Epic Skills Assessment Data and Chart Interpretation Questions and Answers Flashcards
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A patient's lab results show a potassium level of 5.8 mEq/L displayed in red on the Epic flowsheet. What does the red color coding typically indicate?
Answer: The value is critically abnormal
Red color coding in Epic flowsheets indicates a critically abnormal value that requires immediate clinical attention.
When reviewing a trend graph in Epic for a patient's hemoglobin levels over 7 days, which feature allows you to compare it side-by-side with another lab value?
Answer: Multi-parameter overlay
The multi-parameter overlay feature in Epic allows clinicians to plot multiple lab values on the same trend graph for comparison.
A bar chart in an Epic report shows monthly patient encounter volumes. March has 1,200 encounters and April has 900. What is the approximate percentage decrease from March to April?
Answer: 25%
The decrease is 300 out of 1,200, which equals 25%.
In Epic's MyChart Bedside, a patient views a line graph of their daily temperature readings. The graph shows values of 99.1, 100.4, 101.2, and 99.8 over four days. What trend does this data represent?
Answer: An increase followed by a decrease
The temperatures rise from 99.1 to 101.2 over the first three days and then drop to 99.8, showing an increase followed by a decrease.
A pie chart in an Epic dashboard shows department utilization: Surgery 35%, Medicine 28%, Pediatrics 20%, and Other 17%. If total capacity is 500 beds, how many beds does Medicine occupy?
Answer: 140
28% of 500 beds equals 140 beds allocated to the Medicine department.
When interpreting a scatter plot of patient wait times versus time of day in Epic's reporting workbench, clusters of dots appearing at 8 AM and 5 PM suggest what pattern?
Answer: Peak wait times correlate with shift change periods
Clusters at 8 AM and 5 PM indicate that wait times spike during common shift change periods when handoffs and staffing transitions occur.