Of the 5,352 requests for medical records in the question above, 4,257 were located within the 20-minute time frame established by the supervisor as a quality improvement indicator. What is the rate of compliance in answering requests for records? Round to two decimal points.

4,257/5,352 = ?

Community Health Center, a new patient clinic in your town serving only underinsured and uninsured patients, has asked you to help its HIM department get started. Calculate the number of new shelving units needed for a medical record filing system based on 8 shelves per unit at 36 inches per shelf. The average record size equals .30 inches, and the center anticipates seeing 4,500 patients the first year.

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To find the rate of compliance in answering requests for records, we need to divide the number of requests that were located within the 20-minute time frame by the total number of requests and then multiply by 100 to get the percentage.

Given:
Total number of requests for medical records: 5,352
Number of requests located within the 20-minute time frame: 4,257

Rate of compliance = (Number of requests located within 20 minutes / Total number of requests) * 100

Rate of compliance = (4,257 / 5,352) * 100

To calculate this, we divide 4,257 by 5,352 and then multiply the result by 100.

Now, let's calculate it step by step:

Step 1: Perform the division calculation:
4,257 / 5,352 = 0.796

Step 2: Multiply the result by 100 to convert it to a percentage:
0.796 * 100 = 79.6

Therefore, the rate of compliance in answering requests for medical records is 79.6%.

Rounding this to two decimal places, as per the question's instruction, we get 79.60%.