PRACTICE TEST FOR TEXES HEALTH SCIENCE (273) | TOP
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How does Medicaid differ from Medicare Answer: medicaid is federally and state-
funded
What are the two leading causes of death in the US Answer: heart disease and cancer
The greatest benefit of adopting an electronic medical record system is Answer:
accessibility of information
The migration of educated healthcare providers from rural areas to urban areas or from
developing countries to developed countries is Answer: brain drain
The WHO focuses on? Answer: economics, disease prevention, and proverty
What is universal health care Answer: a specific type of health care where everyone is
provided health coverage regardless of their income, race, age, re-existing conditions,
gender or wealth
Under which health care model would you never receive a doctors bill? Answer: the
beveridge model
Why are demographic factors an important consideration when discussing health issues
Answer: knowledge of these factors can help doctors find the cause or stimulus for
certain diseases
How could the newly elected gov't of a low-income country work to achieve a higher life
expectancy for its citizens? Answer: begin a program for reducing the contaminants in
the drinking water
Deductible Answer: an amount of money you must pay for health care services
covered under your plan before the insurance company begins to pay for these services
-ex) if deductible is at 1500, then your insurance company doesn't pay anything for you
until you pay the first 1500
Coinsurance Answer: % share of the costs of a covered health care service that you
are responsible for
-ex) 1000 procedure, 20% coninsurance, out of pocket costs will be $200 which is 20%
of 1000 (the rest 80% of the bill will be paid to your doctor by your health insurance
company)
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, KUB stand for Answer: kidneys, ureters, bladder
the disease commonly called lupus is abbreviated as Answer: LE
what is the abbreviation for intramuscular Answer: IM
what does the abbreviation gtt mean? Answer: drops
what is the abbreviation for extended release? Answer: XL
what is the abbreviation for without? Answer: s
what does UA stand for? Answer: urinalysis
what is the abbreviation for write on label? Answer: Sig
what does ROS stand for Answer: review of systems
what abbreviation is used when there is not enough of a specimen for a lab test?
Answer: QNS
what is the abbreviation used to instruct a patient to take medication by mouth?
Answer: PO
what is not allergic to any medications? Answer: NKDA
what does the abbreviation afeb mean? Answer: without fever
what abbreviation is used to mean at bedtime? Answer: hs
the synonym for cranial is Answer: cephalic
if structure A is situated more towards the front than structure B, then structure A is
Answer: ventral to structure B
synarthrosis, amphiarthrosis, and diarthrosis the elbow is considered Answer:
diarthrosis
what is one reason that enzymes are present in the small intestine Answer: to break
down protein to amino acids
using the mnemonic FRE123, what does it tell us about a second class lever Answer:
the resistance is found in the middle of this lever system
in ectotherms, what controls body temp? Answer: external forces
if a muscle is held at a shortened resting length, then why is tension development
compromised? Answer: because the sacromere can only shorten soo much
communicaiton within your body is needed for homeostatis, which system(s) provides
this communication? Answer: nervous system and endocrine system
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SCORES MADE SIMPLE | TRUSTED TEST SOLUTIONS!
How does Medicaid differ from Medicare Answer: medicaid is federally and state-
funded
What are the two leading causes of death in the US Answer: heart disease and cancer
The greatest benefit of adopting an electronic medical record system is Answer:
accessibility of information
The migration of educated healthcare providers from rural areas to urban areas or from
developing countries to developed countries is Answer: brain drain
The WHO focuses on? Answer: economics, disease prevention, and proverty
What is universal health care Answer: a specific type of health care where everyone is
provided health coverage regardless of their income, race, age, re-existing conditions,
gender or wealth
Under which health care model would you never receive a doctors bill? Answer: the
beveridge model
Why are demographic factors an important consideration when discussing health issues
Answer: knowledge of these factors can help doctors find the cause or stimulus for
certain diseases
How could the newly elected gov't of a low-income country work to achieve a higher life
expectancy for its citizens? Answer: begin a program for reducing the contaminants in
the drinking water
Deductible Answer: an amount of money you must pay for health care services
covered under your plan before the insurance company begins to pay for these services
-ex) if deductible is at 1500, then your insurance company doesn't pay anything for you
until you pay the first 1500
Coinsurance Answer: % share of the costs of a covered health care service that you
are responsible for
-ex) 1000 procedure, 20% coninsurance, out of pocket costs will be $200 which is 20%
of 1000 (the rest 80% of the bill will be paid to your doctor by your health insurance
company)
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, KUB stand for Answer: kidneys, ureters, bladder
the disease commonly called lupus is abbreviated as Answer: LE
what is the abbreviation for intramuscular Answer: IM
what does the abbreviation gtt mean? Answer: drops
what is the abbreviation for extended release? Answer: XL
what is the abbreviation for without? Answer: s
what does UA stand for? Answer: urinalysis
what is the abbreviation for write on label? Answer: Sig
what does ROS stand for Answer: review of systems
what abbreviation is used when there is not enough of a specimen for a lab test?
Answer: QNS
what is the abbreviation used to instruct a patient to take medication by mouth?
Answer: PO
what is not allergic to any medications? Answer: NKDA
what does the abbreviation afeb mean? Answer: without fever
what abbreviation is used to mean at bedtime? Answer: hs
the synonym for cranial is Answer: cephalic
if structure A is situated more towards the front than structure B, then structure A is
Answer: ventral to structure B
synarthrosis, amphiarthrosis, and diarthrosis the elbow is considered Answer:
diarthrosis
what is one reason that enzymes are present in the small intestine Answer: to break
down protein to amino acids
using the mnemonic FRE123, what does it tell us about a second class lever Answer:
the resistance is found in the middle of this lever system
in ectotherms, what controls body temp? Answer: external forces
if a muscle is held at a shortened resting length, then why is tension development
compromised? Answer: because the sacromere can only shorten soo much
communicaiton within your body is needed for homeostatis, which system(s) provides
this communication? Answer: nervous system and endocrine system
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