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Health Information Management Final
Health Information Management
18
Health Care
Undergraduate 2
12/10/2013

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Which Persian phsyician produced the Canon of Medicine?
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Avicenna
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Which surgeon and surgical writer was educated by the army....
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Pare
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To advance the health of individuals and communities, hospitals and health care networks are represented by the...
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AHA
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Which medical staff committee is responsible for the review of preoperative and pathologic diagnosis to determine the necessity of surgery?
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tissue review
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Which medical staff membership category includes physicians who deliver most of the hospital's inpatient medical services?
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Active
Term
The first physician to document accurate descriptions of measles and smallpox was
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Rhazes
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The anatomist who revolutionized anatomy by writing De Humani Corporis Fabrica was....
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Andreas Vesalius
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A patient's entry to the health care system in most nonemergency situations, which include health maintenance and coordination of referrals, is called _______ care.
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Primary
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Which organization was founded to improve the quality of care for surgical patients by establishing standards for surgical education and practice?
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American College of Surgeons
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The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) was established by the...
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Health Care Quality Improvement Act
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Funding for health care for the homeless was provided by the ________ Act.
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McKinney
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Medical staff members are granted clinical privileges by the.....
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governing board
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Which acts of reports and recommendations from medical staff committees?
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executive committee
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Which hospital dept. directs the facility-wide program that monitors standards of conduct, implements sanctions for noncompliance, and maintains a confidential integrity hot line?
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compliance
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Which coding system is used in the US to collect information about diseases and injuries and to classify diagnoses and procedures?
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ICD-9-CM
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Which identifier measures an individual's unique physical characteristics or behavior and compares it to a stored digital template to authenticate the indentity of the individual?
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biometrics
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Since 1951, the organization that has developed professionally-based standards to evaluate the complance of health care organizations is the...
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JCAHO
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Which committee ensures patient safety by analyzing trends of incidents and establishing priorities for dealing with high-risk areas?
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risk management
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