A focused case review should be conducted as part of the outpatient CDI assessment. Which of the following is commonly identified as an outpatient clinical documentation area of opportunity that could be the subject of a focused case review?

When different hospitals within a peer group provide similar services, such as wound debridement, chemotherapy infusion or injections, or laceration repairs, which of the following files containing information about the frequency of use of the corresponding CPT/HCPCS codes for these services can be consulted to compare and determine whether the code frequency in a specific hospital is reasonable for a particular service?

Once the decision is made to move forward with the outpatient CDI program, what is the next step?

The Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Specifications Manual provides instruction on clinical record data sources, abstracting the data, and __________.

The process of evaluating the benefits and barriers of a program, including assessing any political, operational, and resource-related issues, is described by which of the following terms?

A hospitalized patient experiences a generalized tonic-clonic seizure. What is the nurses priority action?

A nurse is performing a neurological assessment on a patient with suspected increased intracranial pressure (ICP). Which finding is most concerning?

A nurse is educating a patient on antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy. Which statement by the patient requires further teaching?

A patient taking haloperidol for schizophrenia develops extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS). Which findings suggest EPS? (Select all that apply.)

Researchers conducted a study by analyzing available county-level census data for central Wisconsin.  They found a negative correlation between county rates of average cranberry consumption with average county rates of heart disease. What kind of study is this?