AHIMA RHIA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

AHIMA RHIA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1131:

  Dr. Smith needs something small and lightweight to use for dictating reports and entering on the go. You suggest he use

  A. a laptop utilizing wireless technology.
  B. a VPN.
  C. voice recognition.
  D. a PDA.
  D. a PDA.

• Question 1132:

  Your facility is part of a community health information network and you belong to a committee charged with the responsibility of encouraging the uniform collection and reporting of data. Among your recommendations is the adoption of a common

  A. data set.
  B. forms design.
  C. record format.
  D. data quality monitoring system.
  A. data set.

• Question 1133:

  As database administrator, you have just added a foreign key to one of your tables. Why did do this?

  A. the data element refers to ethnicity
  B. to indicate that it is a primary key in another table
  C. to ensure that each row is unique
  D. to separate two tables
  B. to indicate that it is a primary key in another table

• Question 1134:

  The coder with the highest overall accuracy rating will get the day after Thanksgiving off. Which coder will get to spend the day after Thanksgiving shopping rather than coding? The coding supervisor at Bayside Hospital regularly has her coders recode records from the previous week in an effort to improve and monitor coding consistency. The supervisor has collected the data displayed below on four coders.

  

  A. Coder A
  B. Coder B
  C. Coder C
  D. Coder D
  C. Coder C

• Question 1135:

  The transcriptionists have collected data on the number and types of problems with the dictation equipment. The best tool to display the data they collected is a

  A. flowchart.
  B. Pareto chart.
  C. Gantt chart.
  D. PERT chart.
  B. Pareto chart.

• Question 1136:

  Elizabeth Hoke is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Anywhere Medical Center. At the beginning of each fiscal year, she begins a formal planning cycle. Her annual planning process should begin with which of the following?

  A. revising the institutional mission
  B. developing strategic plans
  C. establishing the annual organizational objectives
  D. developing strategic goals
  C. establishing the annual organizational objectives

• Question 1137:

  A data use agreement allows the organization receiving the data to

  A. use the non-PHI data any way they want.
  B. use PHI data any way they want.
  C. use data only within the bounds of the agreement.
  D. conduct business for the organization.
  C. use data only within the bounds of the agreement.

• Question 1138:

  You are responsible for calculating and reporting average length of stay (ALOS) for your hospital each month. This month, there were 92 discharges and the total discharge days equal 875. One of the patients discharged this month had a total of 428 discharge days, so the ALOS is distorted by this unusually long stay. In this situation, you should report an ALOS of

  A. 9.51 days; no further information is necessary.
  B. 9.61 days and make a note that the one patient with an unusually long LOS was subtracted prior to making the calculation.
  C. 4.86 days and make a note that one unusually long LOS was subtracted prior to making the calculation.
  D. 4.91 days and make a note that the data on one patient with an unusually long LOS was subtracted prior to making the calculation.
  D. 4.91 days and make a note that the data on one patient with an unusually long LOS was subtracted prior to making the calculation.

• Question 1139:

  What data cannot be retrieved from the MEDPAR?

  A. ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes
  B. charges broken down by specific types of services
  C. non-Medicare patient data
  D. data on the provider
  C. non-Medicare patient data

• Question 1140:

  Harry H. Potter was admitted to your hospital to receive a second round of chemotherapy for an invasive tumor. Four days after admission, Harry complained of a sore throat and developed a fever. Harry's throat culture was positive for strep. His strep throat will be

  A. added to the denominator of the hospital's nosocomial infection rate.
  B. added to the numerator of the hospital's community-acquired infection rate.
  C. considered separately because Harry H. Potter is immune suppressed from chemotherapy.
  D. added to the numerator of the hospital's nosocomial infection rate.
  D. added to the numerator of the hospital's nosocomial infection rate.