A medical assistant who completes all work and documents all of the day's activities before leaving for the day is demonstrating ____.

A) knowledge
B) self-confidence
C) growth
D) critical thinking
E) professionalism

A measure of body fat based on height and weight that is often used in assessing nutritional levels is the ____.

A) skinfold test
B) specific gravity test
C) calorie
D) body mass index
E) muscle mass test

In an inpatient setting, if a patient had a condition when he or she was admitted to the hospital, which POA indicator will the coder assign?

A) U
B) W
C) N
D) Y

​Increase of blood sugar,as in diabetes

A) ​hyperglycemia
B) ​hypoglycemia
C) ​ingested
D) ​insulin shock
E) ​intubation
F) ​life-threatening
G) ​obstructed
H) ​poison
I) ​postmortem
J) ​prophylactic

A condition in which an egg is unable to move out of a woman's fallopian tube into the uterus for implantation is a(n) ____.

A) fibroid
B) ovarian cyst
C) ectopic pregnancy
D) polyp
E) sexual function disorder

​A system of measurements that uses the base function of ten

A) ​decimal
B) ​dividend
C) ​divisor
D) ​fraction
E) ​improper fraction
F) ​metric system
G) ​mixed fraction
H) ​percentage
I) ​product

Even if patients understand the patient education materials, they have the right to ________ treatment and information.

When coding,you isolate the main term from the provider's statement and then look it up in the:

A) table of contents
B) index
C) subterm directory
D) explanation of abbreviations

Which of the following types of fractures identifies the breaking of the bone into several pieces?

A) Avulsion
B) Burst
C) Comminuted
D) Depressed

Nominal scale

A) This scale has a meaningful zero point and equal intervals; therefore, it can be manipulated by all mathematical principles.
B) In this scale, numbers are arbitrarily assigned to represent different categories or variables.
C) This scale establishes equal distances between measurements but has no absolute zero reference point.
D) With this scale, magnitude or rank order is implied; however, the distance between measurements is unknown.