Chapter 1 Quiz Flashcards
Health care delivery In Canada and the united States has been greatly impacted by escalating costs, resulting in medical necessity requirements (to justify acute care hospitalizations), review of appropriateness of admissions, and requirement for administration of quality and effective treatments. Which was implemented as a direct result of current health care methods?
A. Health care consumers demand higher quality, more costly health care, and the focus on primary and preventative care.
B. Patients routinely undergo preadmission testing on an out patient basis instead of being admitted as a hospital inpatient.
C. Tertiary-care level services provided by specialized hospitals equipped with diagnostic and treatment facilities are offered in all communities.
D. The performance of outpatient testing and surgical procedures has decreased due to advances in technology.
B.
Ultimate legal authority and responsibility for the hospital’s operation is the responsibility of the
a. administration
b. department chairpersons
c. governing board
d. medical staff
C
. An internist sees a patient with an unusual blood condition and then refers the patient to a specialist. This is an example of
a. continuity of care
b. primary care
c. secondary care
d. tertiary care.
A
. Many of the physicians in a teaching hospital are interns and residents who work under the supervision of senior staff physicians. A resident has
a. a medical degree and is continuing training immediately following completion of the four year medical curriculum
b. been granted active medical staff status by the health care facility
c. completing an internship and is engaged in a program of advanced specialized training.
d. not yet written the state licensing exam to become a physician (e.g. MD)
A
Medical staff policies that delineate medical staff responsibilities are called
a. bylaws
b. procedures
c. regulations
d. rules
A
. Coders assign ICD-10-CM procedure codes to which of the following cases?
a. emergency room
b. inpatient
c. outpatient
d. physician office
B
The purpose of abstracting patient cases is to
a. classify diagnoses and procedures for facilities
b. generate statistical reports and disease/procedure indexes.
c. identify deficiencies in the discharged patient record
d. process reimbursement for inpatient and outpatient care
B
- If a facility adopts the universal chart order, this means that
a. after a patient is discharged from the health care facility, the record is assembled in chronological date order.
b. discharged patient records are maintained in chronological date order to eliminate the patient record assembly task.
c. inpatient reports are filed in strict chronological order within each section of the patient records.
d. the discharged patient record is organized in the same order as when the patient was on the nursing floor.
D
