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HIT246 Final Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Predictive modeling: | Uses historical data to help determine future outcomes |
| Which of the following is an example of structured or discrete data? | ICD-10 codes |
| What type of graph is most appropriate to display the average length of stay by hospital? | Bar graph |
| Your facility is engaged in a research project concerning patients newly diagnosed with type II diabetes. The researchers notice that older patients have a longer length of stay than younger patients. They have seen a: | Positive correlation between age and length of stay |
| What impact does increasing the confidence level have on sample size? | Higher confidence level increases the required sample size |
| The HIM director asks an analyst to determine the appropriate sample size to use to estimate the time to code inpatient records in his department. What piece(s) of information must the analyst determine? | the desired precision of the estimate, the desired confidence level for the estimate, the historical variance in coding times |
| Which of the following is a difference between APC and MS-DRGs? | APCs are assigned to outpatient services and MS-DRGs are assigned to inpatient claims |
| Which data collection program measures the performance of health plans? | HEDIS |
| The hospital-acquired infection rate for our hospital is 0.2%, whereas the rate at a similar hospital across town is 0.3%. This is an example of a: | benchmark |
| How much is the maximum percentage of payment that can be returned to a hospital under the CMS HVBP program since 2017 and later years? | 2.0% |
| What is an example of a primary data source? | the health record |
| The term hospital death rate is synonymous with ________________: | Gross death rate |
| True or false? Patients who die in the emergency room are included in the hospital death rate. | false |
| The HIM director asks an analyst to determine the appropriate sample size to use to estimate the time to code inpatient records in his department. What piece(s) of information must the analyst determine? | the desired precision of the estimate, the desired confidence level for the estimate, the historical variance in coding times |
| How many parts is data divided if it does in the decile format? | 10 |
| This type of data is used for naming or labeling variables into specific non-ordered categories, i.e. labels or tags | nominal |
| What is another term to identify a line graph? | run charts |
| In computing the infection rate, the ratio is that of infections to _____. | total discharges |