Chapter 11 - A
Specialized patient records are especially characterized as being this.
What is being voluminous, creating storage issues?
Charitable immunity is this.
What is the shielding of health care institutions from liability for employee negligence?
Discovery requests for information from patient records must be complied with this.
What are court orders authorizing disclosure are based on a finding of good cause?
This incident would be reported to the risk manager.
What is a surgical procedure performed on the wrong site?
HIPAA addresses genetic testing by this.
What is prohibiting it from being considered a preexisting condition for health insurance? |
This federal government official has the power to promulgate rules and regulations.
Who is the DHHS Secretary?
This is the most important way to reduce an organization’s risk due to loss or litigation.
What is proper documentation?
State laws may provide additional requirements regarding mental health care documentation in excess of federal regulations, such as this.
What are written program plans with goals of treatment?
This is an example of a sentinel event.
What is a patient who reports being aware during surgery?
Medicare conditions of participation require that home health staff do this.
What is maintain certain professional qualifications?
This statement is associated with federal regulations regarding the patient identification in a substance abuse program?
What is "A substance abuse treatment facility has an unconditional obligation not to identify patients who have been treated."
This data mining technique associated with the electronic health record enhances security and reduces patient risk.
What is identification of inconsistent patient record entries.?
The release of mental health information is this.
What is subject to strict rules regarding confidentiality, pursuant to individual state laws?
This is an investigation into a serious event, including clinical and administrative review.
What is a root-cause analysis?
Quality management is described as this.
What is a clinical function that seeks to define optimum performance?
A substance abuse treatment release of information is invalid if it fails to include this.
What is a purpose of disclosure?
An adverse incident is defined as this.
What is an event inconsistent with normal routine operations?
The proper disclosure of home health care records is regulated by this.
What are Medicare conditions of participation?
The Joint Commission’s role in sentinel events includes this.
What is the possibility of placing the organization on accreditation watch status?
This is an obstacle to peer review activities.
What is fear of reprisals for candid criticism?
An invalid release of information contains this.
What is information known to be false?
This is characteristic of an incident report.
What is documents circumstances to assess for the possibility of impending litigation?
The law speaks to mandatory testing in this way.
What is it may be enforced through a court order?
The function of analyzing and evaluating all of the risks that affect an organization is called this.
What is enterprise risk management?
Peer Review Organizations (PROs) do this.
What is monitor the appropriateness and quality of outcomes?