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CERTIFIED DOCUMENTATION INTERGRITY
PRACTITIONER EXAM–CDIP EXAM A, B & C WITH 500
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE JUST RELEASED THIS YEAR
CDIP EXAM A
Question: Anywhere Hospital has been experiencing problems interacting with the medical staff.
Anywhere should utilize which committee to assist these problems?
A) Compliance committee
B) Executive committee
C) Medical staff committee
D) Oversight committee - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D) Oversight committee
Question: Dr. Smith is the physician advisor for a 200-bed hospital in the south. He has a very
close relationship with the physicians within this small facility and they all share many of the
patients. Dr Smith should:
A) Tell the physicians he has the best relationships with the physicians and can tell them what to
document
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B) Document specifically what is needed in the health record for the patient
C) Not tell or ask a treating physician to document something specifically
D) Respond to queries on patients they both have seen in the past 3 years - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔C) Not tell or ask a treating physician to document something specifically
Question: To ensure a CDI program is successful and sustainable it should have:
A) Physician leadership
B) Metrics
C) A CDI manager
D) Resources such as CDI software - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A) Physician leadership
Question: Terms synonymous with query are clarification, clinical clarification, documentation
alert, and ______?
A) Inquiry
B) Documentation clarification
C) None, query is the only term
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D) Physician query - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔B) Documentation clarification
Question: Queries should have a(n) _____ answer.
A) Open-ended
B) Yes or no
C) Multiple-choice
D) All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D) All of the above
Question: For accurate reporting and payment of hospital-acquired conditions, which of the
following questions are important?
A) Is there documented clinical evidence that the condition was present during the
hospitalization?
B) Is the condition present on admission?
C) Was the condition present at the time of discharge?
D) Both A and B - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D) Both A and B
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Question: A patient presented to the ED with a fever and WBCs at 25,000. The patient was
experiencing fatigue and altered metal status and complaint of pain in the pelvic area. The
patient also had elevated blood sugar of 286, was thought to be in ketoacidosis, and was
subsequently admitted. The physician documented catheter-associated UTI at discharge. Based
on the physician documentation, the CDS may want to query for?
A) UTI being present on admission
B) Type of organism
C) Uncontrolled diabetes
D) No query warranted - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A) UTI being present on admission
Q:When trying to determine if documentation is present to substantiate status asthmaticus, the
coder should review the record for what terms and phrases?
A) Intractable pneumonia
B) Refractory asthma and severe, intractable wheezing
C) Airway obstruction relieved by bronchodilators
D) Limited but pronounced wheezing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔B) Refractory asthma and severe,
intractable wheezing
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CERTIFIED DOCUMENTATION INTERGRITY
PRACTITIONER EXAM–CDIP EXAM A, B & C WITH 500
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE JUST RELEASED THIS YEAR
CDIP EXAM A
Question: Anywhere Hospital has been experiencing problems interacting with the medical staff.
Anywhere should utilize which committee to assist these problems?
A) Compliance committee
B) Executive committee
C) Medical staff committee
D) Oversight committee - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D) Oversight committee
Question: Dr. Smith is the physician advisor for a 200-bed hospital in the south. He has a very
close relationship with the physicians within this small facility and they all share many of the
patients. Dr Smith should:
A) Tell the physicians he has the best relationships with the physicians and can tell them what to
document
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B) Document specifically what is needed in the health record for the patient
C) Not tell or ask a treating physician to document something specifically
D) Respond to queries on patients they both have seen in the past 3 years - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔C) Not tell or ask a treating physician to document something specifically
Question: To ensure a CDI program is successful and sustainable it should have:
A) Physician leadership
B) Metrics
C) A CDI manager
D) Resources such as CDI software - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A) Physician leadership
Question: Terms synonymous with query are clarification, clinical clarification, documentation
alert, and ______?
A) Inquiry
B) Documentation clarification
C) None, query is the only term
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D) Physician query - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔B) Documentation clarification
Question: Queries should have a(n) _____ answer.
A) Open-ended
B) Yes or no
C) Multiple-choice
D) All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D) All of the above
Question: For accurate reporting and payment of hospital-acquired conditions, which of the
following questions are important?
A) Is there documented clinical evidence that the condition was present during the
hospitalization?
B) Is the condition present on admission?
C) Was the condition present at the time of discharge?
D) Both A and B - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D) Both A and B
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Question: A patient presented to the ED with a fever and WBCs at 25,000. The patient was
experiencing fatigue and altered metal status and complaint of pain in the pelvic area. The
patient also had elevated blood sugar of 286, was thought to be in ketoacidosis, and was
subsequently admitted. The physician documented catheter-associated UTI at discharge. Based
on the physician documentation, the CDS may want to query for?
A) UTI being present on admission
B) Type of organism
C) Uncontrolled diabetes
D) No query warranted - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A) UTI being present on admission
Q:When trying to determine if documentation is present to substantiate status asthmaticus, the
coder should review the record for what terms and phrases?
A) Intractable pneumonia
B) Refractory asthma and severe, intractable wheezing
C) Airway obstruction relieved by bronchodilators
D) Limited but pronounced wheezing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔B) Refractory asthma and severe,
intractable wheezing
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