Questions
In healthcare, data sets serve two purposes. The first is to id data elements to be collected about each
patient. The second is to:correct answerprovide uniform data definitions to aid standardization efforts
across multiple hospitals.
A HIT is responsible for designing a data collection form to collect data on pts in an acute care hospital.
The first resource to usecorrect answerUACDS
A critical early step is designing an ehr is to develop a _____________ in which each of the data
elements are designedcorrect answerdata dictionary
In long-term care, the resident's care plan is based on data collection incorrect answerUHDDS
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the common healthcare data sets such as UHDDS and
UACDScorrect answerthey provide a framework for data collection to which an individual facility can add
data items.
What is the term that is used to mean ensuring that data are not altered during transmission across a
network or during storagecorrect answerIntegrity
The primary purpose of a minimum data set in healthcare is tocorrect answermandate all data that must
be contained in a health record
a notation for a diabetic patient reads "occasionally gets hungry, no insulin reactions. She says she is
following her diet"
which part of a problem health record progress note would this be writtedcorrect answerAssessment
an audit of a hospitals health system shows that Dx codes are not being reported at the correct level of
detail
This is a problem with data:correct answergranularity
In which of the following examples does the gender of the patient constitute information rather than a
data elementcorrect answerIn a study comparing the incident of MIs in black males compared to white
females.
A core data set is developed by ASTM to communicate a pts past and current health info as pt
transitions from one care setting to anothercorrect answerMinimum Data Set
Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) uses the _________ data set for pts.correct
answerOASIS-C