RHIA

RHIA practice questions, page 13 of 73, with answer review and explanations.

Question 61

As a trauma registrar working in an emergency department, you want to begin comparing your trauma care services to other hospital-based emergency departments. To ensure that your facility is collecting the same data as other facilities, you review elements from which data set?

  1. DEEDS.
  2. UHDDS.
  3. MDS.
  4. ORYX.

Question 62

As a new HIM manager of an acute care facility, you have been asked to update the facilitys policy for a physicians verbal orders in accordance with Joint Commission standards and state law. Your first area of concern is the qualifications of those individuals in your facility who have been authorized to record verbal orders. For this information, you will consult

  1. Consolidated Manual for Hospitals
  2. Federal Register
  3. Policy and Procedure Manual
  4. Hospital Bylaws, Rules, and Regulations

Question 63

Reviewing a medical record to ensure that all diagnoses are justified by documentation throughout the chart is an example of

  1. peer review.
  2. quantitative review.
  3. qualitative review.
  4. legal analysis.

Question 64

Accreditation by Joint Commission is a voluntary activity for a facility and it is

  1. a considered unnecessary by most health care facilities.
  2. required for state licensure in all states.
  3. conducted in each facility annually.
  4. required for reimbursement of certain patient groups.

Question 65

Which of the following indices might be protected from unauthorized access through t he use of unique identifier codes assigned to members of the medical staff?

  1. disease index.
  2. procedure index.
  3. master patient index.
  4. physician index.