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What are the items, observations, or raw facts used to describe a question under study?


A) Statistics
B) Independent variable
C) Dependent variable
D) Data

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What is the manual collection of data from medical charts or the digital collection of data from electronic health records called?


A) Data analytics
B) Abstracting
C) Procedure index
D) Interpretation

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What data type has a logical order or ranking, meaningful, consistent intervals, and includes a zero in its order?


A) Interval level data
B) Ratio level data
C) Continuous data
D) Qualitative data

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Which of the following is NOT an example of data items in health care?


A) Initial time point
B) Patient age
C) Gender
D) Marital status

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Which of the following is NOT an example of secondary data collection?


A) An HIM professional abstracts data from patient records into a database.
B) A nurse records a patient's blood pressure during an office visit.
C) A hospital administrator generates a report of the number of tonsillectomies performed last year.
D) A researcher examines reports of gunshot wounds from trauma centers.

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A list of procedures performed over a certain period of time is called what?


A) Physician index
B) Abstracting
C) Procedure index
D) ICD-10

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A pain scale ranging from least to most painful would be considered what type of data?


A) Quantitative data
B) Ordinal level data
C) Discrete data
D) Nominal level data

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What process involves an initial question or problem that needs to be answered, and the calculations performed to address the question?


A) Interpretation
B) Abstracting
C) Procedure index
D) Analysis

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The amount of $42.81 is an example of what type of data?


A) Qualitative data
B) Interval level data
C) Continuous data
D) Nominal data

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Which of the following is a display of category percentages?


A) Pie chart
B) Histogram
C) Line graph
D) Table

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A patient's personal identifier, gender, race, and ethnicity are all examples of what type of data?


A) Quantitative data
B) Ordinal level data
C) Discrete data
D) Nominal level data

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A temperature scale (if it is 0° C outside, it doesn't mean that there is no temperature at all) is an example of what type of data?


A) Interval level data
B) Ratio level data
C) Continuous data
D) Qualitative data

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What type of data is represented by whole numbers for categories?


A) Quantitative data
B) Continuous data
C) Discrete data
D) Business intelligence data

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Descriptive statistics studies data on a broad, ___________ level.


A) sample
B) population
C) community
D) individual

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A ____________ is a subset of the population that has been selected using a particular sampling method.


A) sample
B) population
C) community
D) individual

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The data set collected for hospital inpatients is:


A) MDS.
B) UHDDS.
C) UACDS.
D) OASIS.

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What is the scientific application of mathematical principles to the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of numerical data?


A) Statistics
B) Health care
C) Data analytics
D) Abstracting

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Which of the following is a dependent variable?


A) Weeks of gestation
B) Country of birth
C) Number of hours in labor
D) Mortality rate

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Which of the following is a display of data in rows and columns?


A) Pie chart
B) Histogram
C) Line graph
D) Table

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What is the discipline of collecting, describing, interpreting, and presenting data?


A) Categorical statistics
B) Ordinal statistics
C) Inferential statistics
D) Descriptive statistics

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