Registries and Statistics Final

A type of research that tries to discover a relationship between variables and may use questionnaires, observations, and secondary date as it's collection methods is called

Correlational research

A group of 106 children is seen at the hematology specialty clinic in one week. 36 have classic hemophilia type a; 70 have other bleeding or blood disorders. What is the portion of people in the group that have classic hemophilia type a? Express in a decimal and round to two decimal places

0.34 36/(36+70)= 0.34

The newborn death rate is

0.58% (2x100)/344=0.58%

The patient was admitted at 2:00 in the morning and was transferred discharged to another facility at 5:00 in the evening the same day. What is the length of stay?

1

What are the three important reasons a literature review would be performed before a study?

1,3, and 6 only

A hospital has 130 beds that are set up and staffed. An earthquake hits the area and all the beds are occupied, plus 15 additional patients are admitted to a temporary room (half the cafeteria). What is the bed count for the day?

130

A small hospital has 110 full-time employees. 20% are out with the Norovirus. How many employees are sick and how many are healthy?

22 sick/88 healthy

Metro hospital has 830 bassinet nursery. They have a total of 729 newborn service days for the month of May. What is the average daily census for me? Round to the nearest whole number

24 729/31 = 23.5 equal 24

A group of 16 men and 24 women have hypertension. Express the ratio of men with hypertension to women with hypertension. Reduce the ratio to its simplest form

2:3 16:24 = 8:12 = 4:6 = 2:3

General Hospital is a small hospital in the eastern United States. It is licensed for 65 beds. They have a medical PCU (20 beds), a pediatric PCU seven beds, a surgical PCU (19 beds), OB/GYN PCU (13 beds) and a trauma PCU (six beds). In addition they have 8 newborn beds. At census time midnight, on July 16, 2011, General Hospital counted 52 A/C patients occupying an inpatient bed and two newborns were occupying bassinets. During the next 24 hour. Period the following occurred. What is the inpatient census for newborn on July 17, 2011 for the nursery?

3

Over the past year, community hospital had 5852 discharges and deaths and 150 beds. Calculate the bed turnover rate.

39.01 5,852/150=39.01

General Hospital is a small hospital in the eastern United States. It is licensed for 65 beds. They have a medical PCU (20 beds), a pediatric PCU seven beds, a surgical PCU (19 beds), OB/GYN PCU (13 beds) and a trauma PCU (six beds). In addition they have 8 newborn beds. At census time midnight, on July 16, 2011, General Hospital counted 52 A/C patients occupying an inpatient bed and two newborns were occupying bassinets. During the next 24 hour. Period the following occurred. What is the inpatient service days for newborn on July 17, 2011 for the nursery?

4

A small hospital had a medicine unit of 12 beds with 36 discharges in May. Those patients had discharge days of 155 days. What is the ALOS for these patients?

4.31 days

Children's Hospital reported that they had 750 inpatient service days in there adolescent medicine unit. Of those, 347 were Dr. Anderson's patients. What percentage of inpatient service days did Dr. Anderson have in the adolescent medicine unit? Round to one Decimal Place.

46.3% 347x100/750=34,700/750=46.3%

A gynecologist sees 75 women in one week. 42 were seen for their annual preventative exam and received Pap smears. Express the rate of Pap smears performed in this week. Expressed the answer in percent

56% (42x100)/75= 4,200/75=56%

Community hospital has a steady inpatient bed count of 175 beds that are set up and staff, though the hospital was constructed for 200 beds. What would have been the bed count days for the year 20XX (a non-leap year)?

63,875 175 x 365 days = 63,875

It's a researcher is able to measure what he intended to measure, this is referred to as

Validity

What is the wait time for a patient who arrives at a physicians office at 8:05 AM and is seen by the physician at 9:15 AM?

70 minutes

Community hospitals bed count was 150 from November 1 through November 15. On November 15 the bed count changed to 175. The inpatient service days for the month are 3978. What is the percentage of occupancy for November?

81.6%

The agency that tries to make healthcare safer; of higher quality; and more accessible, equitable, and affordable is

AHRQ

A discharge from the hospital occurs when

All of the above

Which of the following are essential components for a hospital autopsy?

All of the above

What is the term given to describe the count of patients present at a specific time and in a particular place in a hospital setting?

An inpatient census

In______research, the researcher would like to discover new information and use that information to solve some problems

Applied

Community Physician's clinic have received several complaints that patients have to wait an inordinate amount of time to see specialists in the clinic. The administrator asked the HIM manager to construct a graph that will show how long patients had to wait to see the gastroenterologist, endocrinologist, and dermatologist. She wanted the graph to include the number of patients who waited more than four weeks, 3 to 4 weeks, 1 to 2 weeks, less than one week, and the number who were able to have an appointment on the day they called for all three specialty. which would be the best graph to show this information?

Bar graph

Physicians from the community physicians clinic are trying to convince their administration that they need more exam rooms to accommodate their patients. They ask the HIM manager to construct a graph showing the number of patients seen in the last year by the clinic physicians. The categories they wish to have displayed are primary care: 6798; medical specialties: 3423; surgical specialties: 3367; and hospital outpatient: 1209. Which type of graph would be appropriate?

Bar graph

A division of the department of health and human services that manages the policies for the Medicare and Medicaid population is the

CMS

Which of the following is the lead agency responsible for protecting the health of the US population?

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The type of statistics that describe the characteristics of a group or population is called

Descriptive statistics

_______statistics are used to explain data in ways that are manageable and easily understood

Descriptive statistics

A type of observation in which the researcher listens and sometimes talks with the research subjects in as natural an environment as possible it's called

Ethnography

Dr. Gunter, a physician at the community physicians clinic, developed a weight-loss program that he instituted with some volunteer patience. After six months he is interested in studying whether or not the weight loss program is working. This is an example of

Evaluation research

The physical therapy director of your facility wants to test the effectiveness of an exercise plan for a group of employees. He divided the employees into two groups at random, and each employee was given a set of instructions on a type of exercise to perform each day. The employees do not know what the exercise is for. The employees are evaluated after one month and no differences were found in the exercise plan, which lead the physical therapy director to suggest that the exercise plan was not effective. This was an example of

Experimental research

True/false: patients who die in the emergency room are included in the hospital death rate

False

True/false: when conducting research, most researchers are looking to confirm the null hypothesis

False

True/false? It is not necessary to validate statistical reports in a healthcare setting if they are computer generated. Computers don't make calculation mistakes.

False

The term hospital death rate is synonymous with

Gross death rate

Community hospital just hired a contract coder who charges five dollars per Record Coded. Last week she coded 300 records. The contract coder would work 52 weeks. The HIM manager would like to hire a FTE instead of using a contract coder. She finds an experienced coder who wants a salary of $25 per hour. The hospital has a 30% benefit package.

Hire the full-time experienced coder

A statement of the predicted relationship among variables in measurable terms is called a/the

Hypothesis

Which of the following applies to a unit of service received by one inpatient in one 24 hour period?

Inpatient service days

This committee has the primary responsibility to protect the right and welfare of human research subjects

Institutional review board (IRB)

Which of the following graphs would be best for the cancer registrar to use to display the 10 year survival rates of breast cancer patients at your hospital?

Line graph

Miss Black is an inpatient coder who codes 40 hours per week. On the average she codes seven records an hour. She earns $17 per hour. Miss Green is in inpatient coder who codes 40 hours per week. On the average she codes six records an hour. She earns $14.50 per hour. Who has the lower unit cost per record?

Miss Green

If a hospital facility is licensed for 150 beds and they want to add 25 more licensed beds they _____.

Must apply to the state for a certificate of need (CON)

In a clinical trial of a new pancreatic stimulant for type two diabetes, the______hypothesis might be that the new pancreatic stimulate is not better, on average, than the current pancreatic stimulant. The_____Hypothesis can be stated as "there is no difference between the two pancreatic stimulants on average".

Null

In a clinical trial of a new pancreatic stimulant for type two diabetes, the_____hypothesis might be that the new pancreatic stimulant is no better, on average, then the current pancreatic stimulants. The_____Hypothesis can be stated as, "there is no difference between the two pancreatic stimulants on average."

Null

The Adjusted Hospital Autopsy Rate includes:

Patients whose bodies are available for autopsy minus coroners cases

The quality improvement department is planning to select 50 patient satisfaction surveys from patients discharged who were between the ages of 50 to 64. This is an example of a_____sample

Quota

The criterion used for rejecting the null hypothesis is called a/the

Significance level

The type of data collection technique that relies on questions asked of a respondent is

Survey

A hospital that is allowed to use it's beds for either acute care or skilled care is referred to as a

Swing bed hospital

A clinical drug trial is being conducted on a group of men between the ages of 50 and 60 who has BPH. The hypothesis was that the men receiving the new drug would show significant shrinkage in the size of their prostate than those who received a placebo. The null hypothesis for the above scenario would be

The effects of the new BPH drug versus the placebo are not significantly different

A Clinical drug trial is being conducted on a group of men between the ages of 50 and 60 who have BPH. The hypothesis was that the men receiving the new drug would show significant shrinkage in the size of the prostate than those who received a placebo. The alternative hypothesis for the above scenario would be

The effects of the new BPH drug versus the placebo are significantly different

Which of the following is considered a source of primary data?

The health Record

The smaller the P value

The more evidence we should reject the null hypothesis

Health statistics provide information about the health of which of the following?

The population in general

A patient who delivers live triplets is credited with _____.

Three births and one delivery

The bed count times the number of days in a period under consideration is called _____.

Total bed count days

T/F: leave of absence days are calculated when computing the discharge days

True

True/False: The difference between inpatient service days and discharge days is that service days are compiled while the patient is hospitalized and discharge days are compiled after the patient has been discharged from the hospital

True

True/false: the gross autopsy rate includes only inpatient autopsies

True

The patient was in a motorcycle accident. He has an open procedure on his right humerus and an open procedure performed on his left femur. This patient had

Two operations and two procedures

What type of error would occur if it were concluded that the new pancreatic stimulant produced different effects (than the current pancreatic stimulant) when in actuality there was no difference between them?

Type I

In a clinical trial of a new pancreatic stimulant for type two diabetes, the______hypothesis might be that the new pancreatic stimulate is not better, on average, than the current pancreatic stimulant. The_____Hypothesis can be stated as "there is no difference between the two pancreatic stimulants on average". What type of error would occur if it were concluded that the new pancreatic stimulant produced the same affects as the current pancreatic stimulant (there is no difference between the new and the current pancreatic stimulants on average), when in fact they produce different ones?

Type II

What type of error would occur if it were concluded that the new pancreatic stimulant produced the same affects as the current pancreatic stimulant (there is no difference between the new and the current pancreatic stimulants on average), when in fact they produced different ones?

Type II

Inpatient discharges include

a, b, and c only

Which of the following are unprocessed facts and figures?

data

Which of the following is NOT used in figuring occupancy rates?

discharges

The type of research that examines past events is called

historical research

_________ means the state of being diseased or the number of sick persons or cases of disease in relation to a specific population

morbidity

Which type of research is subjective and process oriented?

qualitative research

The number obtained by dividing the numerator of a fraction by the denominator is called

quotient

A type of sampling method in which every individual has an equal chance of being selected

random sample

What are the four types or scales of measurement of categorical data?

ratio, interval, nominal, ordinal