FACHE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM PREP
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
STUDY RESOURCE
●● Mission
Answer: The central purpose of an organization; its reason for existence.
●● Population Health
Answer: The health of a defined group of individuals, such as a state or
civil division, or insured group, measured by the incidence and
prevalence of disease or infirmity.
●● Stakeholders
Answer: Individuals or groups who have a direct interest in the
organization's success and whose needs shape its mission and strategies.
●● Service Line
Answer: Patient care teams organized and coordinated around a set of
similar diseases or patient needs.
●● Health System
Answer: A set of HCOs in several geographic sites, under central
strategic leadership.
,●● Licensed Independent Practitioner (LIP)
Answer: Any practitioner permitted by law and by the [HCO] to provide
care and services, without direction or supervision.
●● Credentials
Answer: Documented evidence of licensure, education, training,
experience, or other qualifications; used to assign specific care
privileges to an LIP consistent with the scope of their license and
assigned clinical responsibilities.
●● Benchmark
Answer: The best performance on a specific measure of which the
organization is aware.
●● Best Practices
Answer: Work processes that have been proven to achieve benchmark.
●● Patient-Centered Care
Answer: Care that is respectful and responsive to individual patient
preferences, needs, and values.
●● Incidence
, Answer: The number of newly diagnosed cases of a disease divided by
the number of persons at risk.
●● Prevalence
Answer: The total number of cases of disease existing in a given
population divided by the total population.
●● Opportunities for Improvement (OFIs)
Answer: Any situation where current performance is inferior to
benchmark.
●● Transformational Culture
Answer: An environment that emphasizes every associate's right to
question or criticize a work-related process or decision and that requires
every leader to respond constructively in a style trusted by any associate.
●● Continuous Improvement
Answer: An ongoing organizational system that identifies improvement
opportunities, ranks them, and systematically analyzes and improves
work processes to make performance closer to benchmark.
●● Evidence-Based Medicine
Answer: The conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best
evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
STUDY RESOURCE
●● Mission
Answer: The central purpose of an organization; its reason for existence.
●● Population Health
Answer: The health of a defined group of individuals, such as a state or
civil division, or insured group, measured by the incidence and
prevalence of disease or infirmity.
●● Stakeholders
Answer: Individuals or groups who have a direct interest in the
organization's success and whose needs shape its mission and strategies.
●● Service Line
Answer: Patient care teams organized and coordinated around a set of
similar diseases or patient needs.
●● Health System
Answer: A set of HCOs in several geographic sites, under central
strategic leadership.
,●● Licensed Independent Practitioner (LIP)
Answer: Any practitioner permitted by law and by the [HCO] to provide
care and services, without direction or supervision.
●● Credentials
Answer: Documented evidence of licensure, education, training,
experience, or other qualifications; used to assign specific care
privileges to an LIP consistent with the scope of their license and
assigned clinical responsibilities.
●● Benchmark
Answer: The best performance on a specific measure of which the
organization is aware.
●● Best Practices
Answer: Work processes that have been proven to achieve benchmark.
●● Patient-Centered Care
Answer: Care that is respectful and responsive to individual patient
preferences, needs, and values.
●● Incidence
, Answer: The number of newly diagnosed cases of a disease divided by
the number of persons at risk.
●● Prevalence
Answer: The total number of cases of disease existing in a given
population divided by the total population.
●● Opportunities for Improvement (OFIs)
Answer: Any situation where current performance is inferior to
benchmark.
●● Transformational Culture
Answer: An environment that emphasizes every associate's right to
question or criticize a work-related process or decision and that requires
every leader to respond constructively in a style trusted by any associate.
●● Continuous Improvement
Answer: An ongoing organizational system that identifies improvement
opportunities, ranks them, and systematically analyzes and improves
work processes to make performance closer to benchmark.
●● Evidence-Based Medicine
Answer: The conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best
evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.
