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Electronic Medical Records Specialist 7. Which are important differences between inpatient services days and total length of stay? A. The differences in accuracy for each of the two calculations B. Which patients are included, and how serious their illness is C. How the days are calculated, and what the calculations are used for D. Inpatient services days are actual calculations; total length of stay is often an estimated value 8. Which statement is false? A. A facility’s ALOS is based on the median instead of the mean. B. The ALOS will never be distorted if the numbers are calculated correctly. C. A facility might include notes in the ALOS report to explain extreme values. D. A facility might calculate ALOS values with and without the extreme values. 9. When calculating this, leave of absence days are important. A. ALOS and discharge days B. Newborn inpatient service days C. Emergency department statistics D. Statistics for patients who were readmitted to the hospital 10. Mrs. Anderson was admitted to the hospital November 3 for hip-replacement surgery. She was recovering in the rehabilitation unit, where she expected to remain for two weeks. On November 4, she received word her sister died and that the funeral was to be November 9 in a town several hours away. Because Mrs. Anderson was doing well and was able to arrange for a personal nurse to assist her, the hospital approved a leave of absence for her from 10 a.m. November 8 through 2 p.m. November 11. She was then discharged from the facility November 20. What is Mrs. Anderson’s inpatient service days and her length of stay? A. Inpatient service days = 15 days; LOS = 17 days B. Inpatient service days = 14 days; LOS = 14 days C. Inpatient service days = 17 days; LOS = 15 days D. Inpatient service days = 15 days; LOS = 18 days
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