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Test Bank - Pharmacology for the Primary Care Provider, 5th Edition (Edmunds), Chapter 1-73
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,Test Bank - Pharmacology for the Primary Care Provider, 5th Edition (Edmunds), Chapter 1-73
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,Test Bank - Pharmacology for the Primary Care Provider, 5th Edition (Edmunds), Chapter 1-73
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, Chapter 01: Prescriptive Authority and Role Implementation: Tradition vs. ChangeTest B
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MULTIPLE CHOICE 1
1. Which of the following has influenced an emphasis on primary care education in medicals
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chools?
a. Changes in Medicare reimbursemen 1 1 1
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b. Competition from nonphysicians desiring 1 1 1 1
to meet primary care shortages
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c. The need for monopolistic control in the
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marketplace of primary outpatient care 1 1 1 1
d. The recognition that nonphysicians have
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variable success providing primary care
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ANS: A 1
The Physician Payment Review Commission in 1992 directly increased financial reimburse
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ment to clinicians who provide primary care. Coupled with a shortage of primary care pro
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viders, this incentive led medical schools to place greater emphasis onpreparing primary c
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are physicians. Competition from nonphysicians increased coincidentally as professionals
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from other disciplines stepped up to meet the needs.
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Nonphysicians have had increasing success at providing primary care and have beenshow
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n to be safe and effective.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering (Knowledge)
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2. Which of the following statements is true about the prescribing practices of physicians?
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a. Older physicians tend to prescribe more
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appropriate medications than younger 1 1 1 1
physicians.
b. Antibiotic medications remain in the top 1 1 1 1 1 1
five classifications of medications prescr
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ibed.
c. Most physicians rely on a “therapeutic ar
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mamentarium” that consists of less than 1 1 1 1 1
100 drug preparations per physician.
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d. The dominant form of drug information u
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sed by primary care physicians continuest
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o be that provided by pharmaceutical co
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mpanies.
ANS: D 1
Even though most physicians claim to place little weight on drug advertisements,
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