A process used by The Joint Commission surveyors, defined by TJC as an evaluation method in which surveyors select a patient, resident or client and use that individual’s record as a roadmap to move through an organization to assess and evaluate the organizaion’s compliance with selected standards and the organization’s systems of providing care and services.

In this type of HMO, a physician is employed by the HMO and sees only HMO patients

During a quality improvement project aimed at reducing medication errors, the HIT team decides to map the medication administration process to identify improvement areas. Which quality improvement tool would best support this effort?

At the time of birth, vital signs of the newborn are recorded at intervals of 1 and 5 minutes. These results are known as:

The numbering system that provides for one number for each patient, which is used for every admission, is called

A fishbone diagram shows

This patient is admitted with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 5, he also has benign hypertension.  Two of the following codes should be assigned: N18.3 CKD, Stage 3N18.4 CKD, Stage 4N18.5 CKD, Stage 5 I10 HTN, benign, essential, malignant I12.9 HTN with CKD stage I-IV or unspecified I12.0 HTN with CKD stage V or ESRD   Which of the following code sequences is correct?

A health information professional, as a witness, is qualified to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT

Which of the following would be coded as a poisoning?

The rule that regulates when it is necessary to prove the contents of a document, that the original must be produced, or its absence accounted for is called the