You are the Health Information Management Director at a hospital recently surveyed by the Joint Commission. Your department is using paper records....

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1. Calculate the allowable number of delinquent operative reports and H&Ps based on the requirement of 98% completion. As in #2, use average monthly discharges for H&P calculation keeping in mind that your threshold for acceptance is only 2%. For the operative report calculations, use average monthly operations. Compare the H&P acceptable amount with the H&P column and the operative reports to the operative report column to determine which are out of compliance. Show all your calculations in table format.