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How did the report of quality measures to CMS begin? - Hospitals could voluntarily report quality measures starting in 2001- adapting to current state from there What is HCAHPS - Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and System What are some metrics for outcome of care? - mortality, readmission, complications, hospital associated infections Describe "Pay for performance" - provide financial incentives to hospitals, physicians, and other providers to carry out improvement a...

Rounding and PFAC are - proven patient experience practices employee engagement - the reflections of the relationship between an organization and its employees High employee engagement is strongly correlated with - higher pat sat, lower safety incidents recognition - acknowledgement for a person's effectiveness incentive - motivates or encourages a person to do something

Six Domains of HCAHPS Survey - 1. Communication with nurses; 2. Communication with doctors; 3. Responsiveness of hospital staff; 4. Pain management; 5. Discharge of information; 6. Care Transition Two Individual Questions of HCAHPS Survey - 1. Cleanliness of hospital; 2. Quietness of hospital Two Overall Questions of HCAHPS Survey - 1. Overall rating 1-10; 2. Recommend hospital Challenges of HCAHPS Survey - 1. Unclear definition; 2. Multiple cross-cutting themes; 3. Lengthy survey; 4. Low s...

HVBP stands for - Hospital Value Based Purchasing HVBP defined - medicare system of reimbursing for quality care DRG stands for - Diagnosis Related Group DRG defined - a class of illnesses for which Medicare pays a fixed amount instead of what is actually paid out to treat patient Level of diversity in healthcare workers vs. patients - level of diversity is uneven 7 areas of cultural sensitivity - communication, personal space, eye contact, family organization, values, religion 4 core co...

The smallest unit of information consisting of either a 1 or a 0. It can either represent two possibilities - yes or no, black or white. - What is a Bit? 8 bits - What is a Byte? A sensor larger than 35mm and smaller than 4x5 inches. Used in high end large format printing, 4 color printing, and billboards. - Define Medium format camera Smallest of sensor sizes best used for web images, small prints, albums, wedding and event photography - Define Crop sensor camera Sensor same size as the ...

Public health laws approved by city or county boards must be approved by referendum Sensitivity true positive rate; proportion of positives correctly identified as such; A/A+C Specificity true negative rate; probability of testing negative if the disease is truly absent; D/B+D A confounding variable is associated with exposure; it can strengthen or weaken Rate data such as the number of events occurring in a specified period of time are often described by which probability distribution? ...

Which of the following principles of medical and public health ethics requires doing no harm while promoting the welfare of others? 1. Autonomy 2. Beneficence 3. Privacy 4. Justice 2. Beneficence Beneficence is defined as promoting the welfare of others while avoiding behavior that results in harm. Links References Weed, D.L., McKeown, R.E. (2001). Ethics in epidemiology and public health I. Technical terms. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55: 855-857. Retrieved from:...

Select the qualitative method that collects data through a simultaneous conversation with a group of people. informant interviews urse analysis ys groups groups A district health department is trying to decide whether to invest in interpretation services and translated materials to address local language barriers, address needs of limited English proficient (LEP) clients and meet Federal requirements. The Four Factor Analysis-to guide LHDs in meeting these mandates and to provide rec...

Public Health professionals have to learn to work effectively with the media. Public health is potentially appealing for the popular press because: 1. its stories have urgency, drama and novelty. 2. it is a source rich in detail, facts and figures. 3. scientists and journalists have a long history of mutual trust. 4. public information officers issue press releases. its stories have urgency, drama and novelty in the design and implementation of public health data systems, installing secur...

Many people do not attempt to decrease unhealthy behaviors such as overeating or smoking because they lack the confidence that they can successfully change. This is an example of: (A) Perceived susceptibility (B) Perceived severity (C) Perceived self-efficacy (D) Perceived response efficacy C The construct of normative beliefs is from which model/theory? (A) Transtheoretical model (B) Theory of reasoned action/planned behavior (C) Social cognitive theory (D) Social ecological model B ...