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EDAC STUDY GUIDE EXAM #1QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
List four major stakeholders in a healthcare facility and the purpose that facility serves
for each of them. - Answer-"1Patients and families - healing environment
2Staff - work environment
3Providers of healthcare - business environment
4Community and organization - cultural environment
"
Define evidence-based design. - Answer-EBD is the process of basing decisions about
the built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes
List the seven major trends facing healthcare today. - Answer-"1. Public focus on quality
and safety
2. Reimbursement challenges
3. Aging population and caregiver shortages
4. Health information technology
5. Genomics and technology
6. Emergency room saturation and disaster preparedness
7. Sustainable healthcare
"
EBD can positively influence the current trends and challenges healthcare faces by... -
Answer-"- reducing medical errors and therefore cost of care
- improving satisfaction and efficiency of caregivers thus helping employee recruitment
and retention
- designing a physical environment supportive of new IT and work processes
- providing innovative, adaptable designs maximizing disaster response
"
HAI is a ______(a)_______ and is now more generically referred to as
______(b)______. - Answer-"a. Hospital-Acquired Infection
b. Healthcare-Associated Infection
"
An HAI is defined as... - Answer-...an infection that a patient acquires during the course
of receiving treatment for another condition within a healthcare setting.
List the two major factors that increased healthcare costs in the US ares associated
with. - Answer-"1. Increased life expectancy
2. Cost of new medical technology
"
, "Ch1Q1: Evidence-based design is the process of basing decisions about _______ on
credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes.
a. patient outcomes
b. the built environment
c. nursing staff-to-patient ratios" - Answer-b. the built environment
"Ch1Q2: Which of the following clinical and safety outcomes are not typically affected by
the design of the physical health environment?
a. medical errors
b. adverse reactions to drugs
c. hospital-acquired infections" - Answer-b. adverse reactions to drugs
Ch1Q3: True or False: Employee turnover rates may be influenced by the physical
design of a healthcare facility? - Answer-TRUE
"Ch1Q4: The goal of the business case for EBD is to determine how healthcare facility
investments contribute to improvements in patient-care quality and the safety and
satisfaction of both patients and staff while positively enhancing ____________.
a. the bottom line
b. the physical design
c. workforce efficiency" - Answer-a. the bottom line
"Ch1Q5: Central to making the business case for physical design innovations is the
need to balance ____________ against ongoing operating savings and revenue
enhancements.
a. patient outcomes
b. one-time construction costs
c. longer design and construction timelines" - Answer-b. one-time construction costs
"Ch1Q6: Staff outcomes that may not be influenced by the design of the physical
healthcare environment are:
a. turnover
b. efficiency
c. personality" - Answer-c. personality
List the three types of settings in which healthcare is provided. - Answer-"1. inpatient
hospitals
2. primary and outpatient care facilities
3. long-term care facilities
"
Inpatient hospitals can be classified by which categories? - Answer-"- ownership
- length of stay
- type of service
- public access
- location
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