QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Escalating costs in health care delivery have resulted in. Answer: -
medical necessity requirements to justify acute care hospitalizations
- review of appropriateness of admissions
-requirements for administration of quality and effective treatments.
(Basically means that because of higher costs health care companies
have to ensure that the admissions of patients is absolutley necessary and
that the treatment is only what is exactley needed and that its quality
time.)
◉ The performance of outpatient testing and surgical procedures has
increased due to. Answer: health care technological advances
◉ Because health care consumers are better educated and demand
higher-quality, more cost-effective health care the focus is on what?.
Answer: primary and preventative care
◉ Prehistoric medicine/ancient medicine. Answer: Characterized by the
belief that illness was caused by the supernatural; an attempt to explain
, changes in body functions that were not understood (e.g., evil spirits
were said to have invaded the body of the sick person).
◉ In prehisoric medicne, who was the first to consider medicine a
science seperate from religion.. Answer: Hippocrates
◉ what was adopted to express early medical ethics and reflected high
ideals?. Answer: The Hippocratic Oath
◉ Medieval Medicine. Answer: Developed during the Middle Ages (or
Dark Ages), its most significant event was the construction of hospitals
to care for the sick (e.g., bubonic plague).
◉ Medieval medicine hospitals were ran by who?. Answer: Monks and
nuns, the care of patients was based on charity rather than the scientific
principles.
◉ Renaissance Medicine. Answer: -Characterized by a renewed interest
in the arts and sciences.
-This marked the beginning of modern medicine, based on education
instead of spiritual beliefs.
◉ Modern Medicine. Answer: -Many discoveries paved the way for new
understanding of the disease process and treatments.
-Health care as a proffesion became more acceptable