONS (DATA ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT) 2023 LATEST UPDATE

(1) A critical early step in designing an EHR is to develop a(n) ________in which the characteristics of each data element are defined. A) Accreditation manual B) Core content C) Continuity of care record D) Data d ...

(1) A critical early step in designing an EHR is to develop a(n) ________in which the characteristics of each data element are defined. A) Accreditation manual B) Core content C) Continuity of care record D) Data dictionary D) Data dictionary (2) Once hospital discharge abstract systems were developed and their ability to provide comparative data to hospitals was established, it became necessary to develop: A) Data sets B) Data elements C) Electronic data interchange D) Bills of mortality A) Data sets (3) In healthcare, data sets serve two purposes. The first is to identify data elements to be collected about each patient. The second is to: A) Provide uniform data definitions B) Guide efforts toward computerization C) Determine statistical formulas D) Provide a research database A) Provide uniform data defintions (4) A health information technician is responsible for designing a data collection form to collect data on patients in an acute-care hospital. The first resource that she should use is: A) UHDDS B) UACDS C) MDS D) ORYX A) UHDDS (5) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the common healthcare data sets such as UHDDS and UACDS? A) They define minimum data elements to be collected B) They provide a complete and exhaustive list of data elements that must be collected C) They provide a framework for data collection to which an individual facility can add data items D) The federal government recommends, but does not mandate, implementation of most of the data sets B) They provide a complete and exhaustive list of data elements that must be collected (6) In a paper-based system, the completion of the chart is monitored in a special area of the HIM department called the ______ file. A) Incomplete record B) Permanent C) Temporary D) Remote storage A) Incomplete record (7) Consider the following sequence of numbers. What filing system is being used if these numbers represent the health record numbers of three records filed together within the filing system? 36-45-99 37-45-99 38-45-99 A) Straight numerical B) Terminal digit C) Middle digit D) Unit B) Terminal digit (8) The MPI is necessary to physically locate health records within the paper-based storage system for all types of filing systems, EXCEPT: A) Alphabetical B) Middle digit C) Terminal digit D) Straight numerical A) Alphabetical (9) The RHIT supervisor for the filing and retrieval section of Community Clinic is developing a staffing schedule for the year. The clinic is open 260 days per year and has an average of 600 clinic visits per day. The standard for filing records is 60 per hour. The standard for retrieval of records is 40 records per hour. Given these standards, how many filing hours will be required daily to retrieve and file records for each clinic day? A) 6 hours per day B) 10 hours per day C) 15 hours per day D) 25 hours per day D) 25 hours per day (10) In which of the following systems are all encounters or patient visits filed or linked together? A) Serial numbering system B) Unit numbering system C) Straight numerical filing system D) Middle-digit filing system B) Unit numbering system (11) Which of the following is a disadvantage of alphabetical filing? A) Easy to train new personnel to file B) Uneven expansion of file shelves or cabinets C) Ease of creation D) Relies on an index or authority key B) Uneven expansion of file shelves or cabinets (12) Which of the following is a request from a clinical area to check out a health record? A) Outguide folder B) Requisition C) MPI D) Patient registry B) Requisition (13) Which of the following statements describes alphabetic filing? A) File the record alphabetically by the first name, then the last name and the middle initial B) FIle the record alphabetically by the last name, then the first name and the middle initial C) File the record alphabetically by the last name, then the middle initial an the first name D) File the record alphabetically by last name only B) File the record alphabetically by the last name, then the first name and the middle initial (14) In analyzing the reason for changes in a hospital's Medicare case-mix index over time, the analyst should start with which of the following levels of detail? A) Account level B) MS-DRG level C) MDC level D) MS-DRG triples, pairs and singles D) MS-DRG triples, pairs and singles (15) Which of the following tools is usually used to track health records that have been removed from their permanent storage locations? A) Deficiency slips B) Master patient indexes C) Outguides D) Requisition slips C) Outguides (16) What is the term that is used to mean ensuring that data are not altered during transmission across a network or during storage? A) Media control B) Integrity C) Mitigation D) Audit controls B) Integrity (17) Which of the following filing methods is considered the most efficient? A) Alphabetical B) Alphanumeric C) Straight numeric D) Terminal digit D) Terminal digit (18) The primary purpose of a minimum data set in healthcare is to: A) Recommend common data elements to be collected in health records B) Mandate all data that must be contained in a health record C) Define reportable data for federally funded programs D) Standardize medical vocabulary A) Recommend common data elements to be collected in health records (19) In long-term care, the resident's care plan is based on data collected in the: A) UHDDS B) OASIS C) MDS D) HEDIS C) MDS (20) Incorporating a workflow function in an electronic information system would help support: A) Tasks that need to be performed in a specific sequence B) Moving patients from point to point C) Registration of patients D) Making computer output available on a laser disk A) Tasks that need to be performed in a specific sequence (21) An audit of a hospital's electronic health system shows that diagnostic codes are not being reported at the correct level of detail. This indicates a problem with data: A) Granularity B) Consistency C) Comprehensiveness D) Relevancy A) Granularity (22) In which of the following examples does the gender of the patient constitute information rather than a data element? A) As an entry to be completed on the face sheet of the health record B) In the note "50-year-old white male" in the patient history C) In a study comparing the incidence of myocardial infarctions in black males as compared to white females D) In a study of the age distribution of lung cancer patients C) In a study comparing the incidence of myocardial infarctions in black males as compared to white females