Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
33 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
What is the term which describes health-care workers and institutions that make health-care services available to those who want or need them?
|
Health-Care Providers
|
|
What do the initials HMO stand for?
|
Health Maintenance Organization
|
|
What term describes methods designed to control the quality of health care as well as the cost of health care?
|
health-care regulation
|
|
What are the two major categories of ownership within the health-care system?
|
government and private
|
|
What term is used to denote "short-term' illness?
|
acute
|
|
What federal program provides hospital and medical insurance protection for people over sixty-five years of age?
|
Medicare
|
|
What federal and state program provides medical assistance for persons receiving public assistance?
|
Medicaid
|
|
What is the patient classification system set up by Medicare designed to help contain the cost of health care and reduce the burden on Medicare financing?
|
Diagnosis Related Groups
|
|
What person in the health care setting has the responsibility to recruit and interview applicants who wish to fill a position within his/her institution?
|
Director of Human Resources
|
|
A health care program for patients who are terminally ill is called what?
|
hospice
|
|
What health care employee is the business manager who supervises the business office and is responsible for the hospital finances?
|
Comptroller
|
|
What role does the medical transcriptionist play in the health care setting?
|
types medical dictation
|
|
What type of planning includes nursing home placement, home care planning, transportation, referrals to community resources and follow-up?
|
discharge planning
|
|
What are expenses incurred by hospitals in the treatment of patients?
|
hospital costs
|
|
What is the term for the twenty-four hour period of time during which hospital services are provided to a hospitalized patient?
|
hospital day
|
|
What outside influence has contributed to increased hospital costs such as increased wages, cost of supplies, and replacement of obsolete equipment?
|
inflation
|
|
What two major groups in society are most likely to have poor health?
|
(any order)
elderly, poor |
|
Name three external funding sources used to help finance hospitals.
|
(Any order) private grants, government grants
long-term commercial borrowing |
|
How are hospitals classified?
|
control of ownership and type of services rendered
|
|
What type of hospitals are controlled by the federal government?
|
(any order) Military, U.S. Public service
Veterans administration |
|
What type of hospital operates for a profit?
|
Proprietary
|
|
Name the most common agency which provides evaluation and inspection of health care facilities.
|
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations
|
|
Name the founder of the hospice movement.
|
Cicely Saunders, M.D.
|
|
When did Congress approve coverage of hospice services under Medicare?
|
1982
|
|
When was the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare established?
|
1953
|
|
What is the current name of the previously established U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare?
|
Department of Health and Human Services
|
|
What federal program offers veterans certain medical care for a limited time following discharge from military service?
|
Veterans administration
|
|
What type of review deals with the evaluation of professional practice of an individual by practicing members of the same profession?
|
peer review
|
|
What type of review deals with the evaluation of patterns of health care provided to patients in a specific health care agency?
|
agency review
|
|
Which branch of the U.S. Public Health Services provides health care to Native Americans on the reservations?
|
Project Hope
|
|
What type of health care promotes good health and early diagnosis and prevention of disease through services provided by various members of the health care team?
|
Primary Health Care
|
|
What type of health care consists of the diagnosis and treatment that comes after a patient enters the health-care system?
|
High School Health Care
|
|
What type of care involves rehabilitation and restoration of an individual to maximum functioning potential following an acute illness?
|
Tertiary care
|