HSC 111 CHAP7

25 July 2022
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Historically, inpatient developed ______________ outpatient care.
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Before
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Outpatient care accounts for what percent of gross patient revenue for all US hospitals?
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40%
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What is the likely impact of ACA on primary care?
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Increase
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Emergency departments, in most cases, are equipped to provide
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1. Secondary care services 2. Tertiary care services
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Which of the following is a typical setting for ambulatory care services?
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Sports medicine clinics
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Typically, tertiary care:
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Is highly specialized
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Which of the following is an example of secondary care services?
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1. Rehabilitation 2. Surgery 3. Consultation
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What is gatekeeping?
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The process by which primary care physicians refer patients to specialists
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Which countries healthcare system is founded on the principles of gatekeeping?
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UK
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Countries whose health system are oriented more toward primary care achieve:
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Higher satisfaction with health services among their population
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How is community-oriented primary care (COPC) different from primary care?
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COPC adds a population-based approach to identifying an understanding community health problems
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Which of the following factors help determine the proportion of primary care personnel to specialist needed for the adequate provision of primary care
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1. How rigidly the healthcare delivery system employs gatekeeping 2. The populations rates of utilization of primary care services
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The percentage of medical school graduates choosing careers in primary care is __________
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Decreasing
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The most prominent reason for the decline in the number of procedures performed in hospital is
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Most of these procedures were shifted to outpatient settings
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What does "PPS" stand for?
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Prospective payment system
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Which of the following is a reason for the growth in outpatient services?
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1. Managed care 2. New technology 3. Patient preference
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One reason woman's health centers were created is?
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Woman see care more often than men
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Hospice services are primarily for people with?
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Terminal illnesses
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What is palliation?
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Pain and symptom management
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Community health center serve primarily:
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Populations which are medically underserved
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Historically, outpatient care has been independent from services provided in healthcare institutions.
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True
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Woman visit healthcare providers more often than men.
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True
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Men report more chronic illness then woman.
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False
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There is little distinction between the terms "outpatient" and "ambulatory"
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True
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Compared to tertiary care, primary care services are more complex and specialized
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False
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All ambulatory care is primary care
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False
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Primary care may play an important role in mitigating the adverse health effects of income inequality
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True
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Delivery of healthcare with a central focus on specialization cannot maximize health
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True
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The proliferation of healthcare delivery through managed-care created a decrease demand for primary care physicians
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False
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Primary care practice in most industrialized countries is public
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False