Exam 5: Clinical Facility Data

-Refer to above figure :Calculate the surgical autopsy rate:

In 1 week, there were 19 consultations and 47 discharges. What was the consultation rate?

At Happy Valley Hospital, 592 patients developed one or more health care-associated infections. The most common type was pneumonia, accounting for 24.15%. How many pneumonia infections were there?

-Refer to above figure :Calculate the cancer autopsy rate:

Last year, your facility had 149 total deaths. 21 of the 149 total deaths occurred less than 48 hours after admission, and there were 6,471 total discharges. Calculate the gross mortality rate.

The postoperative death rate has a provision that limits deaths to within how many days of the surgery?

-Refer to above figure :Calculate the pediatric autopsy rate:

What is the most common type of hospital infection?

If approximately six elderly residents die each week at Fair Haven Nursing Facility, what will be the mortality rate at the end of week 2? (Assume that Fair Haven begins with 120 residents and does not replace resident's rooms with new patients during this time.)

Out of 81 knee surgeries and 51 rotator cuff surgeries performed this year, 12 patients experienced complications. What is the complication rate?

Which of the following professionals does not perform autopsies in the United States?

Calculate the infection rate compared to days on a ventilator if seven patients acquired ventilator-associated pneumonia and had 31 ventilator days during October.

If 26 patients were seen by a consultant, and 40 patients were discharged (six of these patients died), what was the consultation rate?

Because maternal mortalities are so rare, which size constant is oftentimes used to express meaningful results?

In the month of September, there were 11 deaths reported that were within 10 days of surgery with 96 surgical patients. What was the postop death rate?

-Refer to above figure :Saint Mar's Hospital evaluated their after-surgery complication data for the previous 6 months. Of the 88 patients who had surgery, the following complications were found. What is the complication rate for sponges or surgical tools left in the cavity?

Which of the following is not an example of a hospital-acquired condition?

Which of the following is not a category for health care-associated infections (HAIs)?

A complication is any adverse event that happens to a patient after admission to the hospital which causes an increase in the length of stay by at least 1 day, in what percent of the patients?

Your health care facility wants to measure the number of health care-associated infections present during a month of discharged patients (gross retrospective infection rate). There were 12 infections during the month of October and a total of 131 discharges during October.