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, Chapter 01: Prescriptive Authority and Role Implementation: Tradition vs. Change
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Test Bank
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MULTIPLE CHOICE f
1. Which of the following has influenced an emphasis on primary care education in medicalsch
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ools?
a. Changes in Medicare reimbursement f f f f
methods recommended in 1992 f f f
b. Competition from nonphysicians desiringt f f f f
o 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 f f f f
d. The recognition that nonphysicians have
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variable success providing primary care f f f f
ANS: A f
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 provid
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ers, this incentive led medical schools to place greater emphasis onpreparing primary care p
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hysicians. Competition from nonphysicians increased coincidentally as professionals from o
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ther disciplines stepped up to meet the needs.
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Nonphysicians have had increasing success at providing primary care and have beenshown t
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o 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 f f f f
physicians.
b. Antibiotic medications remain in the topf f f f f f f
ive classifications of medications prescri
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bed.
c. Most physicians rely on a “therapeutic ar
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mamentarium” that consists of less than f f f f f
100 drug preparations per physician.
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d. The dominant form of drug information us
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ed by primary care physicians continuesto
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be that provided by pharmaceutical compa
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nies.
ANS: D f
Even though most physicians claim to place little weight on drug advertisements,
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, Chapter 01: Prescriptive Authority and Role Implementation: Tradition vs. Change
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Test Bank
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MULTIPLE CHOICE f
1. Which of the following has influenced an emphasis on primary care education in medicalsch
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ools?
a. Changes in Medicare reimbursement f f f f
methods recommended in 1992 f f f
b. Competition from nonphysicians desiringt f f f f
o meet primary care shortages
f f f f
c. The need for monopolistic control in the
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marketplace of primary outpatient care f f f f
d. The recognition that nonphysicians have
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variable success providing primary care f f f f
ANS: A f
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 provid
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ers, this incentive led medical schools to place greater emphasis onpreparing primary care p
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hysicians. Competition from nonphysicians increased coincidentally as professionals from o
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ther disciplines stepped up to meet the needs.
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Nonphysicians have had increasing success at providing primary care and have beenshown t
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o be safe and effective.
f f f f
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering (Knowledge)
f f f REF: 2 f
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 f f f f
physicians.
b. Antibiotic medications remain in the topf f f f f f f
ive classifications of medications prescri
f f f f
bed.
c. Most physicians rely on a “therapeutic ar
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mamentarium” that consists of less than f f f f f
100 drug preparations per physician.
f f f f
d. The dominant form of drug information us
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ed by primary care physicians continuesto
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be that provided by pharmaceutical compa
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nies.
ANS: D f
Even though most physicians claim to place little weight on drug advertisements,
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