Care in All Phases of Life Flashcards
What are the 6 elements of the APTA’s vision for 2020 adopted in 2000?
- Autonomous physical therapist practice
- Direct access
- Doctor of Physical Therapy and lifelong education
- Evidence-based practice
- Practitioner of choice for movement, function, and health
- Professionalism
What is the APTA’s new vision which was adopted in 2013?
Transforming society by optimizing movement to improve the human experience.
In 2000 the vision was of _____ focus.
Now the new vision is of _____ focus.
inward (directed at PTs and PTAs)
outward (directed at the US population)
What are the 8 principles of the new vision?
- identity
- quality
- collaboration
- value
- innovation
- consumer-centricity
- access/equality
- advocacy
What is the identity of the PT profession?
PT profession will define and promote the movement system as the foundation for optimizing movement
The _______ system is the core of physical therapist practice, education, and research
movement
What is the triple aim of health care reform?
- better care for individuals (improving the patient experience of care)
- better health for populations (improving the health of populations
- cost containment (reducing the per capita cost of health care)
What is the goal of the triple aim?
Align providers, payors, and patients
Who developed the triple aim?
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
How has the ideas on improving the health of the population evolved?
In the past the focus was on one patient at a time (after each gets ill).
Now the focus is on population health (illness prevention).
In the US health care costs increased __% per year from 100 to 2105
18
What are 5 emerging themes in health care?
- integrated models of care
- expansion of coverage
- refining payment methods
- linking payment to quality
- program integrity
The American Physical Therapy Association recognizes that physical therapists are uniquely qualified to assume ______ positions in efforts to prevent injury and disability, and fully supports the positive roles that physical therapists and physical therapist assistants play in the promotion of healthy lifestyles, wellness, and injury prevention.
leadership
What is a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)?
a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients and their personal physicians, and when appropriate, the patient’s family. Care is facilitated by registries, information technology, health information exchange and other means to assure that patients get the indicated care when and where they need and want it in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.
The AHRQ defines a medical home not simply as a place but as a model of what?
the organization of primary care that delivers the core functions of primary health care