HCM Final Test Questions & Answers 2024/2025
In today's hospitals, outpatient clinics frequently provide: - ANSWERSall of the above
By law, the patient bill of rights must be displayed in all hospitals. - ANSWERSTrue
Early in the history of our country, hospitals were only for the wealth...
In today's hospitals, outpatient clinics frequently provide: - ANSWERSall of the above
By law, the patient bill of rights must be displayed in all hospitals. - ANSWERSTrue
Early in the history of our country, hospitals were only for the wealthy. - ANSWERSFalse
Community hospitals have been negatively impacted by the development and competition of private
specialty hospitals and diagnostic centers owned by physicians - ANSWERSTrue
Hospitals have adopted information technology at slower rates than physician offices. - ANSWERSfalse
Insurers, based on their own self interests, have contributed a vast sum of money to spread
misinformation and raise unwarranted fears about health care reform. - ANSWERStrue
Managed care refers to arrangements that link health care financing and service delivery and allows
payers to exercise significant economic control over how and what services are delivered - ANSWERStrue
Problems with quality and appropriateness of care dramatically affect cost of care. - ANSWERStrue
The "unintended" effects of healthcare legislation included which of the following? - ANSWERSAll of the
above
There has been a steady increase in hospital admission since 1980. - ANSWERSFalse
The shift from personal to insurance payment in healthcare distanced patients from awareness of costs
and resposibilities for decisions. - ANSWERSTrue
, The nursing department is typically one of the smallest components of the hospital organization. -
ANSWERSFalse
The VA healthcare system: - ANSWERSAll of the above
The healthcare system of the United States consumes more than 17% of the gross domestic product. -
ANSWERSTrue
The American Medical Association is the largest lobbying group for medical concerns. - ANSWERSTrue
Which of the following are true regarding the healthcare system before 1940? - ANSWERSfees were
mostly paid by personal payment
Which of the following is false regarding the role of medical education in our healthcare system? -
ANSWERSthey supply an adequate number of primary care doctors to staff the healthcare system.
Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system challenge
because: - ANSWERSNeither Medicare nor private insurance support ongoing, non-acute services
Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention refers to: -
ANSWERSHealth promotion and specific protection
Americans spend billions of dollars each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This trend
has caused: - ANSWERSmany insurers and managed companies to consider them less expensive and
equally effective in keeping patients feeling well
The service priorities of the US health care system reflect America's fascination with dramatic high-tech
medicine. As a result: - ANSWERSAll of the above
The trio of persistent concerns about the health care system are: - ANSWERSAccess, quality, and cost
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