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1. Choose the most correct statement. A. Medical transcription is easy because it requires simple typing skills. B. Medical transcriptionists work when they like, staying home to type for doctors while dropping loads of laundry in the dryer . C. Medical transcriptionists must convey what the dictator meant, not necessarily what the dictator said. D. Home-based medical transcriptionists can save money on childcare costs because they can care for their children while they work. 2. As a professional healthcare documentation specialist, you happen to overhear another healthcare worker telling a colleague, “The healthcare documentation department is where the girls type up the doctors’ notes.” You understand that this inaccurately describes your work because: A. Doctors all mumble and talk too fast. B. Doctors with foreign accents are difficult to understand. C. Typing fast is hard work. D. Transcription requires analysis and interpretation of dictated audio, recording it in a complex series of deletions, additions, and adaptations. 3. Which of the following is NOT one of the three levels of editorial activity performed by transcriptionists, according to Dr. Dirckx? A. Attitudinal, where the dictator’s opinion about the patient is edited to fit the diagnosis. B. Conceptual, where the transcriptionist monitors word choice, grammar, and style. C. Phonetic, where the sounds of speech are recognized and recorded in written form. D. Formal, where things such as punctuation and appropriate units of measure are added. 4. Which of the following word pairs is NOT an example of homonyms? A. Bark, the sound a dog makes; bark, the outer cortical layer of a tree trunk B. Affect, to influence; effect, an outcome or result. C. Grave, a hole in the ground in which a dead body is placed; grave, serious or alarming D. Trip, to stumble or fall; trip, a journey or excursion 5. You have recently been hired as lead healthcare documentation quality analyst and your duties include giving feedback to new hires on their work. In proofreading a new HDS’s output, you notice a recurring problem with discrimination of medical homographs. You explain to the HDS that this means: A. Syllables that are stressed differently, caused by regional accents or British-American pronunciation variants B. Words that are spelled and pronounced the same but have different meanings C. Soundalikes; words that sound similar but have different meanings and spellings D. A speech pattern characterized by a rapid rate of word utterance. 6. Which of the following is true about homophones? A. They are by definition words that sound the same but have different pronunciations and meanings, such as perineal and peroneal B. They can be caused by regional and ethnic dialects producing pronunciation variables C. They can cause dilemmas for the HDS in deciding which word was intended when both could make sense, such as finely or finally D. All of these examples are true of homophones 7. Which of the following is an example of INAPPROPRIATE editing of dictation by a healthcare documentation specialist? A. Expansion of contractions, so that a dictated phrase such as “she can’t stand up” would be transcribed as “she cannot stand up.” B. Insertion of punctuation such as commas, periods, semicolons, hyphens, and other marks. C. Changing the dictated “sixth tenths of a milliliter” to “0.6 mL” to ensure that units of measure conform with standards organization recommendations. D. Omitting words that cannot be clearly discerned, simply leaving them out of the report. 8. As an experienced healthcare documentation specialist, you are helping to train a new graduate on the job. Your trainee tells you that he likes to use word books because they are fast and it is easy to find terms in them. You remind him that: A. The Internet is cheaper and faster and more accurate. B. There is no reason to invest in reference books because the doctors spell all the words correctly for the transcriptionists. C. It is important to always cross-check in a dictionary any term found in a word book, so that you can ensure the definition fits the context. D. Medical dictionaries are excellent places to find both abbreviations and specialty terms. 9. Which of the following is a benefit of electronic spelling checker software? A. Helps you avoid misspelling technical and nontechnical words. B. Distinguishes among homophones like discreet and discrete, ensuring the correct word is used. C. Identifies correctly spelled words that are incorrectly used, like are used instead of our. D. Provides definitions for terms. 10. Which of the following is NOT an important criterion in evaluating a reference book for healthcare documentation? A. Publisher reputation for producing quality references. B. Recent copyright date, especially for drug and surgical references. C. Price. D. Authors, editors, and contributors having credentials in healthcare.