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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

The difference between an Institutional Review Board (IRB) and a hospital’s Ethics Committee is that

Two coders have found the same abbreviation (CO) in two records.  One abbreviation means carbon monoxide in a patient with respiratory complaints.  The other means cardiac output in a heart patient’s record.  This indicates a problem with which data quality characteristic in these records?  

You are providing an educational session to new hires at your hospital. You tell the new employees that hospital records may be used as evidence in court even though hearsay laws bar the use of most evidence that does not represent personal knowledge of the witness. That is because the hospital record