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A 16-year-old male was treated at your facility for a closed head injury. The patient’s 18-year-old wife accompanied him to the hospital and signed the consent for admission and treatment because of the patient’s incapacity at the time. The patient has requested that copies of his medical records be sent to his attorney. Who should sign the authorization to release the records?

In the past, Joint Commission standards have focused on promoting the use of a facility approved abbreviation list to be used by hospital care providers. With the advent of the Commission’s national patient safety goals, the focus has shifted to the 

The patient had a thrombectomy, without catheter, of the peroneal artery, by leg incision.

Four HIT students are working on a LOS project at their clinical site. To describe the variability of the data, Smithson suggests using range because it is the most exact. Donaldson wants to use the mean because it is easy to calculate. Franklin recommends variance because it is the most popular measure of variability. Howell proposes the use of standard deviation because it is the most preferred and has better interpretive uses. Who made the best suggestion?

As your meeting with the clerical staff on the stat report continues, one clerk suggests a possible reason for the delays is a lack of training concerning the nature of stat reports. On the cause and effect diagram, this would most appropriately be listed under

Which of the following data sets would be most helpful in developing a home health data registry?  

The formula used to calculate the percentage of ambulatory care visits made with same day appointments is

The compliance officer was made aware that a use accessed the PHI of a patient with the same last name through a computer alert.  This is an example of a(n): 

The MS-DRG weight in a particular case is 2.0671 and the hospital’s payment rate is $3,027. How much would the hospital receive as reimbursement in this case?

If you want to begin with the type of material that has the highest error rate, you will start by working on problems with