Data Analytics & Reporting Flashcards
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A CMRT is asked to generate a report on 30-day post-discharge mortality rates. Which data source is most essential for this analysis?
Answer: Death registry linked to discharge data
Linking death registry data to inpatient discharge data is required to identify patients who died within 30 days after hospital discharge.
In a run chart used for quality monitoring, what does a 'shift' indicate?
Answer: Six or more consecutive data points on the same side of the median
A shift in a run chart is defined as six or more consecutive points all above or all below the median, signaling a non-random change in the process.
Which ICD-10-CM coding guideline directly affects the accuracy of comorbidity data reported for analytics?
Answer: Reporting additional diagnoses that affect patient management or length of stay
Official guidelines require coding additional diagnoses that affect care or LOS, and omitting relevant comorbidities skews comorbidity analytics.
What is the primary purpose of a health data warehouse in a hospital system?
Answer: To integrate data from multiple source systems for enterprise-wide reporting and analysis
A data warehouse consolidates data from disparate systems (EHR, billing, lab, pharmacy) into a centralized repository optimized for reporting and analysis.
A facility's coding productivity report shows a coder averaging 18 records per day while the standard is 25. Which additional metric should be reviewed before drawing conclusions?
Answer: The coder's error rate and case complexity
Lower productivity may reflect high case complexity or excellent accuracy; reviewing error rates and complexity ensures a fair performance assessment.
Which federal database is the primary source for national inpatient hospital discharge statistics used for benchmarking?
Answer: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) NIS
The HCUP National Inpatient Sample (NIS) is the largest publicly available all-payer inpatient database, widely used for national benchmarking.
When a CMRT discovers that the same patient has two Medical Record Numbers (MRNs) in the master patient index, what data quality problem does this represent?
Answer: Duplicate records / patient identity fragmentation
A patient with two MRNs is a duplicate record, which fragments the patient's care history and compromises the integrity of analytics using that MPI.