NCCT Practice Test 2023 –solved

Right and Wrong conduct is known as - Answer- ethics The most common type of medical tort liability is - Answer- negligence A person being sued is called the - Answer- defendant The withdrawal of a physician from the care of a patient without reasonable notice of such discharge from the case by the patient is - Answer- abandonment An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another is - Answer- assault The health worker is protected by law if it can be determined that he or she acted reasonable as compared with fellow workers. This is called - Answer- reasonable care Negligence by a professional person is called - Answer- malpractice An act that violates criminal law is called - Answer- crime The breaking of a law, promise, or duty is called - Answer- breach The ability to see things from another person's point of view is - Answer- empathy The time established for filing law suits is - Answer- statute of limitations A writ that commands a witness to appear at a trial or other proceeding and to give testimony is a - Answer- subpoena A wrong committed against another person or the person's property is a - Answer- tort Holding or detaining a person against his will is - Answer- false imprisonment A violation of a person's right not to have his or her name, photograph, or private affairs exposed of made public without giving consent is - Answer- invasion of privacy A major crime for which greater punishment is imposed other than a misdemeanor is - Answer- felony One who institutes a lawsuit is - Answer- plaintiff A legal statement of how an individual's property is to be distributed after death is - Answer- will Information given by a patient to medical personnel which cannot be disclosed without consent of the person who gave it is - Answer- privileged communication A rule of conduct made by a government body is - Answer- law Failure to do something that a reasonable person would do under ordinary circumstances that ends up causing harm to another person or a person's property is - Answer- negligence Permission granted by a person voluntarily and in his right mind is - Answer- consent Injuring the name and reputation of another person by making false statements to a third person is - Answer- defamation An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of some definite thing is - Answer- contract Lack of physical or mental fitness is known as - Answer- incompetence The final decision of a court in an action or suit is - Answer- judgment Responsibility of an employer for the acts of an employee is - Answer- libel A Latin term signifying that a person is not of sound mind is - Answer- non compos mentis A person who is no longer under the care, custody, or supervision of a parent is called - Answer- emancipated minor An impartial panel established to listen to and investigate patient's complaints about medical care of excessive fees is called a what committee - Answer- medical grievance Latin for "things done; deeds", the facts and circumstances attendant to the act in question would be called - Answer- res gestae Testimony of a witness under oath and written down before trial for possible use when the case comes to trial is - Answer- deposition A statute that enforces private right and liabilities, as differentiated from criminal law is called a - Answer- civil law Violation or omission of a legal or moral duty is called - Answer- breach of duty A deliberate physical attack upon a person is called - Answer- battery Latin for "he who acts through another acts for himself: is called - Answer- qui facit per alium facit per se The branch of study of moral issues, questions, and problems arising in the practice of medicine and in biomedical research is called - Answer- bioethics A statement given concerning some scientific, technical, or professional matter by an expert, such as physician is called - Answer- expert testimony A patient's failure to act prudently and reasonably, or doing that which a reasonable person would not do under similar circumstances in called - Answer- contributory negligence Consent to treatment based on a full understanding of all possible risks of unpreventable results of that treatment is called - Answer- assumption of risk Conduct, courtesy, and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical professionals are known as - Answer- medical etiquette An intentional perversion of truth of the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or surrender a legal right is called - Answer- fraud To interrupt or discontinue a suit temporarily with the intention of resumption at a later date, or to ask for a continuance is called a - Answer- suspension Latin for "things decided"- that is, a matter already decided by judicial authority is called - Answer- res judicata That which is natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new independent cause, produces an event, and without which the injury would not have occurred is called - Answer- proximate cause The presumption or inference of negligence when an accident is otherwise unable to be explained in terms of ordinary and known experience is called - Answer- res ipsa loquitur Failure to achieve an agreed upon result, even when the highest degree of skill has been used, is called - Answer- breach of contract What license must a physician have to dispense, prescribe or administer controlled substances - Answer- narcotic Unauthorized disclosure of information regarding any patient to a third party may result in - Answer- invasion of privacy Medical research is often published in medical journals that are evaluated by members of the medial community through a process known as - Answer- peer review Under the Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982, Peer Review Organizations are responsible for the review of appropriateness and necessity of putting a patient into the hospital by a process known as what review - Answer- admissions A fraudulent signature is called - Answer- forgery These are defined as what are right and wrong - Answer- ethics Which one of the following might involve a decision based upon bioethics - Answer- the use of fetal tissue transplantation for research A physician must have the patient's permission in writing to reveal any confidential information except for - Answer- gunshot wound It is ? to deny treatment to HIV infected patients - Answer- unethical What is a federal regulation that requires health care professional to protect the privacy and confidentiality of patients' health information - Answer- HIPAA In the health care field an acronym HIPAA stand for - Answer- health insurance portability and accountability act The statement "A physician shall respect the law" is part of the - Answer- AMA code of ethics Profession negligence is also called - Answer- medical malpractice A system whereby large quantities of data can be accessed, searched, sorted, and arranged very rapidly by computer is called a what system - Answer- database management A computer monitor, hard drive, and printer are known as - Answer- hardware The term for the technology that tells s computer what to do is known as the - Answer- software The computer hey DEL command means - Answer- delete The computers' directional arrow keys - Answer- move the cursor, right, left, up or down Referring to computers, the term "user friendly" refers to - Answer- how easy the system is to operate