$1.$ Two weeks after being discharged, the patient scheduled a follow$-$up appointment with a specialist to assess how well his wounds have healed. The specialist provider would like a summary of the patient$$s interaction at the hospital and would also like to know how the institution is defining certain data elements such as length of stay, inpatient days, and so on$.$ Briefly describe two methods you could use to extract data from the data dictionary database to be sent to the specialist provider.

$2.$ What formula did you use to derive length of stay? Did you include the time in the emergency room in your calculation? Why or why not? What is the patient$$s length of stay according to your calculation?

$3.$ If the number of inpatient service days at the hospital for the month of December is $5,387,$ what is the average daily census?

$4.$ Why is it important that the specialist provider knows how the terms are defined and used at the institution?

$5.$ How does the use of vocabulary standards support data integrity and quality in healthcare? Examine the data$/$information governance life cycle steps. Determine which step best supports data integrity and quality.