Healthcare Delivery System
An interdisciplinary program of palliative care and supportive services that addresses the physical, spiritual, social, and economic needs of the terminally ill and their families
What is HOSPICE?
Encompasses actions brought when one party believes another party caused harm through wrongful conduct.
What is tort law?
Raw facts, figures, and numbers that lack clear meaning
What is data?
Outlines and justifies a patient's treatment, diagnosis, describes progress and response to medication and services, and explains outcomes of the care provided.
What is HEALTH RECORD?
This part of the health record includes facts such as: patient name, address, telephone number, date of birth, social security number, etc.
What is DEMOGRAPHICS?
Today, medical school students must pass a test before they can obtain a _____ to practice medicine.
What is LICENSE?
Intentional destruction, mutilation, alteration, or concealment of evidence.
What is SPOLIATION?
Data planning, data inventory and evaluation, data capture, data transformation and processing, data access and distribution, data maintenance, data archival, and data destruction are stages of _____.
What is DATA LIFE CYCLE?
Completed at the beginning of a patient’s office visit or hospital admission in order to determine what problems or issues the patient is having.
What is HISTORY AND PHYSICAL (H&P)?
Hospitals seek _____ in order to prove they meet the standards of legitimate and appropriate medical practice.
What is ACCREDITATION?
Using a process that is known as _____, CMS and the Joint Commission both require that healthcare professionals assess the work of colleagues in the same profession.
What is PEER REVIEW?
This type of advanced directive specifies an individual's wish not to receive treatment (specially CPR)
What is DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE ORDER (DNR)?
"Data about data"
What is METADATA?
Record reviews that are conducted while a patient is still in the facility are considered ________ reviews.
What are CONCURRENT?
Define EMTALA.
What is Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act?
The ______ developed the first hospital standardization program.
What is the AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS?
The owner of the health record.
Who is THE HEALTHCARE FACILITY?
A broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions
What is BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE?
Dr. Smith, a surgeon at Memorial Hospital, removes Jane Berry’s appendix due to suspected appendicitis. Dr. Smith must dictate the operative report ______ after the surgical procedure is completed.
What is IMMEDIATELY?
The fundamental purpose and scope of the DG program.
What is MISSION STATEMENT?
The most appropriate setting to seek healthcare services on a Saturday morning and your 6-month-old baby is fussy, running a fever of 102, and pulling on his ear.
What is URGENT CARE?
Misty is a nurse working at Major Hospital, Misty fails to administer medication to a patient, resulting in patient harm. The doctrine of ______ would impose liability on Major Hospital.
What is RESPONDEAT SUPERIOR?
Describes a real or conceptual structure that organizes a system or concept.
What is a FRAMEWORK?
Dr. Laney discharges George Duncan to go home after a five-day hospital stay. Dr. Laney has ______ days after discharge to complete Mr. Duncan's discharge summary.
What is 30 days?
This person has the sole responsibility of documenting the H&P in a patient record.
Who is the HEALTHCARE PROVIDER?