Soziologie

Question 1

Key aims of health care (STEEEP)

Answer 1

Safety 
Timeliness 
Effectiveness 
Efficiency
Equitable care principles 
Focus on patient needs

Question 2

Donabedian model: measures of health care quality

Answer 2

Structural measures: physician-patient ratio
Process measures: percentage of individuals who reveice a preventive service
outcome measures: morbidity, mortality
balancing measures: cost-benefit analysis of hiring more physicians to HbA1c outcome

Question 3

Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)

Answer 3

self-reporting of quality measures and outcome measures (based if STEEEP)

Question 4

HIPAA privacy rule

Answer 4

According to the HIPAA privacy rule, access to and disclosure of protected health information must be limited to the minimum necessary to fulfill the intended function for which it was requested. In this case, the intended function is to facilitate claims payments, which is covered under “Permitted Uses and Disclosures” in the HIPAA, and the patient’s health insurance company only requested information on the duration of hospitalization for this purpose. This response is most appropriate because it provides the requested information and nothing beyond that.