EDAC Study Guide 1 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Answers | A+ Score
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List four major stakeholders in a healthcare facility and the purpose that
facility serves for each of them. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"1Patients and families -
healing environment
2Staff - work environment
3Providers of healthcare - business environment
4Community and organization - cultural environment
"
Define evidence-based design. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔EBD is the process of
basing decisions about the built environment on credible research to
achieve the best possible outcomes
List the seven major trends facing healthcare today. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"1.
Public focus on quality and safety
2. Reimbursement challenges
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,3. Aging population and caregiver shortages
4. Health information technology
5. Genomics and technology
6. Emergency room saturation and disaster preparedness
7. Sustainable healthcare
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EBD can positively influence the current trends and challenges healthcare
faces by... - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"- reducing medical errors and therefore cost of
care
- improving satisfaction and efficiency of caregivers thus helping employee
recruitment and retention
- designing a physical environment supportive of new IT and work
processes
- providing innovative, adaptable designs maximizing disaster response
"
HAI is a ______(a)_______ and is now more generically referred to as
______(b)______. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"a. Hospital-Acquired Infection
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, b. Healthcare-Associated Infection
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An HAI is defined as... - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔...an infection that a patient
acquires during the course of receiving treatment for another condition
within a healthcare setting.
List the two major factors that increased healthcare costs in the US ares
associated with. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"1. Increased life expectancy
2. Cost of new medical technology
"
"Ch1Q1: Evidence-based design is the process of basing decisions about
_______ on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes.
a. patient outcomes
b. the built environment
c. nursing staff-to-patient ratios" - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔b. the built environment
"Ch1Q2: Which of the following clinical and safety outcomes are not
typically affected by the design of the physical health environment?
a. medical errors
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Questions and Answers | A+ Score
Assured
List four major stakeholders in a healthcare facility and the purpose that
facility serves for each of them. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"1Patients and families -
healing environment
2Staff - work environment
3Providers of healthcare - business environment
4Community and organization - cultural environment
"
Define evidence-based design. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔EBD is the process of
basing decisions about the built environment on credible research to
achieve the best possible outcomes
List the seven major trends facing healthcare today. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"1.
Public focus on quality and safety
2. Reimbursement challenges
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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,3. Aging population and caregiver shortages
4. Health information technology
5. Genomics and technology
6. Emergency room saturation and disaster preparedness
7. Sustainable healthcare
"
EBD can positively influence the current trends and challenges healthcare
faces by... - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"- reducing medical errors and therefore cost of
care
- improving satisfaction and efficiency of caregivers thus helping employee
recruitment and retention
- designing a physical environment supportive of new IT and work
processes
- providing innovative, adaptable designs maximizing disaster response
"
HAI is a ______(a)_______ and is now more generically referred to as
______(b)______. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"a. Hospital-Acquired Infection
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, b. Healthcare-Associated Infection
"
An HAI is defined as... - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔...an infection that a patient
acquires during the course of receiving treatment for another condition
within a healthcare setting.
List the two major factors that increased healthcare costs in the US ares
associated with. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"1. Increased life expectancy
2. Cost of new medical technology
"
"Ch1Q1: Evidence-based design is the process of basing decisions about
_______ on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes.
a. patient outcomes
b. the built environment
c. nursing staff-to-patient ratios" - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔b. the built environment
"Ch1Q2: Which of the following clinical and safety outcomes are not
typically affected by the design of the physical health environment?
a. medical errors
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