Check Your Understanding 8.1 1. The most granular element in a database is: a. Data field b. Data table c. Data type d. Data frequency system analyst who downloads 20 coded diagnoses from 100 patients' prob. in the electronic record and graphs the most frequent occurrence of the top five 2. The clinical diagnoses is practicing: a. Data abstraction b. Clinical coding c. Data analytics d. Clinical documentation improvement The data analyst is working with a physician group to extract data about smoking history on patients in the physician practice. The analyst is having difficulty downloading mean- ingful reports on patients' smoking status because some physicians coded smoking status in the electronic record and some physicians typed the patients' smoking status into a free text comment field. This scenario demonstrates the problem of which of the four Vs dis- cussed above: a. Velocity 3. b. Veracity c. Volume d. Value 4. What is a primary key in a database table? a. First possible column b. First available data type Unique identifier of the records in a table The same as a foreign key c. d. Continued