US healthcare systems practice Questions With Verified Answers.
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US healthcare systems practice Questions
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1. In colonial America, the primary functions of hospitals were to: - answershelter older adults,
the dying, orphans, and vagrants and protect community residents from contagiously sick and
mentally ill persons.
The development th...
Until the mid-1980s, hospitals were reimbursed for whatever they charged on a "retrospective"
basis. Now they are paid a certain amount for each patient's care on a "prospective" basis. The
amount they are paid is based on: - answer✔diagnosis related groups (DRGs)
Hospitals in the future health care system will: - answer✔no longer be the axis of health care
delivery but will retain core roles as sites of sophisticated care, professional teaching and clinical
research.
Which of the following terms refers to a health care system that includes several service
components with each addressing one or more dimensions of a population's health care needs? -
answer✔Vertically integrated
For many years, the standard for assessing hospital quality of care was peer review using
physician audits of selected patient records to judge "the degree of conformity with preset
standards." All of the following were reasons for the ineffectiveness of these audits EXCEPT -
answer✔Hospital administrators influenced how reviewers were selected.
In its landmark report on hospital errors, "To Err is Human," the Institute of Medicine
emphasized that errors in care most typically originate from which one of the following sources?
- answer✔Deficiencies in the systems of care
Hospitals can no longer live in a four-walls, brick and mortar world." This statement refers to
which encompassing principle of health care reform? - answer✔The focus will be on population
health status with community-based care delivered in multiple provider sites.
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