Responsibilities to Patients
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Public Health
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Hodgepodge
100
The two most common tools used during the discovery process are interrogatories and ______
What is depositions?
100
Measures taken to prevent the spread of disease, either from patient to patient or from patient to healthcare worker...
What is isolation?
100
One of the main areas that public health officials concentrate on is prevention of ______________
What is disease and injuries?
100
The occurrence of disease in many different populations or geographical locations...
What is pandemic?
100
This type of controlled substance has a high potential for abuse and no medical approval by the FDA...
What is Schedule I?
200
Relationships recognized by the law with special protection include doctor/patient, priest/penitent, attorney/client and _______
What is husband/wife?
200
Information gathered by governmental agencies related to births, detahts, marriages and divorces....
What is vital statistics?
200
Public health laws fall into 3 categories - law of populations, disease and injury protection, and ____
What is police powers?
200
The information gathered by governmental agencies related to births, marriages, divorces and deaths that occur in a population...
What is vital statistics?
200
This act was prompted by the outrage over medical waste dumping...
What is The Medical Waste Tracking Act?
300
The law of privileged communication and special relationships is provided to doctors but necessarily to _____
What is healthcare workers?
300
A medical professional whose responsibility is to determine the cause of death and gather forensic evidence...
What is a medical examiner?
300
If a death occurs outside of a hospital, it is automatically referred to the _________ office...
What is Medical Examiner?
300
Statements made in private, during the existence of certain relationships, that cannot be used as evidence in civil or criminal trials...
What is privileged communication?
300
This organization, a part of the United Nations, is a global public health agency...
What is WHO?
400
When providing patient care, your first and primary obligation is to _____
What is the patient?
400
Statements made in priviate, during the existence of certain relationships, that cannot be used as evidence in civil or criminal trials...
What is privileged communication?
400
When a healthcare institution issues a _________, it is verifying that a child has been born.
What is a birth certificate?
400
The study of the characteristics, determination, frequency, and distribution of a disease...
What is epidemiology?
400
When taking care of patients, medical personnel who find suspicious injuries or illnesses must report them to...
What is governmental agencies?
500
imposed isolation, most often used to contain individuals with highly contagious and/or deadly diseases....
What is quarantine?
500
Typically, when a person passes away, a Certificate of Death is completed and is sent to the ___________ office
What is Secretary of State?
500
The occurrence of disease in greater numbers that expected, or the development of disease in a shorter than normal time frame...
What is epidemic?
500
In the US, the national public health organization is the ...
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
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