Health Care Systems

Why is geriatric care in high-demand?

• Insurance is paying for more services for elderly patients

• People are living longer

• Older people can afford more expensive health care

• There is high employee turnover

A lab technician has a backlog of tests to run. As a result, the physician cannot analyze test results and prescribe treatment. What does this example show?

• Interdependence of the health care team

• Line of authority violation

• Cost containment method

• Type of delivery system

Lab testing is an example of what component of the health care delivery system?

• Services

• Consumers

• Health Care Personnel

• Payment for Services

You ordered a prescription through a mail-order company, and two weeks later you still have not received your order. Which measure of success for the company is NOT affected by this delay in delivery?

• Cost effectiveness

• Productivity

• Efficiency

• Patient satisfaction

The availability of the Internet and access to medical information has had what impact on health care consumers?

• They are more frequently taking responsibility for their own health

• They are spending less on health care

• They are more-likely to become involved in non-profit agencies

• They have a lesser understanding of their personal health.

What is common to both a nursing home and an independent living facility?

• They both care for elderly, disabled, or rehabilitation patients

• They are both proprietary agencies

• They are both very large agencies that employ thousands of employees

• They both care for patients who need help with the most basic of needs

Which of the following should be a result of using practice-management software?

• Saved time

• Decreased patient satisfaction

• Increases the time required to submit an insurance claim

• Allows office staff to access patient records without having to remember a password

Which of the following is an example of cost containment?

• Shift from preventing disease to treating disease

• Increasing the length of hospital stays

• Ordering more tests than is necessary

• Treatment in outpatient settings

Which of the following describes a system?

• The patients that a health care facility cares for

• The process of creating goals for a health care facility

• An area of the health care system with a record of success

• A group of individual parts that work together to form a unified whole

Hospitals vary in which of the following ways

• size (small vs. large)

• Ownership

• Services

• all of these