US Healthcare System Chapter 7 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Ambulatory care - CORRECT ANSWER - Constitutes diagnostic and theraputic services
and treatments provided to the "walking" patient
Community-orientented primary care - CORRECT ANSWER - Incorporates the elements
of good primary care delivery and adds a population based approach to identifying and
addressing community health problems
Complementary and alternative medicine - CORRECT ANSWER - Refers to the broad
domain of all health care resources, other than those intrinsic to biomedicine
Emergent conditions - CORRECT ANSWER - require immediate medical attention; time
delay is harmful to patient; and the disorder is acute and potentially threatening to life or function
Gatekeeping - CORRECT ANSWER - Patients do not visit specialists and are not
admitted to a hospital without being referred by their primary care physician (PCP's)
Hospice - CORRECT ANSWER - comprehensive services for the terminally ill with a
medically determined life expectancy of 6 months or less
Iatrogenic illness or injury - CORRECT ANSWER - Any complication that is caused by
the process of health care
Medical home - CORRECT ANSWER - consists of an interdisciplinary team of physicians
and allied health professionals who partner with patients and their families, taking responsibility
for ongoing patient care using a team approach, technology, and evidence based protocols to
deliver and coordinate care.
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Ambulatory care - CORRECT ANSWER - Constitutes diagnostic and theraputic services
and treatments provided to the "walking" patient
Community-orientented primary care - CORRECT ANSWER - Incorporates the elements
of good primary care delivery and adds a population based approach to identifying and
addressing community health problems
Complementary and alternative medicine - CORRECT ANSWER - Refers to the broad
domain of all health care resources, other than those intrinsic to biomedicine
Emergent conditions - CORRECT ANSWER - require immediate medical attention; time
delay is harmful to patient; and the disorder is acute and potentially threatening to life or function
Gatekeeping - CORRECT ANSWER - Patients do not visit specialists and are not
admitted to a hospital without being referred by their primary care physician (PCP's)
Hospice - CORRECT ANSWER - comprehensive services for the terminally ill with a
medically determined life expectancy of 6 months or less
Iatrogenic illness or injury - CORRECT ANSWER - Any complication that is caused by
the process of health care
Medical home - CORRECT ANSWER - consists of an interdisciplinary team of physicians
and allied health professionals who partner with patients and their families, taking responsibility
for ongoing patient care using a team approach, technology, and evidence based protocols to
deliver and coordinate care.
