Which of the following statements does not apply to ICD-9-CM?
It can be used as the basis for epidemiological research.
It can be used in the evaluation of medical care planning for healthcare delivery systems.
It can be used to facilitate data storage and retrieval
It can be used to collect data about nursing care
Computer software programs that assist in the assignment of codes used with diagnostic and procedural classifications are called:
Natural language processing systems
Monitoring/audit programs
Encoders
Concept, description, and relationship tables
Which of the following is not a knowledge source for users of the Unified Medical Language System?
Concept table
Semantic network
Metathesaurus
Specialist lexicon
Nosology can be defined as the branch of medical science that deals with
Cosmetic surgery
Hospital-acquired infections
Nursing diagnoses
Classfication systems
Which organization originally published ICD-9?
American Medical Association
Centers for Disease Control
United States federal government
World Health Organization
Which of the following terms refers to the incidence of disease?
Classification
Morbidity
Mortality
Vocabulary
Which of the following terms refers to the incidence of death?
Vital statistics
Which of the following is not one of the purposes of ICD-9-CM??
Classification of morbidity for statistical purposes
Classification of mortality for statistical purposes
Reporting of diagnoses by physicians
Identification of the supplies, products, and services provided to patients
Which of the following organizations is responsible for updating the diagnosis classification of ICD-9-CM?
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
National Centers for Health Statistics
Which of the following organizations is responsible for updating the procedure classification of ICD-9-CM?
Centers of Disease Control
Which volume of ICD-9-CM contains the numerical listing of codes that represent diseases and injuries?
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Which volume od ICD-9-CM contains the alphabetic index for the diagnostic codes?
At which level of the classification system are the most specific ICD-9-CM codes found?
Category level
Section level
Subcategory level
Subclassification level
What are five-digit ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes referred to as?
Category codes
Section codes
Subcategory codes
Subclassification codes
What are four-digit ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes referred to as?
Which of the following ICD-9-CM codes are always alphanumeric?
Procedure codes
V Codes
Which of the following ICD-9-CM codes classify environment events and circumstances as the cause of an injury, poisoning, or other adverse effect?
Catgory codes
E codes
V codes
Which volume of ICD-9-CM contains the tabular and alphaneumeric list of procedures?
Which of the following classifications is used exclusively for classifying cases of malignant diseas?
CPT
HCPCS
ICD-9-CM
ICD-O-3
Which of the following is used to report the healthcare supplies, products, and sevices provided to patients by healthcare professionals?
SNOMED CT
Which of the following provides the most comprehensive controlled vocabulary for coding the contents of a patient record?
Which of the following is a standard terminology used to code medical procedures and services?
Which of the following provides a set of codes used for collecting data about substance abuse and mental health disorders?
DSM-IV-TR
