You Have Been Asked by a Peer Review Committee to Print

question 561

Multiple Choice

You have been asked by a peer review committee to print a list of the medical record numbers of all patients who had CABGs performed in the past year at your acute care hospital. Which secondary data source could be used to quickly gather this information?

• A) disease index.
• B) physician index.
• C) master patient index.
• D) operation index.

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