Hypertension (high blood pressure) is the silent killer, but this disease is the silent disease.
What is Osteoporosis?
100
This process involves identifying and treating individuals that are asymptomatic, but who have risk factors for a disease.
What is Secondary Prevention?
100
This is all about Determining who is the most stable and who is the least stable
What is patient prioritization?
100
This is a type of communication tool that “closes the loop” between sender and receiver.
WHAT is Verbal repeat back?
100
This involves health screening for risk factors, immunizations, health risk assessment, and education
What is Primary Prevention?
200
Smoking, alcohol, high BMI, inactivity, high blood pressure, and poor diet
What are risk factors for disease onset?
200
These are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
What are health disparities?
200
…principal causes of health-related suffering, disability, and death, and account for the vast majority of health care expenditures.
What does chronic disease lead to (in the United States)?
200
This is the process of collecting the best medication history possible, verifying the list, and comparing it to orders written at admission, transfer, and discharge.
What is medication reconciliation?
200
Regardless of the level of prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary) this can't hurt in helping a patient take care of him or herself.
What is educate, educate, educate?
300
Discontinuance of this one habit is the right step towards helping the control of pulmonary problems.
What is smoking?
300
Community designs that encourage walking and biking, and schools that offer high-quality physical education
What are environmental approaches aimed at preventing disease?
300
This process has to begin upon admission and actively involve the patient (and caregivers). It is not considered complete until the patient has been discharged to a new point of care (home, skilled nursing, home care, etc.).
What is discharge planning?
300
These categories include neighborhoods and environment, health and health care, economic stability, education and social and community context
What are social determinants of health?
300
Improves quality of life, averts disease progression and complications, and reduces the number of emergency department visits.
What is effective patient self-management?
400
Medications are important in this form of care, with the aim to prevent disease.
What is tertiary prevention?
400
This institute resulted from the initiative to streamline some healthcare improvement. It's aim is focused on care, health, and cost.
What is the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)?
400
This is the scientific method used for action-oriented learning and tests a change in the real work setting.
What is a Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle?
400
This government organization is involved in capturing reportable data regarding the incidence of diseases and their trends in various regions (counties, states, federal,...)
What is the Centers for Disease Control?
400
These hurt both patients and caregivers and are most evident in hospital emergency departments
What are delays?
500
These measures are aimed at improving the health of the population, enhancing the experience and outcomes of the patient, and reducing the per capita cost of care for the benefit of communities.
What is the Triple Aim for Populations?
500
Dignity and respect, information sharing, participation, and collaboration are all hallmarks that define this type of care.
What is patient-(family)-centered care?
500
To prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by empowering Americans to make heart-healthy lifestyle choices and by improving care for those needing treatment.
What is the Million Dollar Initiative?
500
This is a positive, “let’s do something about it” attitude toward problems.
What is a leadership stance?
500
Improves quality of life, averts disease progression and complications, and reduces the number of emergency department visits.