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Hospital Departments & Committees
Patients Only
Laws & Standards
Paying for Care
Ethical Practices
100
This committee functions as a liaison between the pharmacy and the medical staff, with the role of overseeing the medical aspects of the hospital's pharmacy activities.
What is Pharmacy and Therapeutics?
100
A common method of dispensing medication to patients.
What is a unit does system?
100
These standards may be found in the NFPA 101 life safety code and the NFPA 99 sandard for health care facilities.
What is fire safety standards?
100
These important payment plans were enacted in 1965.
What is Medicare and Medicaid?
100
Early measures to prevent adverse events included these:
What is checklists (also, surgical site marking, and time out prior to procedures).
200
A hospital dept. with training in food handling and safety.
What is Dietary Services?
200
This is the main purpose of maintaining a patient record.
What is to document the course of the patient's illness and treatment?
200
Social workers in hospitals and in other health care settings are training and regulated according to these laws.
What are state laws?
200
These payers contract with providers to pay all or part of the bill for patients.
What are third-party payers?
200
The Name of the IOM study that triggered an increased awareness of medical errors was called this.
What is To Err is Human?
300
This department provides religious or spiritual services within a hospital.
What is Pastoral Service?
300
This person or entity own the patient's medical record.
Who is the patient?
300
This section of the Joint Commission standards address general safety, security, and fire safety.
What is the environmental care standards?
300
True or False - Providers may generally set charges based on what other providers are charging, as long as they do not conspire with the other providers.
What is True?
300
This is the primary barrier to effective medical peer review.
What is physician resistance to review of one another?
400
This department is responsible for heating, air conditioing and ventilation, power and lights.
What is the Plant Engineering Department?
400
These ethical principles -- autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence - apply to this form of care.
What is patient-centered care?
400
The services and quality of services the hospital delivers to the patient is included in a comprehensive questionnaire sent to the hospital for what purpose relating to maintaining standards?
What is accreditation?
400
The most predominant method of payment to health care providers is what type?
What is Medicare?
400
The act of balancing health care burdens with its benefits is called this term.
What is distributive justice?
500
This department is responsible for clinical lab equipment and patient monitoring equipment.
What is the biomedical department.
500
The core element of the principle of autonomy is this concept.
What is respect for persons (patients).
500
During a walk through by a JCAHO service team, this is observed and surveyed.
What are life safety code issues and crash carts (also correct - interview personnel and not deficiencies, and read procedure manuals and minutes of meetings and reviews with the administrator.)
500
Employers trying to save money on their health costs may try this approach.
What is Managed Care?
500
This type of ethics could be described as when physicians make decisions concerning the best way to deal with he ethics of complex patient situations.
What are bio-ethics?