EDAC TEST BANK QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS FULL REVIEW
●● What expectations are important to clarify among the members of
the team, and why?
Answer: Expectations should be clear regarding how long team
members should participate, their decision-making authority and
process, and project deliverable responsibilities. Establishing and
managing expectations will go a long way toward keeping the lines of
communication open and fostering a collaborative working environment.
●● What can staff and front line managers contribute to the
interdisciplinary project team?
Answer: Ideas derived from hands-on experience
●● What are the 10 current trends influencing healthcare in the United
States?
Answer: 1. Focus on quality, safety, and satisfaction.
2. Healthcare cost and reimbursement.
3. Environmental safety and sustainability.
4. Healthcare worker safety and caregiver shortages.
5. Aging population.
6. Health information and emerging technology.
,7. Healthy living and wellness.
8. Decentralized healthcare, ambulatory care, and care at home.
9. Disaster preparedness and emergency department saturation.
10. Genomics and predictive health.
●● How can EBD positively influence the challenges represented by the
current trends?
Answer: EBD can positively influence these challenges by designing
healing and therapeutic environments that help reduce errors, improve
patient ad staff satisfaction, enhance efficiency and support the latest
technological advances such as HIT and genomics.
●● What is the definition of evidence-based design?
Answer: The process of basing decisions about the built environment on
credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes.
●● What are the eight steps of the EBD process?
Answer: 1. Define evidence-based goals and objectives
2. Find sources for relevant evidence.
3. Critically interpret relevant evidence.
4. Create and innovate EBD concepts.
5. Develop a hypothesis.
6. Collect baseline performance measures.
,7. Monitor implementation of design and construction.
8. Measure post-occupancy performance results.
●● Why has the construction of a new building been viewed as a sunk
cost?
Answer: There is little association between investment and outcomes.
●● Which one of the following clinical and safety outcomes are
typically NOT affected by the design of the physical healthcare
environment?
Answer: Adverse Reactions to drugs.
●● What is the primary goal of writing a business case?
Answer: to demonstrate how facility investments can enhance safety
●● To make the business case for design innovations, what needs to be
balanced against ongoing operation savings and enhanced revenue?
Answer: one-time construction cost.
●● What are the six typical classifications for inpatient hospitals?
Answer: 1. ownership
2. length of stay
3. type of service
, 4. public access
5. location
6. size
●● What are the five other types of inpatient hospitals?
Answer: 1. teaching or academic hospitals
2. critical access hospitals
3. doctor-owned specialty hospitals
4. healthcare systems
5. healthcare networks
●● Name five types of hospital-based outpatient services.
Answer: clinical services
surgical services
women's health centers
emergency services
home healthcare centers
●● Name five types of freestanding facilities.
Answer: walk-in clinics
urgent-care centers and emergicenters
surgicenters
VERIFIED ANSWERS FULL REVIEW
●● What expectations are important to clarify among the members of
the team, and why?
Answer: Expectations should be clear regarding how long team
members should participate, their decision-making authority and
process, and project deliverable responsibilities. Establishing and
managing expectations will go a long way toward keeping the lines of
communication open and fostering a collaborative working environment.
●● What can staff and front line managers contribute to the
interdisciplinary project team?
Answer: Ideas derived from hands-on experience
●● What are the 10 current trends influencing healthcare in the United
States?
Answer: 1. Focus on quality, safety, and satisfaction.
2. Healthcare cost and reimbursement.
3. Environmental safety and sustainability.
4. Healthcare worker safety and caregiver shortages.
5. Aging population.
6. Health information and emerging technology.
,7. Healthy living and wellness.
8. Decentralized healthcare, ambulatory care, and care at home.
9. Disaster preparedness and emergency department saturation.
10. Genomics and predictive health.
●● How can EBD positively influence the challenges represented by the
current trends?
Answer: EBD can positively influence these challenges by designing
healing and therapeutic environments that help reduce errors, improve
patient ad staff satisfaction, enhance efficiency and support the latest
technological advances such as HIT and genomics.
●● What is the definition of evidence-based design?
Answer: The process of basing decisions about the built environment on
credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes.
●● What are the eight steps of the EBD process?
Answer: 1. Define evidence-based goals and objectives
2. Find sources for relevant evidence.
3. Critically interpret relevant evidence.
4. Create and innovate EBD concepts.
5. Develop a hypothesis.
6. Collect baseline performance measures.
,7. Monitor implementation of design and construction.
8. Measure post-occupancy performance results.
●● Why has the construction of a new building been viewed as a sunk
cost?
Answer: There is little association between investment and outcomes.
●● Which one of the following clinical and safety outcomes are
typically NOT affected by the design of the physical healthcare
environment?
Answer: Adverse Reactions to drugs.
●● What is the primary goal of writing a business case?
Answer: to demonstrate how facility investments can enhance safety
●● To make the business case for design innovations, what needs to be
balanced against ongoing operation savings and enhanced revenue?
Answer: one-time construction cost.
●● What are the six typical classifications for inpatient hospitals?
Answer: 1. ownership
2. length of stay
3. type of service
, 4. public access
5. location
6. size
●● What are the five other types of inpatient hospitals?
Answer: 1. teaching or academic hospitals
2. critical access hospitals
3. doctor-owned specialty hospitals
4. healthcare systems
5. healthcare networks
●● Name five types of hospital-based outpatient services.
Answer: clinical services
surgical services
women's health centers
emergency services
home healthcare centers
●● Name five types of freestanding facilities.
Answer: walk-in clinics
urgent-care centers and emergicenters
surgicenters
