medical law and ethics. FINAL EXAM LATEST VERSION QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH STUDY GUIDE DETAILED AND VERIFIED FOR
GUARANTEED PASS, LATEST UPDATE 2025,2026 GRADED A
1. Access people are able to use appropriate health care services when necessary in order
to maintain and improve their health. For access to exist: 5w
2. Addendum A significant change or addition to the electronic health record (EHR).
3. Administrative Enabling statutes enacted to define powers and procedures when an agency is
law created.
4. Agents Health care practitioners act as their employers' agents when they schedule
patient appointments; speak with patients, their families, and representatives;
5. Amendment amendment used to clarify or correct information in the electronic health record.
6. Artificial insemi- The mechanical injection of viable semen into the vagina.
nation
7. Assault The open threat of bodily harm to another or acting in such a way as to put another
in the "reasonable apprehension of bodily harm."
8. Assumption of A legal defense that holds that the defendant is not guilty of a negligent act
risk because the plaintitt knew of and accepted beforehand any risks involved.
9. Autonomy The capacity to be one's own person and make one's own decisions without being
manipulated by external forces.
10. Autopsy A postmortem examination to determine the cause of death or to obtain physio-
logical evidence, as in the case of a suspicious death.
11. Beneficence Acts performed by a health care practitioner to help people stay healthy or recover
from illness.
12. Bioethics A discipline dealing with the ethical implications of biological research methods
and results, especially in medicine.
13. Birth rate
, medical law and ethics. FINAL EXAM LATEST VERSION QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH STUDY GUIDE DETAILED AND VERIFIED FOR
GUARANTEED PASS, LATEST UPDATE 2025,2026 GRADED A
ditterent from fertility rates in that the denominator is not all women aged 15 to
44 but rather a specific age group. Statistics for fertility rates show a decline over
time in the United States from high to low fertility
14. Brain dead circulatory and respiratory functions have irreversibly ceased. the entire brain
including the brain stem, irreversibly ceased.
15. Breach An impermissible use or disclosure under the Privacy Rule that compromises the
security or privacy of PHI.
16. Breach of con- Failure of either party to comply with the terms of a legally valid contract.
tract
17. Case law law established through common and legal precedent
18. Child Abuse Pre- federal law passed in 1974, physicians are required to report causes of child absue
vention and
Treatment Act
19. Civil law does not involve crimes but instead involves wrongful acts against persons. Under
civil law, a person can sue another person, a business, or the government.
20. Clones/ cloning clone: organism produced asexually, from a single ancestor has the same genetic
makeup
cloning: the process used to create an exact genetic replica of another cell, tissue
or organisms
21. Common law The body of unwritten law developed in England, primarily from judicial decisions
based on custom and tradition.
22. Common sense Sound practical judgment.
23. Comparative An aflrmative defense claimed by the defendant, alleging that the plaintitt con-
negligence tributed to the injury by a certain degree.
AND ANSWERS WITH STUDY GUIDE DETAILED AND VERIFIED FOR
GUARANTEED PASS, LATEST UPDATE 2025,2026 GRADED A
1. Access people are able to use appropriate health care services when necessary in order
to maintain and improve their health. For access to exist: 5w
2. Addendum A significant change or addition to the electronic health record (EHR).
3. Administrative Enabling statutes enacted to define powers and procedures when an agency is
law created.
4. Agents Health care practitioners act as their employers' agents when they schedule
patient appointments; speak with patients, their families, and representatives;
5. Amendment amendment used to clarify or correct information in the electronic health record.
6. Artificial insemi- The mechanical injection of viable semen into the vagina.
nation
7. Assault The open threat of bodily harm to another or acting in such a way as to put another
in the "reasonable apprehension of bodily harm."
8. Assumption of A legal defense that holds that the defendant is not guilty of a negligent act
risk because the plaintitt knew of and accepted beforehand any risks involved.
9. Autonomy The capacity to be one's own person and make one's own decisions without being
manipulated by external forces.
10. Autopsy A postmortem examination to determine the cause of death or to obtain physio-
logical evidence, as in the case of a suspicious death.
11. Beneficence Acts performed by a health care practitioner to help people stay healthy or recover
from illness.
12. Bioethics A discipline dealing with the ethical implications of biological research methods
and results, especially in medicine.
13. Birth rate
, medical law and ethics. FINAL EXAM LATEST VERSION QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH STUDY GUIDE DETAILED AND VERIFIED FOR
GUARANTEED PASS, LATEST UPDATE 2025,2026 GRADED A
ditterent from fertility rates in that the denominator is not all women aged 15 to
44 but rather a specific age group. Statistics for fertility rates show a decline over
time in the United States from high to low fertility
14. Brain dead circulatory and respiratory functions have irreversibly ceased. the entire brain
including the brain stem, irreversibly ceased.
15. Breach An impermissible use or disclosure under the Privacy Rule that compromises the
security or privacy of PHI.
16. Breach of con- Failure of either party to comply with the terms of a legally valid contract.
tract
17. Case law law established through common and legal precedent
18. Child Abuse Pre- federal law passed in 1974, physicians are required to report causes of child absue
vention and
Treatment Act
19. Civil law does not involve crimes but instead involves wrongful acts against persons. Under
civil law, a person can sue another person, a business, or the government.
20. Clones/ cloning clone: organism produced asexually, from a single ancestor has the same genetic
makeup
cloning: the process used to create an exact genetic replica of another cell, tissue
or organisms
21. Common law The body of unwritten law developed in England, primarily from judicial decisions
based on custom and tradition.
22. Common sense Sound practical judgment.
23. Comparative An aflrmative defense claimed by the defendant, alleging that the plaintitt con-
negligence tributed to the injury by a certain degree.
