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EDAC PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONSWITH CORRECT ANSWERS
ACA - Answer-Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Legislation passed in 2010 to
increase access to healthcare for all Americans and expand Medicaid coverage
AACN - Answer-American Association of College of Nursing
AAMC - Answer-Association of Medical College
ACHE - Answer-American College of Healthcare Executives
ASHE - Answer-American Society for Healthcare Engineering
Accountable vare - Answer-an accountable care organization is a group of healthcare
providers that give coordinated care and chronic disease management to improve
quality of care
Acuity - Answer-the intensity of care necessary to meet the needs of a patient
Adverse drug events (ADE) - Answer-generally unwanted, negative consequences
associated with the use of given medications
Asclepieion - Answer-Greek god and healing associated with patient rooms being
oriented to the sun
Ambulatory care - Answer-constitutes diagnostic and therapeutic services and
treatments provided to the walking (ambulatory) patient. In a restricted sense,
ambulatory care refers to care rendered to patients who come to physicians' offices,
outpatient departments of hospitals, and health centers to receive care
Big data - Answer-an evolving term that describes any voluminous about of structured,
semi-structured, and unstructured data that has the potential to be mined for information
Board of trustees - Answer-the governing body of an organization or corporation that is
generally elected by stakeholders to make decisions and policies
Bundled payments - Answer-bundling payment for services that patients receive across
a single episode of care, such as a knee replacement, designed to improve the quality
of care and lower costs
Business planning - Answer-determining the strategies, goals, and objectives of the
business by translating the current and strategic state in terms of costs and revenues
with regard to investments
, CAUTI - Answer-Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
CDC - Answer-Centers for Disease Control and Precention
C. difficile - Answer-a species of Gram-positive spore-forming bacteria
CLABSI - Answer-Central line-associated blood infections
Cloud computing - Answer-recently evolved computing terminology or metaphor based
on utility and consumption of computing resources. Cloud computing involves deploying
groups of remote servers and software networks that allow centralized data storage and
online access to computer services or resources
CMS - Answer-Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Commissioning - Answer-the process of outfitting the building with the equipment and
furniture not included as built-in features during construction - a quality oriented process
for achieving, verifying, and documenting that the performance of facilities, systems,
and assemblies meets defined objectives and criteria
DOE - Answer-Department of Energy
EDRA - Answer-Environmental Design Research Association
EHR - Answer-Electronic Health Record
Emergicenters - Answer-Care centers that are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and
accept patients with no appointments. They provide a wide range of routine services for
basic and acute conditions on a first-come, first-serve basis
ENERGYSTAR - Answer-A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency voluntary program
that helps businesses and individuals save money and protect our climate through
superior energy efficiency It is an international standard for energy efficient products
originated in the U.S.
Evidence-based design - Answer-the process of basing decisions about the built
environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes
Evidence-based medicine - Answer-a form of medicine that aims to optimize decision
making by emphacising the use of evidence from well-designed conducted research
Environment of Care (EOC) - Answer-the understanding that the experience a person
has in a healthcare delivery system is a function of six components: physical
environment, layout and operations, systems, people, concepts, and implementation
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