Exam 9: Scrubbing and Mapping Data

One of the admissions administrators is using a coded set for gender that is M (male), F (female), and U (unknown). What type of data constraint is this?

If a medical coder changes all short forms of words like Jr or Sr, or St or Rd, to their full length, then this is called data ______.

Last week, John Luke worked on resolving duplicates that appeared in the database when he added three new cardiologists to the physician practice. What activity was he engaged in?

If data are the same across different databases, then the data is _____.

The medical record number of a surgical patient appears in the patient's lab and imaging reports. This is an example of what type of data constraint?

_________ refer to the rules that are used in the mapping process.

The data set that the information is mapped to is called the ________.

While looking through the data, you noticed that John Carmichael was a patient with the same birth date as J.D. Carmichael or J. Daniel Carmichael. Checking to be sure that this patient was the same is an example of checking for data _______.

Mapping is not useful when there is a software change that uses different names or formats for patient information.

What are used to translate ICD-9-CM codes to ICD-10-CM/PCS codes and vice versa?

While looking through the data, you noticed that a field requires a leading 0 such as 01, but data has been entered as 1. What type of constraint is this called?

Checking data to see if they can actually be correct is checking for data __________?

A list of details that describe each field in a database is called:

A constraint that occurs only once per patient, such as a social security number, is called what?

Data mapping is entered in and then no longer updated.

Ruth Johnson, DOB 6/15/56, appeared to be the same as Ruth C. Johnson, DOB 6/15/56, and Ruth Catherine Johnson, DOB 6/15/56. Checking to be sure that this patient was the same is an example of checking for data _______.

On a medical history form, some patients did not answer the question regarding alcohol use. This is an issue of data ________.

Whether or not data is alpha or numeric would be an example of data-type _________.

A constraint that requires a field to be filled in is called what?

A ____________ is a database that has a "list of patients who have received care at the health care facility and their encounter information, (it) is often used to correlate the patient with the file identification."