AACN Ans✓✓✓American Association of College of Nursing
AAMC Ans✓✓✓Association of Medical College
ACA Ans✓✓✓Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Legislation
passed in 2010 to increase access to healthcare for all Americans and
expand Medicaid coverage
accountable vare Ans✓✓✓an accountable care organization is a group
of healthcare providers that give coordinated care and chronic disease
management to improve quality of care
ACHE Ans✓✓✓American College of Healthcare Executives
acuity Ans✓✓✓the intensity of care necessary to meet the needs of a
patient
acuity-adaptable rooms Ans✓✓✓healthcare patient rooms that swing
from acute care to critical care, thus reducing patient transfers
adverse drug events (ADE) Ans✓✓✓generally unwanted, negative
consequences associated with the use of given medications
,ambulatory care Ans✓✓✓constitutes diagnostic and therapeutic
services and treatments provided to the walking (ambulatory) patient. In
a restricted sense, ambulatory care refers to care rendered to patients
who come to physicians' offices, outpatient departments of hospitals,
and health centers to receive care
asclepieion Ans✓✓✓Greek god and healing associated with patient
rooms being oriented to the sun
ASHE Ans✓✓✓American Society for Healthcare Engineering
before-after study Ans✓✓✓a study that measures outcomes by
comparing data collected before a strategy with those collected after a
strategy is put in place. By comparing data, researchers can tell whether
the strategy is effective in improving outcomes
bid Ans✓✓✓a written agreement between an organization to enter into
a contract in which labor, and possible materials are provided and
specified within the document
bid documents Ans✓✓✓written and graphic documents prepared by the
architect used to aid bid preparation. a bid document might include
construction drawings, specifications, instructions to the bidder and a bid
form
bid negotiation phase Ans✓✓✓the phase in which the project team
solicits project fees for construction servies
, big data Ans✓✓✓an evolving term that describes any voluminous
about of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data that has the
potential to be mined for information
board of trustees Ans✓✓✓the governing body of an organization or
corporation that is generally elected by stakeholders to make decisions
and policies
Boolean logic Ans✓✓✓a logic system using operator words to
formulate queries for building search strings. This form of logic is based
on binary logic and can be used to search most full-text search engines
as well as subject directories
bundled payments Ans✓✓✓bundling payment for services that patients
receive across a single episode of care, such as a knee replacement,
designed to improve the quality of care and lower costs
business planning Ans✓✓✓determining the strategies, goals, and
objectives of the business by translating the current and strategic state in
terms of costs and revenues with regard to investments
C. difficile Ans✓✓✓a species of Gram-positive spore-forming bacteria
case study Ans✓✓✓involves in-depth investigation of one or several
cases: individuals, units, or projects. In a case study, researchers use