Terminology
Identify the term that best refers to the systematic process of data collection, repeated over time or at a single point in time.
Measurement is the systematic process of data collection repeated over time or at a single point in time.
The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity or degree.
What is proportion.
Example: There ten male patients in a rehabilitation facility of twenty-five patients
Which of the following rates compares the deaths due to a specific cause to the total number of deaths from all causes?
What is proportionate mortality rate
The _______ is the average relative weight of all cases treated at a given facility which reflects the resource intensity or clinical severity of a specific group in relation to other groups in the classification system.
What is CMI or case mix index
___________ is not a content item on the US certificate of live birth.
The father’s mailing address is not a standard content item on the US certificate of live birth. Father’s information includes current legal name, date of birth, birthplace, education, race, SSN, and whether he is of Hispanic origin.
Classifying head injuries according to level of severity is an example of which type of data?
What is ordinal-level
Identify the appropriate term for the bed count multiplied by the number of days in a period.
Total bed count days is the bed count times the number of days in a period of time.
What is the formula for calculating average daily census?
Numerator: Total number of Inpatient service days for a given period
Denominator: Total number of days in same period
An outpatient who is provided special diagnostic or therapeutic services by a hospital on an ambulatory basis but whose medical care remains the responsibility of the referring physician is identified as which of the following?
What is referred outpatient
Identify the appropriate statistical term that refers to important events in our lives, such as births, deaths, and divorces.
Vital statistics are events in our lives such as birth, death, and divorce.
A calculation found by dividing one quantity by another. A general term that can include a number of specific measures such as proportion, percentage, and rate.
What is Ratio.
Example: the comparison of the number of female patients to the number of male patients who were discharged from MS-DRG YYY
What is the official count of inpatients taken at midnight.
Daily inpatient census is the official count of inpatients taken at midnight.
What is the formula for calculating inpatient/average length of stay (ALOS)?
Numerator: Total length of stay for a given period
Denominator: Total number of discharges including deaths, for the same period
What is a single, separate, systematic process upon or within the body that can be complete in itself called?
What is a surgical procedure
A hospital-acquired infection is also identified as which of the following?
What is nosocomial infection
________ is the term is used for the number of inpatients present at any one time in a healthcare facility?
Census is the number of inpatients present at any one time at a facility.
Identify the correct information subtracted out when calculating the net death rate for a period.
The number of deaths occurring within 48 hours of admission for the period. Deaths occurring within 48 hours of admission are not used to calculate the net death rate.
What is the formula for calculating hospital autopsy rate?
Numerator: Total number of hospital autopsies for the period x 100
Denominator: Total numbers of deaths of hospital patients with bodies available for hospital autopsy for the period
The CMI is calculated by adding the _______ for all Medicare discharges and dividing by the number of Medicare discharges.
MS-DRG weights
Which of the following rates describes the number of new cases of an illness for a specific time period
incidence rate
Identify the appropriate term used for the number of inpatients present at the census-taking time each day, plus any inpatients who were both admitted and discharged after the census-taking time the previous day.
Daily census is the number is inpatients present at the census-taking time each day, plus admissions and discharges.
What is not a scale of measurement?
Intermittent is not a scale of measurement. The four scales of measurement are continuous data, discrete data, nominal-level data, and ratio-level data.
Determine which of the following rates is used to compare the number of deaths of infants from 28 days of age up to, but not including, one year of age to the total number of live births minus the neonatal deaths?
What is postneonatal death rate
Last year, your community experienced five deaths due to the Zika virus. There were 123,456 people in your community. Calculate the cause-specific mortality rate?
4.05 per 100,000 population
Identify the appropriate disease reported to a government agency so that regular, frequent, and timely information on individual cases can be used to prevent and control future cases of the disease?
Notifiable disease