Question

Which of the following is an example of information?

A. The number of patients discharged has increased 175% over the past year.

B. The RBC test results is 12.6 with the WBC test result is 11.6.

C. The HIM employees worked 320 hours.

D. The HIM committee will meet to discuss the problem with the delinquent chart count.

Answer 1

A) The number of patients discharged has increased 175% over the past year.

Option A provides comprehensive detail about the data. What I mean by that is apart from informing the readers about the patients being discharged, it also tells about the significant increase in the number of patients(175%) and the time when the increase was observed (i.e last year)

Option B just tells about the value of the test result but it does inform the reader whether the value are high, low or normal.

Option C tells about the number of hours that employees worked but it does not tell about the period whether it is monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or annually.

Again Option D tell about the meeting with the reason but it does not incude the time or place for meeting.