RHIT - Registered Health Information Technician Healthcare Statistics and Analytics Questions and Answers

Question 1

In the month of June, a 150-bed hospital had a total of 3,600 inpatient service days. The hospital discharged 450 patients during the same period. What was the average length of stay (ALOS) for June?

Accepted Answer

8.0 days

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24.0 days

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0.125 days

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3.3 days

Question 2

A health information manager wants to create a visual presentation to show the trend of hospital-acquired infection rates over the past five years. Which of the following data display tools would be most effective for this purpose?

Accepted Answer

Line Graph

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Pie Chart

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Histogram

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Scatter Plot

Question 3

A hospital has a licensed bed count of 250. For a particular 24-hour period, the inpatient census taken at midnight was 200. What was the inpatient bed occupancy rate for that day?

Accepted Answer

80%

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125%

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50%

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20%

Question 4

A hospital had 50 patient deaths within a 30-day period. Of those, 5 were coroner's cases that were not brought back to the hospital for autopsy. The hospital pathology department performed autopsies on 18 of the remaining deaths. Which calculation represents the hospital's net autopsy rate?

Accepted Answer

(18 / 45) * 100

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(18 / 50) * 100

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(5 / 50) * 100

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(18 / 55) * 100

Question 5

When analyzing patient satisfaction survey data, an RHIT encounters a question where patients rate their overall experience on a scale of 'Poor,' 'Fair,' 'Good,' or 'Excellent.' What type of data does this represent?

Accepted Answer

Ordinal

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Nominal

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Interval

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Ratio

Question 6

A hospital analyst uses data from a sample of 100 patient charts to make a conclusion about the documentation compliance rate for the entire hospital population of 10,000 records. This is an example of which type of statistics?

Accepted Answer

Inferential statistics

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Registry statistics

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Descriptive statistics

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Vital statistics