Question 1

Which is the most authoritative source about a medication?

Accepted Answer

A)  A focus group of users 
B)  A website blog with testimonials from users and physicians 
C)  The manufacturer's web site 
D)  A double-blind placebo study conducted by a university

Question 2

What rate is used to indicate the percentage of the hospital's beds occupied by inpatients for a given time period?

Accepted Answer

A)  percent occupancy 
B)  total length of stay 
C)  case mix 
D)  average length of stay

Question 3

The ______________________ is a committee that is charged with ensuring that research conducted within the facility or by its employees and associates conforms to all applicable rules and regulations.

Accepted Answer

A)  Joint Commission (TJ
C)  
B)  Institutional Review Board (IR
B)  
C)  board of directors 
D)  forms committee

Question 4

You have been asked to query your staff to determine their satisfaction with a number of variables, such as break scheduling and collaboration between teams. What type of research design should you use?

Accepted Answer

A)  Survey 
B)  Mixed Method 
C)  Experimental 
D)  Meta analysis

Question 5

Which statement refers to key performance indicators?

Accepted Answer

A)  they are generated daily 
B)  physicians use them to develop care plans 
C)  they are exclusively used in revenue cycle management (RCM) aspects of health care 
D)  they are used primarily in inpatient settings

Question 6

The Likert scale, a depiction of categories on a line, consists of what type of data?

Accepted Answer

A)  ratio data 
B)  ordinal data 
C)  interval data 
D)  categorical data

Question 7

A ________ table summarizes parts of a larger table.

Accepted Answer

The answer of A ________ table summarizes parts of a...

Question 8

What information is found in the trauma registry that cannot be collected by the UHDDS?

Accepted Answer

A)  cause of injury 
B)  site of injury on body 
C)  patient demographics 
D)  effectiveness of treatments

Question 9

Use the data below to calculate the length of stay for each patient. Assume that the dates are in the same year and that it is not a leap year. 
  
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The length of stay for Patient A is _______________ day(s).

Accepted Answer

The answer of Use the data below to calculate the...

Question 10

What type of research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods?

Accepted Answer

A)  clinical outcome analysis 
B)  applied research 
C)  basic research 
D)  mixed method research

Question 11

Use the data below to calculate the length of stay for each patient. Assume that the dates are in the same year and that it is not a leap year
  
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The length of stay for Patient G is _______________ day(s).

Accepted Answer

The answer of Use the data below to calculate the...

Question 12

Which data presentation tool best displays the frequency of observations?

Accepted Answer

A)  pie chart 
B)  histogram 
C)  line graph 
D)  table

Question 13

What type of research collects numerical data?

Accepted Answer

A)  quantitative research 
B)  applied research 
C)  basic research 
D)  qualitative research

Question 14

The ________ graph is an illustration of the frequency of items in categories.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The ________ graph is an illustration of...

Question 15

Which process populates the patient database used to generate indices like the physician index, the diagnosis index, and the procedure index?

Accepted Answer

A)  abstracting 
B)  assembly 
C)  retention 
D)  coding

Question 16

Review the following graph. What is the incidence of varicella (chickenpox) trend from 1990 to 2014 in these four states?
Varicella incidence per 100,000 population in states that have reported varicella cases to CDC annually since before implementation of the varicella vaccination program - Illinois, Michigan, Texas, and West Virginia, 1990-2014.
  Source: Lopez AS, Zhang J, Marin M. Epidemiology of Varicella During the 2-Dose Varicella Vaccination Program - United States, 2005-2014. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2016; 65:902-905. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6534a4.

Accepted Answer

A)  downward 
B)  upward 
C)  flat 
D)  mixed

Question 17

Use the data below to calculate the length of stay for each patient. Assume that the dates are in the same year and that it is not a leap year. 
  
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The length of stay for Patient C is _______________ day(s).

Accepted Answer

The answer of Use the data below to calculate the...

Question 18

The blood pressure of patients discharged in June 2019 with a diagnosis of hypertension was reviewed. The 36 samples are below. The diastolic pressures (in mm Hg) were as follows:
88 98 78 84 77 81 90 82 75 72 100 92
85 92 84 77 82 92 87 74 80 95 77 90
87 77 80 83 86 80 88 90 79 82 93 88
What is the mode?

Accepted Answer

A)  77 
B)  82 
C)  84 
D)  85

Question 19

______________ is how many new cases of a particular disease or condition have been identified in a particular period in comparison with the population as a whole.

Accepted Answer

A)  Prevalence 
B)  Incidence 
C)  Mortality 
D)  Morbidity

Question 20

Use the data below to calculate the length of stay for each patient. Assume that the dates are in the same year and that it is not a leap year. 
  
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The length of stay for Patient F is _______________ day(s).

Accepted Answer

The answer of Use the data below to calculate the...

Exam 7: Statistics and Data Analytics

Which is the most authoritative source about a medication?

What rate is used to indicate the percentage of the hospital's beds occupied by inpatients for a given time period?

The ______________________ is a committee that is charged with ensuring that research conducted within the facility or by its employees and associates conforms to all applicable rules and regulations.

You have been asked to query your staff to determine their satisfaction with a number of variables, such as break scheduling and collaboration between teams. What type of research design should you use?

Which statement refers to key performance indicators?

The Likert scale, a depiction of categories on a line, consists of what type of data?

A ________ table summarizes parts of a larger table.

What information is found in the trauma registry that cannot be collected by the UHDDS?

Use the data below to calculate the length of stay for each patient. Assume that the dates are in the same year and that it is not a leap year. - The length of stay for Patient A is _______________ day(s).

What type of research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods?

Use the data below to calculate the length of stay for each patient. Assume that the dates are in the same year and that it is not a leap year - The length of stay for Patient G is _______________ day(s).

Which data presentation tool best displays the frequency of observations?

What type of research collects numerical data?

The ________ graph is an illustration of the frequency of items in categories.

Which process populates the patient database used to generate indices like the physician index, the diagnosis index, and the procedure index?

Use the data below to calculate the length of stay for each patient. Assume that the dates are in the same year and that it is not a leap year. - The length of stay for Patient C is _______________ day(s).

______________ is how many new cases of a particular disease or condition have been identified in a particular period in comparison with the population as a whole.

Use the data below to calculate the length of stay for each patient. Assume that the dates are in the same year and that it is not a leap year. - The length of stay for Patient F is _______________ day(s).