Definitions
Access to Health Care
Quality of Health Care
Roles/responsibilities
Paying for Health Care
100
A failure to meet the standard of practice of an average qualified physician (PA) practicing in the same specialty
What is medical negligence?
100
Unexplained differences in health outcomes associated with race, ethnicity, gender, language, sexual orientation, or income.
What is health care disparities?
100
Failure of a planned action to be completed as intended, or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim.
What is medical errors?
100
This health care professional serves as primary and specialty care provider, providing a blend of nursing and healthcare services to patients and families.
What is a nurse practitioner?
100
A mode of paying for health care in which the payment goes directly from the patient to the provider.
What is "out-of-pocket" payment?
200
“The provision of health services to individuals, families, and/or their communities by at least two health providers who work collaboratively with patients and their caregivers, to the extent preferred by each patient, to accomplish shared goals within and across settings to achieve coordinated, high-quality care.”
What is team-based health care?
200
The process of applying beliefs and expectations about a group to a person from that group.
What is stereotyping?
200
The evaluation by health care practitioners of the appropriateness and quality of services performed by other practitioners, usually in the same specialty.
What is peer review?
200
This health care professional assists patients with living skills and to recover work abilities. They may plan educational, vocational, and recreational activities in a variety of settings.
What is an occupational therapist
200
A method of reimbursement per patient that shifts the risk to providers by providing per capita payments.
What is capitation?
300
Substituting a different medication from that prescribed which is in the same "class"
What is therapeutic substitution?
300
This model of health care delivery emphasizes primary and preventative care and also strives to take responsibility for the health status of the community it serves.
What is Community Health Centers?
300
This method of quality evaluation involves the identification of concrete problems and the formation of interdisciplinary teams to gather data and propose solutions.
What is CQI (or continuous quality improvement)
300
This health care professional provides services that help restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and prevent or limit permanent physical disability.
What is a physical therapist?
300
The centerpiece of delivery system reform defined as a provider-led organization whose mission is to manage the full continuum of care and be accountable for the overall costs and quality of care for a defined population.
What is accountable care organization (ACO)
400
The resource used for billing which is expanding to include 68,000 diagnostic codes effective October 1, 2014.
What is ICD-10 (or International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems-10th edition)
400
This is a model of primary care with goals of delivering accessible, comprehensive, longitudinal and coordinated care with an emphasis on patient-centeredness.
What is patient-centered medical home?
400
The "gold standard" for measuring quality.
What is "outcomes?"
400
This health care professional counsels patients about medications, collaborate on patient safety programs to reduce the epidemic of medication errors, monitor drug use for chronic disease management, and participate on multidisciplinary clinical teams.
What is a pharmacist?
400
The full and legal name of "Obamacare"
What is Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
500
A malpractice reform options which provides compensation to patients suffering medical injury regardless if the injury is due to negligence.
What is no-fault reform?
500
Health outcomes are determined by multiple factors. In addition to medical care and public health interventions, this is the dominant influence on health status.
What is socioeconomic status?
500
A new and expanding P4P program for health information technology.
What is meaningful use?
500
This health care professional works under the delegated authority of a physician to provide routine diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventative health care services.
What is a physician assistant?
500
The new ACA law is expected to reduce the number of uninsured by as many as _____________people.
What is thirty two million?
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