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Post NameMEDICAL RECORD LIBRARIAN GR II
DepartmentINSURANCE MEDICAL SERVICES
Question Paper Code054/2016/OL
Category Code641/2014
Date of Test6 June 2016
Medium of QuestionENGLISH
Exam TypeOnline Examination
Total Questions100
1
The basic sources of hospital statistical information is.
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B. Medical Records
2
In MRD the last step in the work flow pattern is the.
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A. Filing of Medical record according to the established procedure
3
A MRD head is a
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B. Second level manager
4
The medical records are regarded as the property of.
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D. Health care institution
5
Legibility of record means
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D. Easy to read
6
The hospital can submit the original record only to the
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C. The court in case of subpoena
7
Regular review of statistics are important to
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Question Cancelled
8
The census is always taken in a hospital at...........of each day
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A. The same time
9
Inpatient service day is also known as
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B. Patient day
10
Completeness of Medical record means
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B. All the information about the patient and the authentication of concerned is there
11
Entries that have been erased should be ................... For legal value of record.
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B. Initialed or signed by the concerned personnel
12
MRO can release informations upon.
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A. Legitimate requests
13
Personal data in the medical record is owned by.
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D. Patient
14
Criminal cases are the following except
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D. Artificial insemination
15
A document that requires a person to appear at the designated place at the designated time is termed.
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A. Subpoena
16
The party who commences a lawsuit is the.
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D. Plaintiff
17
The patient whose life is threatened and who is comatose is assumed to give what kind of consent for life sustaining treatment.
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D. Implied
18
All of the following might be a problem associated with an authorisation to release information except.
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B. Authorisation signed retrospectively
19
A unit of measure denoting the service received by one inpatient in one 24 hour period is called
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B. An inpatient service day
20
The daily analysis of hospital service is based on.
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C. Discharge
21
An active medical record is.
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B. A medical record that is still being used for patient care
22
A card which replaces the MR in the file when the record is removed for use elsewhere in the hospital is.
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C. Tracer card
23
Charting of care in the patient's record is the responsibility of.
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B. Charge nurse
24
An addendum is ..............
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C. Type of late entry to provide additional information in conjunction with a previous entry
25
Gossiping between the doctors about the patient is ...............
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C. Breach of confidentiality
26
Oral orders and orders over the telephone to nurses should be entered in the physician's orders and countersigned by ................... within .......... hours
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A. Physician, 24 hrs
27
Special consent is not for.
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D. Diagnostic investigation and treatment
28
When two or more persons agree upon the same thing in the same sense, they are said to ....
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A. Consent
29
LAMA is
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A. Left Against Medical Advice
30
Biopsy is
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C. Examination of living tissue
31
Preoperative checklist form is filled by
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D. Nurse
32
Responsibility for designing medical record forms is delegated to the hospital.
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C. Forms committee
33
Electronic health records are
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C. Digitally stored healthcare information
34
Demographic information includes
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B. Genetics, age, sex etc
35
Hump - back is
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C. Angular kyphosis
36
Ex - votos means
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C. Model of the diseased area or structure
37
Who discovered the circulation of blood
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Question Cancelled
38
Chemotherapy means
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C. Treatment of disease by means of drugs
39
In middle digit filling system the primary number in 446589 is
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B. 65
40
In the middle digit filing system the record 874406 is filed before
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C. 874407
41
Unit numbering system provides.
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A. Single record
42
In which numbering system the removal of inactive records is not easy
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C. Unit
43
In unit - serial numbering system, when older records are brought forward ................ must be left in the filing area where the old chart has been pulled
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B. Out guide
44
One of the most important tool in the MRD
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A. Master-patient index
45
................ plays an important role in good team work
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A. Motivation
46
A note of pertinent findings should be recorded on the patient's record within ....... hours prior to the operation
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C. 24 hrs
47
Quality assurance includes all of the following except
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D. Billing process review
48
Medical care evaluation focuses on.
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C. The quality of care provided in an institution
49
Policies help in
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A. Making decisions
50
A ............. is a plan in numerical terms
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D. Budget
51
The right of a supervisor to issue commands is
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B. Authority
52
Daily task list is ..............
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D. Simple record of time spent on various major activities throughout the working days
53
Daily task is not a
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A. Personal check on his productivity
54
Which management function measures and correct work performance
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C. Controlling
55
Evaluating the quality and validity of information recorded is the responsibility of
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A. Medical officer
56
Bed day is
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B. A unit of measure denoting the presence of an inpatient bed set up and staffed for use in one 24 hrs period
57
The daily inpatient census is the number of inpatients present at the census taking time each day, plus
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C. Any inpatients who were both admitted and discharged after the census taking time the previous day
58
The fetal death is indicated by
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A. The fact that after complete expulsion from the mother the foetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life
59
A unit of measure denoting the services received by an inpatient during one 24 hr period is ....
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C. Occupied bed day
60
The disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death or the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury
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D. Underlying cause of death
61
In the month of May, there were 21 deaths. Total of 650 patients were discharged (including deaths). Then the hospital death rate for May was.
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C. 3.23%
62
If the patient is not in a position to give written consent to release information from his/her record, then who will do the same
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A. Patient's legal guardian
63
A patient can give a written consent only if he/she is ................
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B. Over the age of 14
64
If a patient has a primary diagnosis of alcoholism, which of the following information items may be released without his consent
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D. No information including the fact that he has treated at the facility
65
The right to authorise release of information from the medical records of a deceased person rests with the
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B. Administrator of the estate
66
A written patient authorisation should contain all of the following except
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A. Signature of the person requesting the information
67
Medical record information might be considered to fall into all the following categories except
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C. Financial information
68
Upon receipt of a subpoena duces tecum, which of the following should be removed from the medical record
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A. Correspondence
69
In determining the length of stay, a 24 hr leave of absence is
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B. Never counted
70
The index cards are arranged.
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B. Alphabetically
71
The greatest resource a medical record department director has is.
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Question Cancelled
72
The major elements in maintaining quality assurance programme are
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A. Gathering of data, assessment and analysis of data, continuing the monitoring process
73
Utilisation review was conducted by
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A. Hospital admissions committee
74
Four major management functions are
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B. Planning, organising, controlling and actuating
75
............. shows past expenditure of each department
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D. Work sheet
76
Which is not a special register
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D. Admission register
77
In management departmentalisation and coordinate is coming under
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B. Organising
78
Inhalation therapy is under the professional supervision of
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B. Anaesthesiology department
79
............. of work performance are used to control the work performed in departments
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C. Standards
80
Assembling of medical record
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D. The forms in the medical record are arranged in the order determined by the hospital
81
Efficient organisation and management of the medical record department are import factors in the .................. of health care facilities
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C. Accreditation
82
Health information or patient care information, commonly known as
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A. Medical records
83
Accessibility of record means
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A. Easy retrieval of the health care information when and where it is required
84
Length of stay is
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B. The number of days of care rendered to an inpatient from admission to discharge
85
In May there were 4,280 inpatient service days ( excluding newborn babies) recorded. Then the average daily census is
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A. 138.1
86
Recorded information in Medical Record is
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A. Privileged communication
87
The physician - patient privilege belongs to
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A. Patient
88
When preparing a medical record in response to a subpoena duces tecum, all of the following should be done except
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D. The attending physician should be notified
89
Refusing to honour a subpoena can result in
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A. Being considered as contempt of court
90
What is the customary method of classifying a fetal death
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A. Number of weeks of gestation or weight of the foetus
91
One of the major problems in comparing statistics reported by different hospitals is
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B. Differences in definitions of various terms used in compiling statistics
92
The hospital inpatient census is defined as the number of inpatients
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D. Occupying beds in the hospital at any one time
93
The IP census does not include which one of the following
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D. The number of patients in the emergency room that day
94
If a patient is brought to the hospital by an ambulance, data collection starts with
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C. Ambulance service
95
The language used in writing medical record is
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D. Factual
96
When an error is made in a health record entry, proper error correction procedures include all of the following except
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D. Use whiteout
97
Hippocrates was the first to separate medicine from
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C. Philosophy
98
At the time of admission the treating doctor should document
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D. Provisional diagnosis
99
Rational explanation for the causes of disease means
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C. Reasoned explanation
100
The key of medical record is
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B. Master patient index

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