HSA 2117 FINAL EXAM REVIEW UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

HSA 2117 FINAL EXAM REVIEW UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. What are the three criteria for evaluating health care systems?
Answer:
Quality, equity, efficiency

Question:
2. The probability of dying between birth and exactly one year of age is which of the following?
Answer:
Infant mortality rate

Question:
3. Which of the following terms refers to a measure of whether health care produced desired results?
Answer:
Clinical effectiveness

Question:
4. Which of the following refers to the production of a given level of health care goods and services at the
minimum cost?
Answer:
Productive efficiency

Question:
5. Which of the following terms refers to the fair allocation of benefits and burdens of health care?
Answer:
Equity of health care

Question:
6. Which of the following terms refers to preventing accidental injury to patients in a health care setting?
Answer:
Patient safety

Question:
7. Which of the following is true of health care-associated (nosocomial) infections?
Answer:
They occur at least 72 hours after hospital admission

Question:
8. Which organization facilitates quality data reporting for individual hospitals and health systems?
Answer:
National Quality Forum

, Question:
9. How are working age people who do not have employer-sponsored health insurance impacted?
Answer:
Inequitable access to health care

Question:
10. What is true of an ideal health information exchange (HIE) (electronic health information network)?
Answer:
All of the above

Question:
11. Which of the following are reasons for the difficulty of implementing HIE?
Answer:
All of the above

Question:
12. Which of the following would be included under "process" in the Donabedian model?
Answer:
Diagnosing a medical condition

Question:
13. Globally in 2016, the average life expectancy for women was 83.4. What was the life expectancy of
women in the U.S.?
Answer:
81.1

Question:
14. Globally in 2016, the average life expectancy for men was 78.1. What was the life expectancy of men
in the U.S.?
Answer:
76.1

Question:
15. In 2016, the average infant mortality rate was 3.9 deaths/1,000 live births. What was the U.S. infant
mortality rate?
Answer:
5.9

Question:
16. What country was first to apply on a large scale Deming's quality assurance methods after World War
II?
Answer:
Japan

Question:
17. Which of the following is the oldest and largest health care accrediting organization in the United
States?