RHIT Data Integrity and Quality 4

Question 1

Which activity is an example of secondary data use in healthcare?

Accepted Answer

A researcher using de-identified records to study readmission rates

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A physician reviewing a patient's medication list during a visit

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A nurse documenting vital signs in the EHR

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A coder assigning a diagnosis code to a current encounter

Question 2

What is the key distinction between data accuracy and data precision?

Accepted Answer

Accuracy reflects how close data is to the true value; precision reflects the level of detail or specificity

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Accuracy is about format; precision is about completeness

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Accuracy applies to coded data; precision applies to free-text data

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Accuracy is a system property; precision is a user property

Question 3

Which method is used to assess data quality by examining a subset of records rather than all records?

Accepted Answer

Statistical sampling

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Benchmarking

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Normalization

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Data profiling

Question 4

Which data quality problem occurs when the same patient has two separate Medical Record Numbers in the same facility?

Accepted Answer

Duplicate record

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Overlay

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Overlap

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Fragmented record

Question 5

A record overlay in an EHR is most dangerous because it:

Accepted Answer

Results in one patient's health information appearing in another patient's record

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Creates extra storage costs

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Causes a billing code to be unassigned

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Delays discharge summary completion

Question 6

Which of the following BEST describes a master patient index (MPI)?

Accepted Answer

A registry of all patients ever treated at a facility, linking all their encounters

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A database of ICD codes used for billing

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A list of all physicians with admitting privileges

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A directory of insurance payer contracts

Question 7

Data 'currency' (also called timeliness) is most critical in which of the following situations?

Accepted Answer

Alerting a physician to a critical lab value

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Archiving historical discharge summaries

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Running an annual coding productivity report

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Generating a five-year trend analysis of DRG weights