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what is an important difference between a clinic and a hospital? - ✔✔a clinic cant
monitor patients
what is the primary responsibility of a physician? - ✔✔diagnose and prescribe
professional conduct is behavior and communication that? - ✔✔inspires confidence and
trust
a patient who is scheduled for a surgery must do what? - ✔✔sign a consent form
HIPAA specifies that patient information can only be shared with whom? - ✔✔people
with a legitimate interest in the patient's care
to organize and process - ✔✔administrative
immediate or urgent care for patients who need immediate assistance for recently
developed diagnosis - ✔✔acute care
at least a 24 hr stay in a facility - ✔✔admission
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, when a physician is permitter to admit her patients to a particular hospital -
✔✔admitting privilages
contain medical instructions in case that pateint cannot make or communicate decisions;
also called a living will - ✔✔advance directives
the physician who has overall responsibility for a hospitalized patient - ✔✔attending
physician
transmission of information - ✔✔communication
part of the process of making sure communications are accuratley transmitted and
received - ✔✔confirmation
a patient who is a danger to other patients or staff, or seriously disrupts delivery of
patient care - ✔✔difficult patient
a type of care delivered in response to an immediate health care need - ✔✔emergent
care
system that is responsible for responding to community medical emergencies and
treating and transporting injured or sick individuals to the appropriate health care
system; also called the 911 system - ✔✔EMS
a series of regulations governing how and by whom patient information can be used -
✔✔HIPAA
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