In Healthy People 2020, which of the following does NOT represent the aims of the
program?
a) Increase quality and years of healthy life
b) Prevent and reduce diseases and disorders
c) Promote pharmaceutical change
d) Promote healthy behaviors
e) Eliminate health disparities - ANSWERc
What are the goals of the Triple Aim?
a) Reducing medical error, improving public health, preventing communicable disease
b) Patient satisfaction, improving public health, reducing healthcare costs
c) Patient satisfaction, reducing medical error, preventing communicable disease
d) Reducing healthcare costs, improving public health, reducing medical error -
ANSWERb
The act that was established to protect healthcare consumers in hospitals. (1973) -
ANSWERPatient Bill of Rights
An organization that was the driving force for the concept of private practice in medicine
and standardized medical education - ANSWERAmerican Medical Association
An organization that issued standards in 2002 to increase consumer awareness by
requiring hospitals to inform patients if their results were not consistent with typical
results - ANSWERJoint Commission
Which of the following procedures/activities would be considered as a best example of
secondary prevention?
a) Prescribing medications for hypertension
b) Mammograms
c) Immunizations - ANSWERb
What is the goal of tertiary prevention?
a) Prevent the progression of disease
b) Reduce the impact of established disease
c) Avoid the development of disease
d) Identify disease at an early stage - ANSWERb
Which of the following is the definition for the Iron Triangle of health care?