You Have a Patient Processing Data Flow Diagram for a Hospital

question 11

Multiple Choice

You have a Patient Processing data flow diagram for a hospital system.Data that is retrieved from a Patient data store includes: patient name,phone number,health insurance,HIPAA identifier,and more.In creating the level 1 diagram where you retrieve data from that data store you:

• A) Must explicitly list each data item coming from the data store
• B) May give the data flow as 'Patient Details' instead of listing all data items
• C) May aggregate as many as four data items together (so if twelve data items are being moved, you need to show three data flows)
• D) List only the items normally used in the process (with data that might not be used unless there is some rare processing situation not listed)
• E) Either (a)or (c)above

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A band of values, extrapolated from sample statistics, presumed to surround the value of an unknown parameter within the population.

Independent Samples

Samples that are collected from distinct, non-overlapping populations, ensuring that measurements from one sample do not influence the measurements from the other.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information on which a statistical estimate is based, minus the number of parameters estimated.

T Procedure

A statistical method used to infer the mean of a small sample size when the population variance is unknown.