CPHQ 2023 Exam Test With Complete Solution

H Appointment - ANSWER Selection for membership in a medical professional staff or to a practitioner panel. H Appraisal - ANSWER Initial evaluation by peers of a practitioner's competency to provide care and services to patients in or for a healthcare origination. Appraisal may include credentialing, privileging, proctoring and appointment. H Benchmark - ANSWER A comparative "best" as baseline for improvement. H Clinical Path - ANSWER A prospective, detailed, strategic treatment regimen, or daily/intermittent protocol for patient care, designed to identify and integrate key activities, interventions, and services for certain patient conditions. Clinical paths are applicable across the continuum of care, e.g., in acute care form pre-admission and pre-operative treatment through the hospital stay to discharge and post-discharge phases of care, including home care. Clinical/critical paths are designed to include clinical performance criteria for specified time periods of intervals, organized by categories of care needs, e.g., diagnostics, treatments, activity, medications, psychosocial, etc. They are useful tools for measuring actual performance.