HIT Review Quiz 5

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    One way to encourage more productivity in a transcription unit is to

    • Shorten the work day by an hour
    • Vary the work assigned to each transcriptionist
    • Place all transcriptionists on a part-time basis
    • Have the desks of transcriptionists face each other
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  • 2. 

    Depicting a chronological flow of work through graphic representation is done using a

    • Flow chart

    • Work sample

    • Work distribution chart

    • PERT network

    Correct Answer
    A. Flow chart
  • 3. 

    As health information management department director, you wish to submit a capital budget request for five new open shelving units. The department's file area has enough space to hold the units. The  present shelves are not adequate to hold records, and you do not wish to microfilm any closer to the current year. In preparing your request, you first task will be to describe

    • The cost of the new shelves

    • The need for the new shelves

    • The shelving

    • Where the shelving will be placed

    Correct Answer
    A. The need for the new shelves
  • 4. 

    Before designing a new procedure to replace a current, inadequate one, the manager would NOT do which of the following?

    • Make a detailed analysis of the current procedure

    • Become thoroughly familiar with the current procedure

    • Discard the current procedure and write an entirely new one

    • Gather information about problems with the current procedure

    Correct Answer
    A. Discard the current procedure and write an entirely new one
  • 5. 

    The key consideration in planning the physical layout of a health information management department is

    • Productivity of employees

    • Work flow

    • The budget

    • Lighting

    Correct Answer
    A. Work flow
  • 6. 

    The complexity of patients treated in a facility, categorized by type and volume, is the

    • Census

    • Case-mix

    • Blended rate

    • Severity of illness

    Correct Answer
    A. Case-mix
  • 7. 

    Which of the following would not be considered a scientific method of establishing standards?

    • Stopwatch studies

    • Work sampling

    • Personal experience

    • Time-log studies

    Correct Answer
    A. Personal experience
  • 8. 

    One type of plan expressed in numerical terms is called a

    • Quantitive analysis

    • Budget

    • Quantitive procedure

    • Number policy

    Correct Answer
    A. Budget
  • 9. 

    The hospital'l revenue budget is usually prepared by the accounting department. The health information management department's contribution to revenue is usually limited to which of the following departmental functions?

    • Correspondence

    • Abstracting

    • Filing

    • Assembly

    Correct Answer
    A. Correspondence
  • 10. 

    In problem analysis and decision making, asking an employee to note how often he or she answers the telephone each day is an example of which task?

    • Proposing alternative solutions to the problem

    • Gathering relevant data

    • Choosing the best alternative

    • Making the decision

    Correct Answer
    A. Gathering relevant data
  • 11. 

    Budgets usually planned for the 12-month period are kown as the

    • Calendar year

    • Functional year

    • Fiscal year

    • Accounting year

    Correct Answer
    A. Fiscal year
  • 12. 

    A supervisor over the assembly area in a health information management department has determined that one employee can assemble 15 charts per hour, on average. Assuming that an employee can work 1,850 hours per year (after allowing for vacation, holidays, etc.) and that there are 12,500 discharges expected during the next budget year, how many FTEs should the supervisor recommend the department have next year?

    • 0.45

    • 0.21

    • 1.23

    • 0.50

    Correct Answer
    A. 0.45
  • 13. 

    A type of budget that is created as if all activites of the organization or depertment were new is called a

    • Zero-based budget

    • Standard budget

    • Departmental budget

    • Zero-start budget

    Correct Answer
    A. Zero-based budget
  • 14. 

    Given the following members of a health information management department, who would find color coding of health record folders most helpful?

    • Director

    • Filing room supervisor

    • Quality assurance coordinator

    • Coding supervisor

    Correct Answer
    A. Filing room supervisor
  • 15. 

    The outpatient classification system developed by CMS to replace the ASC list is knows as

    • APCs

    • DRGs

    • RUGs

    • RVUs

    Correct Answer
    A. APCs
  • 16. 

    All of the following are considered long-term care facilities EXCEPT

    • Assisted living facility

    • Substance abuse facility

    • Independent living facility

    • Domiciliary facility

    Correct Answer
    A. Substance abuse facility
  • 17. 

    The first step in preparing a departmental budget is

    • Counting the total number of hours the department will be open during the next fiscal period

    • Reviewing the department's objectives for the next fiscal year

    • Reviewing the supplies and equipment already on hand

    • Determining how many hours employees will be on leave during the next fiscal period

    Correct Answer
    A. Reviewing the department's objectives for the next fiscal year
  • 18. 

    One way to initiate or manage change in the workplace is (are) through

    • Job redesign

    • Job enlargement

    • Job enrichment

    • Job descriptions

    Correct Answer
    A. Job redesign
  • 19. 

    A department's organization chart cannot show employees which of the following?

    • The quality of management in the department

    • Possible lines of promotion

    • Their organizational relationship to other employees

    • The limits of their authority and responsibility

    Correct Answer
    A. The quality of management in the department
  • 20. 

    One of the best sources for discovering problems with procedures is the

    • Medical staff

    • Department director

    • Director's immediate supervisor

    • Employees using the procedure

    Correct Answer
    A. Employees using the procedure
  • 21. 

    Departmental objuectives should complement and supplement the

    • Department director's professional goals

    • Personal goals of the director's immediate supervisor

    • Hospital's goals

    • Goals of other departments inthe hospital

    Correct Answer
    A. Hospital's goals
  • 22. 

    Which of the following is false about procedures?

    • Reviewed against actual performance periodically

    • Assigned to only one employee at a time

    • Designed to ensure uniformity of practice

    • They should be specific to a task

    Correct Answer
    A. Assigned to only one employee at a time
  • 23. 

    The use of a good job decription would not be useful information for which of the following?

    • Performance evaluation

    • Personnel selection

    • Preparing job orientation plans

    • Placement of equipment

    Correct Answer
    A. Placement of equipment
  • 24. 

    An organizaiton chart ensures good

    • Organization within the department

    • Management

    • Visualization of the department's structure

    • Line relationship

    Correct Answer
    A. Visualization of the department's structure
  • 25. 

    The crisis manager demonstrates poor ability in which management funtions?

    • Planning

    • Organizing

    • Controlling

    • Actuating

    Correct Answer
    A. Planning
  • 26. 

    Which of the following is not included in a procedure document?

    • Title of the procedure

    • Effective date

    • Qualifications of the person performing the procedure

    • Statement giving the purpose of the task outlined inthe procedure

    Correct Answer
    A. Qualifications of the person performing the procedure
  • 27. 

    CARF accredits

    • Home health care

    • Respite care programs

    • Neighborhood health centers

    • Rehabilitation facilities

    Correct Answer
    A. Rehabilitation facilities
  • 28. 

    Main aisles in an office should be at least

    • 3 feet wide

    • 5 feet wide

    • 7 feet wide

    • 8 feet wide

    Correct Answer
    A. 5 feet wide
  • 29. 

    Certain records are better filed in an area where health information management department personnel other than the director cannot have access to them. Which of the following would not be included?

    • Psychiatric records

    • Records of health information management department personnel

    • Records of famous persons

    • Records involving legal actions against the facility or members of the medical staff

    Correct Answer
    A. Psychiatric records
  • 30. 

    Which provide an explantion regarding the need for a special report?

    • Notes

    • Headings

    • Guidelines

    • Symbols

    Correct Answer
    A. Guidelines
  • 31. 

    In a terminal digital filing system with 100,000 records, the goal is to have a file guide for every 50 records. How many guides should be purchased?

    • 200

    • 5,000

    • 500

    • 2,000

    Correct Answer
    A. 2,000
  • 32. 

    A disadvantage ofinformal organization include which of the following?

    • Communication may be enhanced

    • A safety valve for employee frustrations is developed

    • Social values of the informal organization may work against the formal organization's objectives

    • Employees' personal satisfaction may be increased

    Correct Answer
    A. Social values of the informal organization may work against the formal organization's objectives
  • 33. 

    ICD-9-CM, Volume 1, contains

    • Tabular list of V codes

    • Alphabetical index of V codes

    • Procedure codes

    • Table of drugs and chemicals

    Correct Answer
    A. Tabular list of V codes
  • 34. 

    An organization chart may not be arranged according to

    • Job

    • Function

    • Either job or pay grade

    • Either job or function

    Correct Answer
    A. Either job or pay grade
  • 35. 

    A health information management department director would NOT be expected to predict which of the following when preparing a budget?

    • The number of personnel that will be required

    • Equipment needs

    • The supplies that will be needed

    • Increases in Social Security taxes

    Correct Answer
    A. Increases in Social Security taxes
  • 36. 

    The hospital administrator requests a report on the number of cholecystectomies performed by a particular physician in April of the previous year. Of the following, the place to look for this information might be the

    • Patient register

    • Diagnostic index

    • Operating room register

    • Operation index

    Correct Answer
    A. Operation index
  • 37. 

    File cabinets, desks, computer hardware, and typewriters are examples of

    • Operational budget items

    • Incremental budget items

    • Capital budget items

    • Supplies and expenses budget items

    Correct Answer
    A. Capital budget items
  • 38. 

    Procedure provide for

    • Flexibility in performing a task

    • Guidelines for designing a policy

    • Standardization in performing a task

    • Interpretation while performing a task

    Correct Answer
    A. Standardization in performing a task
  • 39. 

    The concept indicating the limits placed on an individual's ability to decide on actions or to order actions from others is called

    • Delegation

    • Responsibility

    • Authority

    • Management

    Correct Answer
    A. Authority
  • 40. 

    Given the following information, compute the number of open shelving units needed. Each unit is 8 shelves high and 36 inches wide. The current file area houses 22,075 linear filing inches of records. The goal is to expand this by 10%.

    • 78 units

    • 85 units

    • 77 units

    • 84 units

    Correct Answer
    A. 85 units
  • 41. 

    During work sampling of a file clerk's activity, it is noted that out of 300 observations the employee is speaking on the telephone during 76 observations. How much of the employee's time is spent on the phone if the employee works 7 hours a day?

    • 1.77 hours

    • 3.28%

    • 9.2%

    • 3.94%

    Correct Answer
    A. 1.77 hours
  • 42. 

    Which of the following is not included in the MBO cyclic process?

    • Organization

    • Feedback

    • Planning

    • Preformance review

    Correct Answer
    A. Organization
  • 43. 

    One reason for collecting procedures into a procedure manual might be

    • To satisfy state law

    • To aid in cross-training of employees

    • To keep procedures from getting lost

    • To allow easy review by the medical staff

    Correct Answer
    A. To aid in cross-training of employees
  • 44. 

    Employees' desk should be

    • 5 to 6 feet apart

    • 1 to 2 feet apart

    • 0 to 2 feet apart

    • 2.5 to 3 feet apart

    Correct Answer
    A. 2.5 to 3 feet apart
  • 45. 

    The first task in completing the work distribution chart is to

    • Determine the job position of each employee

    • Have each employee complete a list of his or her daily activites

    • Have each supervisor complete a list of the daily activites of his or her subordinates

    • Have the department director complete a list of the daily activites of each employee

    Correct Answer
    A. Have each employee complete a list of his or her daily activites
  • 46. 

    The work distribution chart cannot show which of the following organizational problem?

    • Uneven distribution of benefits

    • Uneven distribution of work

    • Inappropriate specialization

    • Disproportionate use of time

    Correct Answer
    A. Uneven distribution of benefits
  • 47. 

    Which solution given should be the last one used to solve a problem that becomes apparent from variance analysis?

    • Making adjustments in procedures

    • Redistributing workload

    • Hiring more staff

    • Providing more training

    Correct Answer
    A. Hiring more staff
  • 48. 

    A department's operational plan is comprised of apecific, veriable

    • Standards

    • Procedures

    • Objectives

    • Rules

    Correct Answer
    A. Objectives
  • 49. 

    Which type of microfilm has the greatest storage density?

    • Aperture cards

    • Roll film

    • Microfiche

    • Microfilm jackets

    Correct Answer
    A. Roll film

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