EDAC Test UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What are the 10 current trends influencing healthcare in the US today? - CORRECT
ANSWER - 1. focus on quality, safety and satisfaction
2. cost and reimbursement
3. environmental safety and sustainability
4. worker safety and caregiver shortages
5. aging population
6. health information and technology
7. healthy living and wellness
8. decentralized care
9. disaster preparedness and ED saturation
10. genomics and predictive health
How can EBD positively influence the challenges represented by these trends? - CORRECT
ANSWER - By designing healing and therapeutic environments that help reduce errors,
improve patient and staff satisfaction, enhance efficiency, and support the latest technological
advances such as HIT and genomics.
What is the definition of evidence-based design? - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT 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?
a. the purchase of the latest diagnostic technology
b. the building doesn't generate any increase of revenue
c. there is little association between investment and outcomes - CORRECT ANSWER -
there is little association between investment and outcomes
What is typically NOT affected by the design of the physical healthcare environment?
a. medical errors
b. adverse reactions to drugs
c. hospital- associated infections - CORRECT ANSWER - adverse drug reactions
What is the primary goal of writing a business case?
a. improve bottom line
b. to encourage the use of the EBD process
c. to demonstrate how facility investments can enhance safety - CORRECT ANSWER - to
demonstrate how facility investments can enhance safety
To make the business case for design innovations, what needs to balanced against ongoing
operating savings and enhanced revenue?
a. one time cost construction
b. improved patient outcomes
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What are the 10 current trends influencing healthcare in the US today? - CORRECT
ANSWER - 1. focus on quality, safety and satisfaction
2. cost and reimbursement
3. environmental safety and sustainability
4. worker safety and caregiver shortages
5. aging population
6. health information and technology
7. healthy living and wellness
8. decentralized care
9. disaster preparedness and ED saturation
10. genomics and predictive health
How can EBD positively influence the challenges represented by these trends? - CORRECT
ANSWER - By designing healing and therapeutic environments that help reduce errors,
improve patient and staff satisfaction, enhance efficiency, and support the latest technological
advances such as HIT and genomics.
What is the definition of evidence-based design? - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT 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?
a. the purchase of the latest diagnostic technology
b. the building doesn't generate any increase of revenue
c. there is little association between investment and outcomes - CORRECT ANSWER -
there is little association between investment and outcomes
What is typically NOT affected by the design of the physical healthcare environment?
a. medical errors
b. adverse reactions to drugs
c. hospital- associated infections - CORRECT ANSWER - adverse drug reactions
What is the primary goal of writing a business case?
a. improve bottom line
b. to encourage the use of the EBD process
c. to demonstrate how facility investments can enhance safety - CORRECT ANSWER - to
demonstrate how facility investments can enhance safety
To make the business case for design innovations, what needs to balanced against ongoing
operating savings and enhanced revenue?
a. one time cost construction
b. improved patient outcomes
