CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE STATISTICS
Questions with Correct Solutions
Question:
1. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Answer:
Part of the HHS, tries to make healthcare safer; of higher quality; more accessible, equitable,
and affordable. Publishes research-based fact sheets for patients and consumers on a variety
of issues such as patient safety and reducing errors when a patient is in the hospital.
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2. Ambulatory Care Facility
Answer:
a healthcare facility that provides preventative or corrective healthcare services on a
nonresident basis in a provider's office, clinic setting, or outpatient setting.
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3. Census
Answer:
a survey of the population.
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4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc)
Answer:
a group of federal agencies that oversees health promotion and disease control and
prevention activities in the US.
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5. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Answer:
A division of HHS that is responsible for administering the Medicare program and the federal
portion of the Medicaid program.
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6. Descriptive statistics
Answer:
organizes and describe the features of data in a study; describes what the data show about
the characteristics of a group or population.
, Question:
7. Encounter
Answer:
the direct personal contact between a patient and a physician or other person authorized by
state licensure law and, if applicable, by medical staff bylaws to order or furnish healthcare
services for the diagnosis or treatment of the patient.
Question:
8. Home health (HH)
Answer:
An umbrella term that refers to the medical and nonmedical services provided to patients and
their families in their places of residence
Question:
9. Hospice
Answer:
An interdisciplinary program of palliative care and supportive services that addresses the
physical, spiritual, social, and economic needs of terminally ill patients and their families
Question:
10. Inferential Statistics
Answer:
help organizations make inferences or decisions about a larger group of data by drawing
conclusions from small group of the population.
Question:
11. Inpatient
Answer:
A patient who is provided with room, board, and continuous general nursing services in an
area of an acute care facility where patients generally stay at least overnight
Question:
12. Inpatient Census
Answer:
count of patients present at a specific time and place such as a hospital; primary source of
data.
Question:
13. Managed Care Organization (MCO)
Questions with Correct Solutions
Question:
1. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Answer:
Part of the HHS, tries to make healthcare safer; of higher quality; more accessible, equitable,
and affordable. Publishes research-based fact sheets for patients and consumers on a variety
of issues such as patient safety and reducing errors when a patient is in the hospital.
Question:
2. Ambulatory Care Facility
Answer:
a healthcare facility that provides preventative or corrective healthcare services on a
nonresident basis in a provider's office, clinic setting, or outpatient setting.
Question:
3. Census
Answer:
a survey of the population.
Question:
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc)
Answer:
a group of federal agencies that oversees health promotion and disease control and
prevention activities in the US.
Question:
5. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Answer:
A division of HHS that is responsible for administering the Medicare program and the federal
portion of the Medicaid program.
Question:
6. Descriptive statistics
Answer:
organizes and describe the features of data in a study; describes what the data show about
the characteristics of a group or population.
, Question:
7. Encounter
Answer:
the direct personal contact between a patient and a physician or other person authorized by
state licensure law and, if applicable, by medical staff bylaws to order or furnish healthcare
services for the diagnosis or treatment of the patient.
Question:
8. Home health (HH)
Answer:
An umbrella term that refers to the medical and nonmedical services provided to patients and
their families in their places of residence
Question:
9. Hospice
Answer:
An interdisciplinary program of palliative care and supportive services that addresses the
physical, spiritual, social, and economic needs of terminally ill patients and their families
Question:
10. Inferential Statistics
Answer:
help organizations make inferences or decisions about a larger group of data by drawing
conclusions from small group of the population.
Question:
11. Inpatient
Answer:
A patient who is provided with room, board, and continuous general nursing services in an
area of an acute care facility where patients generally stay at least overnight
Question:
12. Inpatient Census
Answer:
count of patients present at a specific time and place such as a hospital; primary source of
data.
Question:
13. Managed Care Organization (MCO)
