A unit of language
What is a "word"?
“Freedom from accidental injury due to medical care, or medical errors,” where error is defined as “the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim”
What is patient safety?
The ethical principle that means the duty to promote good and to prevent harm. 2 elements: providing benefit and balancing benefits and harm.
What is beneficence?
Are passed through Congress are often written in broad terms and establish only general objectives that must be met
What are laws?
A construct representing the unique meaning for one or multiple terms
What is a "concept"?
“The degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge”
What is quality of care?
When there is a conflict between 2 or more ethical principles
What is ethical dilemma?
This Act imposes civil liability on any person who submits a claim to the federal government that he or she knows or should know to be false
What is The False Claims Act (FCA)?
A list of words or phrases that is organized alphabetically
What is "vocabulary"?
Ensures that patient preferences, needs, and values are front and center in the process of clinical decision making
What is patient centered?
The ethical foundation of nurse-client relationships- means faithfulness and keeping promises
What is fidelity?
This fraud can occur when paper claims with improper coding are sent to patients or their insurers
Is the study of how people design, implement, and evaluate interactive computer systems in the context of users’ tasks and work
What is Human-Computer Interaction?
Prevents the waste of valuable human and material resources
What is efficient?
The duty to cause no harm to others
What is nonmaleficence?
This fraud involves interstate use of wire, radio, or TV communication to commit fraud
What is wire fraud?
This term is the extent to which a product can be used by specific users in a specific context to achieve specific goals
What is usability?
The most common adverse event (an unintended and unfavorable effect of medical care or treatment) in hospital settings and are largely preventable through use of health IT systems with decision support at the bedside
What are medication errors?
Truthfulness, neither lying nor deceiving others
What is veracity?
These Alerts describe potential hazards to the quality of care and patient safety
What are Sentinel Event Alerts?