AHIMA RHIA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

AHIMA RHIA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1141:

  Which quality management theorist focused on zero defects as the goal of performan improvement efforts?

  A. Kaizen
  B. Crosby
  C. Peters
  D. Deming
  B. Crosby

• Question 1142:

  As your meeting with the clerical staff on the stat report continues, one clerk suggests a reason for the delays is a lack of training concerning the nature of stat reports. On the cause effect diagram, this would most appropriately be listed under

  A. personnel.
  B. equipment.
  C. materials.
  D. methods.
  A. personnel.

• Question 1143:

  An organization that is a covered entity, performs functions that are covered and noncovered by HIPAA, and specifies the portion of the organization that will be subject to HIPAA is called a(n)

  A. hybrid entity.
  B. affiliated covered entity.
  C. organized health care arrangement.
  D. business associate.
  A. hybrid entity.

• Question 1144:

  Patient presents to the operating room where the physician performed, using imaging guidance, a percutaneous breast biopsy utilizing a rotating biopsy device.

  

  A. 19103
  B. 19125; 19295
  C. 19120
  D. 19000
  A. 19103

• Question 1145:

  Patient is 24 weeks' pregnant and arrives in the emergency room following an automobile accident. No fetal movement or heartbeat noted. Patient is taken to the OB ward where prostaglandin is given to induce abortion.

  A. 59200
  B. 59855
  C. 59821
  D. 59410
  B. 59855

• Question 1146:

  Your facility is implementing a new document management system. This system will require the storage of large amounts of data. Which of the following storage devices would you recommend?

  A. external hard drive
  B. CDs
  C. file server
  D. redundant arrays of independent disks
  D. redundant arrays of independent disks

• Question 1147:

  In an acute care facility, the responsibility for education physicians and other health care providers regarding proper documentation policies belongs to the

  A. information security manager.
  B. clinical data specialist.
  C. health information manager.
  D. risk manager.
  C. health information manager.

• Question 1148:

  You have had a problem with duplicate medical record numbers in your facility's MPI. Now you are joining a health information exchange, so you will need to clean up your database and prevent the duplicates from happening again. If you want to find near matches as well as identical matches in your MPI, you should implement a __________ algorithm.

  A. probabilistic
  B. deterministic
  C. fuzzy
  D. none of the above
  A. probabilistic

• Question 1149:

  You are the Quality Coordinator for the medical staff. Analyze the chart above and determine steps to be taken next.

  

  A. Plot control limits, check indicator threshold, and take December charts to OB/GYN Committee if threshold exceeded.
  B. Plot control limits and take December charts to OB/GYN Committee if December data poi exceeds UCL.
  C. Plot control limits, pull charts for December, and do a focused review screening.
  D. Plot control limits and refer to Medical Executive Committee for variation review.
  A. Plot control limits, check indicator threshold, and take December charts to OB/GYN Committee if threshold exceeded.

• Question 1150:

  In the diagnosis "first-, second-, and third-degree burns of the chest wall," a code is required for

  A. the first-degree burn only.
  B. the second-degree burn only.
  C. the third-degree burn only.
  D. each first-, second-, and third-degree burn.
  C. the third-degree burn only.