RHIT Exam Prep (201-250)

Question 1

Legal term when patient has the right to maintain control over certain personal information:

Accepted Answer

Privacy

Question 2

What term is used for the number of inpatients present at any one time in a healthcare facility

Accepted Answer

Census

Question 3

Which of the following is an example of how an internal user utilizes secondary data?

Accepted Answer

Benchmarking with other facilities

Question 4

Policy that dictates how long health records must remain available to authorized users?

Accepted Answer

Retention policies

Question 5

Which of the following is an example of a business associate?

Accepted Answer

Contract coder

Question 6

In a frequency distribution, the lowest value is 5 & highest value is 20. What is the range?

Accepted Answer

15

Question 7

Which of following has access to personally identifiable data without authorization or subpoena

Accepted Answer

Public health department for disease reporting purposes

Question 8

Mr. J was admitted on March 21 and discharged April 1. What was the length of stay for Mr. J?

Accepted Answer

11 days

Question 9

Which of the following uniquely identifies each record in a database table?

Accepted Answer

Primary key

Question 10

In displaying the parts of a whole in graphic form, what graphic techniques would you use?

Accepted Answer

Pie chart

Question 11

What is the mean for the following frequency distribution: 10, 15, 20, 25, 25?

Accepted Answer

19

Question 12

Unit of measure used to indicate the services received by one inpatient in a 24-hour period?

Accepted Answer

Inpatient service day

Question 13

Rate used to compare the # of inpatient deaths to the total # of inpatient deaths & discharges?

Accepted Answer

Gross hospital death rate

Question 14

Given the numbers 47, 20, 11, 33, 30, 30, 35, and 50, what is the mode?

Accepted Answer

30

Question 15

Written business associate agreements are required with:

Accepted Answer

Any outside company that handles electronic PHI

Question 16

Why is the MEDPAR file limited in terms of being used for research purposes?

Accepted Answer

It only contains Medicare patients

Question 17

Which document directs an individual to bring originals or copies of records to court?

Accepted Answer

Subpoena duces tecum

Question 18

After cases in trauma registry have been determined, what is the next step in data acquisition?

Accepted Answer

Abstracting

Question 19

Which term is used to describe the number of calendar days that a patient is hospitalized?

Accepted Answer

Length of stay

Question 20

Which is a technique for graphically depicting the structure of a computer database?

Accepted Answer

Data model

Question 21

Which rate describes the probability or risk of illness in a population over a period of time?

Accepted Answer

Incidence

Question 22

Review of pathology & radiation therapy reports are parts of which function of cancer registry?

Accepted Answer

Case finding

Questions 22