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MOPS Filing Unit Test Review

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Name the five steps to filing in the correct order.   Conditioning, Releasing, Indexing, Coding, and Sorting.  
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What is Conditioning?   Removing paper clips and staples  
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What is Releasing?   Physicians initials - ok to file  
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What is Indexing?   Deciding where to file  
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What is Coding?   Underlining Subject  
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What is Sorting?   Papers face up, most recent on top  
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Transferring a file means:   Sending file from active to inactive to closed  
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What is used as a temporary replacement of folders/charts removed from the permanent files?   Out guides or out folders  
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Card files with the names of the 12 months and numbered 1 through 31 in chronological order is referred to as:   Tickler file  
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A person's surname refers to his/her:   Last name  
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In filing, nothing comes before:   Something  
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A numeric filing system is an indirect filing system, that would require a:   Alphabetic cross reference  
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A direct system is alphabetical and would not need a:   Cross reference  
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In alphabetical filing, Unit I, Unit II, and Unit III refer to:   Unit I - last name (surname) Unit II - first name (given name) Unit III - middle name  
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Deciding where to file a paper is known as   Indexing  
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Files that are reserved for current, on-going patients would be referred to as:   Active  
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What gives support to the file folders and visually cuts search time?   Divider guides  
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When space is limited, the best economical choice for filing would be:   Open shelf lateral  
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Micro-records are also known as:   Microfilm or microfiche  
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What is the medium that photographed records are saved on?   Microfilm or microfiche  
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Vital papers such as titles, deeds or other legal documents should be kept:   Indefinitely  
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If patient is still living the case history is kept:   Indefinitely  
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One example of a built-in safeguard to prevent misfiling is:   Color coding  
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When there may be confusion over surnames, such as in the case of a female patient who has just married and taken on her husband's name, the file should be:   Cross referenced  
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Tax records should be kept in:   Archives  
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A filing system is only as good as the:   Findability (of everything in it)  
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Canceled checks should be kept:   Three years in a fireproof cabinet and indefinitely in dead storage  
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Another name for a terminated patient file is:   Closed file  
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Financial statements, such as payroll, records, active correspondence, and triage notes are kept:   7 years  
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Insurance policies are kept:   Current policy in a fireproof cabinet, expired policies can be thrown away unless there is a case pending  
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Professional liability -   policies are kept indefinitely  
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