Vocabulary Quiz One

What does "HPI" stand for?

• Helping Patients Improve

• History of Present Illness

• Healthy People Inside

• Happy Providers Included

What is is the acronym for a blood clot in the extremities (not the entire term)?

What is the medical term for a heart attack (remember spelling counts)?

What is "The use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualised within the human body. (i.e. x-rays, MRIs, CTs, etc.)?"

• Pathology

• Procedures

• HPI

• Radiology

An appendectomy is the surgical removal of the gallbladder?

• True

• False

What is the medical term for a stroke (remember spelling counts)?

What are "modifying factors?"

• Symptoms that are directly related to the chief complaint.

• Th circumstances surrounding the onset of the chief complaint (i.e. pain began while mowing lawn, vomiting began after eating an old burrito)

• Anything that makes the chief complaint better or worse (i.e. pain is worse with walking)

• The frequency of the chief complaint (i.e. constant, intermittent, waxing and waning)

What are "associated symptoms?"

• Symptoms that are directly related to the chief complaint.

• Anything that makes the chief complaint better or worse (i.e. pain is worse with walking)

• The description of the chief complaint (i.e. sharp, burning, shooting, stabbing)

• Where you would document the patient's personal medical, surgical, family, and social history (previous conditions, etc.)

What does CABG stand for?

• Cerebral Arterial Blood Gas

• Costal Angle Bilateral Gastrostomy

• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

• Coronary Arterial Blood Gas

Dorsal is the front of the body (true or false)?

• True

• False

What is the "Context" element for the HPI?

• The doctor's interview of the patient

• The onset of the patient's symptoms

• The patient's personal medical history

• The circumstances surrounding the onset of the chief complaint.

Which of the options below includes all of the correct billing elements for the HPI?

• Location, Severity, Timing, Quality, Duration, Context, Associated Symptoms, Modifying Factors

• Social History, Family History, Medical History, Chief Complaint, Modifying Factors, Location, Duration, Onset

• Chief Complaint, Location, Duration, Onset, Timing, Quality, Severity

• HPI, PMFSHx, ROS, PE, MDM, ED Course