WGU D514 CORE MAIN EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Forecasting - ✔✔Forecasting is the process of predicting outcomes and needs to
create systems and models with the highest financial and operational safety and
efficiency; it can be used to determine the potential use of services and patient demand,
or to expand service lines and markets.
✔✔Health disparities - ✔✔Health disparities are defined as "differences in the
incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases;" they are frequently seen in
subpopulations based on socioeconomic status, geography, race, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, or special needs.
✔✔Justice - ✔✔in research, it pertains to the fair selection of research participants.
Justice is the ideal distribution of risks and benefits when conducting clinical research
and recruiting volunteer research participants to participate in clinical trials. One
example of the principle of justice seen in the United States is when citizens turn 65
years of age, they are eligible for Medicare, no matter who they are or their
socioeconomic level.
✔✔Market segmentation - ✔✔Market or population segmentation is used to divide the
defined community, group, or cohort into aggregate domains of shared traits. The intent
is to optimally understand specific needs and further customize care and services.
✔✔Measurement and decision support - ✔✔Measurement is used to monitor quality
improvement in systems and processes, analyze current trends, evaluate performance,
and—when results are gathered—to place accountability. New knowledge is built on
research. Decision support provides an information platform to evaluate leading,
lagging, and real-time performance measures.
✔✔Measuring effectiveness of treatments - ✔✔Statistics are necessary to measure and
compare treatment outcomes. Statistically analyzing the effectiveness of treatments is
the optimal method to determine validity for adoption.
, ✔✔Multiple regression - ✔✔The purpose of multiple regression is to determine the
relationship between several independent or predictor variables and a dependent
variable.
✔✔Needs assessment - ✔✔A needs assessment is the process of collecting and
analyzing information about a specific population, enterprise, or cohort to gain
stakeholder insight into cultural engagement. It may also identify coalition strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, issues, available resources, and constraints or barriers. The
needs assessment supports clear direction for decisions involving development of a
specific health initiative or program.
✔✔Outcome evaluation - ✔✔An outcome evaluation focuses on the end result of a
specific program or initiative, generally clinically measured by improvements in
morbidity, mortality, or vital measures of symptoms, signs, or physiologic indicators.
✔✔Plagiarism Avoidance - ✔✔Plagiarism is the uncredited use of someone else's
words or ideas. A charge of plagiarism to a researcher may have serious
consequences, including loss of a job or expulsion from a university, and will result in
loss of standing in the professional community.
✔✔Research - ✔✔Research can inform decisions regarding the development and
efficacy of new processes, systems, technologies, environments, and organizational
structures to support operations.
✔✔Quality improvement - ✔✔Quality improvement is measured internally and
externally, using various benchmarks and indicators. These indicators are quantified by
proportions, percentages, ratios, means, medians, and counts to measure processes,
perspectives, and outcomes aligned with a certain initiative or decision.
✔✔Transaction systems - ✔✔Divide data according to individual operations. The data
stored by transaction systems is granular and based on specialized systems.
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False: Healthcare prices have historically driven health services
spending growth, but utilization is now the primary driver of health services spending.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False: Healthcare consumers are spending more money out of
pocket for their healthcare services than any time since the 1970s.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False. Public and private spending have both grown
substantially, but private spending has grown much faster.
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False. Health spending growth is now more on pace with
economic growth.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Forecasting - ✔✔Forecasting is the process of predicting outcomes and needs to
create systems and models with the highest financial and operational safety and
efficiency; it can be used to determine the potential use of services and patient demand,
or to expand service lines and markets.
✔✔Health disparities - ✔✔Health disparities are defined as "differences in the
incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases;" they are frequently seen in
subpopulations based on socioeconomic status, geography, race, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, or special needs.
✔✔Justice - ✔✔in research, it pertains to the fair selection of research participants.
Justice is the ideal distribution of risks and benefits when conducting clinical research
and recruiting volunteer research participants to participate in clinical trials. One
example of the principle of justice seen in the United States is when citizens turn 65
years of age, they are eligible for Medicare, no matter who they are or their
socioeconomic level.
✔✔Market segmentation - ✔✔Market or population segmentation is used to divide the
defined community, group, or cohort into aggregate domains of shared traits. The intent
is to optimally understand specific needs and further customize care and services.
✔✔Measurement and decision support - ✔✔Measurement is used to monitor quality
improvement in systems and processes, analyze current trends, evaluate performance,
and—when results are gathered—to place accountability. New knowledge is built on
research. Decision support provides an information platform to evaluate leading,
lagging, and real-time performance measures.
✔✔Measuring effectiveness of treatments - ✔✔Statistics are necessary to measure and
compare treatment outcomes. Statistically analyzing the effectiveness of treatments is
the optimal method to determine validity for adoption.
, ✔✔Multiple regression - ✔✔The purpose of multiple regression is to determine the
relationship between several independent or predictor variables and a dependent
variable.
✔✔Needs assessment - ✔✔A needs assessment is the process of collecting and
analyzing information about a specific population, enterprise, or cohort to gain
stakeholder insight into cultural engagement. It may also identify coalition strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, issues, available resources, and constraints or barriers. The
needs assessment supports clear direction for decisions involving development of a
specific health initiative or program.
✔✔Outcome evaluation - ✔✔An outcome evaluation focuses on the end result of a
specific program or initiative, generally clinically measured by improvements in
morbidity, mortality, or vital measures of symptoms, signs, or physiologic indicators.
✔✔Plagiarism Avoidance - ✔✔Plagiarism is the uncredited use of someone else's
words or ideas. A charge of plagiarism to a researcher may have serious
consequences, including loss of a job or expulsion from a university, and will result in
loss of standing in the professional community.
✔✔Research - ✔✔Research can inform decisions regarding the development and
efficacy of new processes, systems, technologies, environments, and organizational
structures to support operations.
✔✔Quality improvement - ✔✔Quality improvement is measured internally and
externally, using various benchmarks and indicators. These indicators are quantified by
proportions, percentages, ratios, means, medians, and counts to measure processes,
perspectives, and outcomes aligned with a certain initiative or decision.
✔✔Transaction systems - ✔✔Divide data according to individual operations. The data
stored by transaction systems is granular and based on specialized systems.
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False: Healthcare prices have historically driven health services
spending growth, but utilization is now the primary driver of health services spending.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False: Healthcare consumers are spending more money out of
pocket for their healthcare services than any time since the 1970s.
✔✔False - ✔✔True or False. Public and private spending have both grown
substantially, but private spending has grown much faster.
✔✔True - ✔✔True or False. Health spending growth is now more on pace with
economic growth.
