AHIMA AHIMA Certifications RHIA Questions & Answers

• Question 1561:

  The Director of the Health Information Services Department has asked that the supervisor pf coding institute a method to monitor the accuracy of coding. What method would be the most effective approach?

  A. Perform a 100% review of one of the employees' work each day.

  B. Review a sample of each employee's work annually.

  C. Review a random sample of each employee's work monthly.

  D. Have each employee check each other's work and report any problems to the supervisor.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 1562:

  Strong lateral relationships within a facility are most likely when

  A. vertical relationships are less than adequate.

  B. individual departments cooperate together to achieve organizational goals.

  C. individual departments are only interested in their internal goals.

  D. individual departments avoid one another.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 1563:

  The manager of a Health Information Department has many training and development methods available for the departmental and nondepartmental staff. Consider the following situation. The department's working hours are 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. After 6:00 PM, if a record is needed in the emergency room for a possible readmission, the ER clerk has access to the HID in order to retrieve the record. On the occasions when the ER clerk has retrieved a record, she has left the department open, the records have been pulled and not replaced, and it appears as if the clerk was viewing records unnecessarily. What would be the best training or development method for the ER clerk in order to rectify this situation?

  A. receive training by an ER coworker

  B. receive training by an expert in record documentation

  C. attend an outside workshop or seminar

  D. receive training by the supervisor of files

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 1564:

  Adding the UCL (upper control limit) and LCL (lower control limit) to the chart ?

  

  A. control chart.

  B. frequency distribution.

  C. run chart.

  D. variation graph.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 1565:

  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.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 1566:

  The average percent of patients exceeding acceptable waiting time was 3.7% (see table for question number 91). The calculated UCL is 9.4. When you plot the upper and lower limits, what would you suggest as the reason for the June variation?

  A. common cause variation

  B. root cause variation

  C. special cause variation

  D. unable to determine with the data given

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 1567:

  Which of the following is incorrect about the use of control charts?

  A. Control charts can be used to measure key processes over time.

  B. The upper and lower control limits are always ?2 standard deviations.

  C. The lower control limits are always ?2 standard deviations.

  D. The upper control limits are always ?1.8 standard deviations.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 1568:

  Using the information in the table below, calculate the average percentage of patients for the entire year who waited longer than an acceptable amount of waiting time. (The sample size for each month's data is 100.)

  

  A. 3.1%

  B. 3.6%

  C. 3.7%

  D. 4.0%

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 1569:

  The following "sentinel events" must be available for Joint Commission review EXCEPT

  A. infant abduction.

  B. petechiae due to adverse drug reaction.

  C. rape.

  D. surgery on wrong patient or wrong body part.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 1570:

  Quality requirements of providers participating in the Medicare program are found in all EXCEPT the

  A. Conditions of Participation.

  B. Federal Register.

  C. ORYX.

  D. QIO regulations governing work scope.

  Correct Answer: C