Systems thinking examines the actual physical structures of healthcare organizations to
achieve two goal: improve patient care and safety. - Answers FALSE
A healthcare navigator provides nursing, social services and disability assistance to patients
who are Medicaid and Medicare eligible. - Answers FALSE
The Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (HVBPP) is a CMS initiative that rewards acute-
care hospitals with incentive payments for the quality of care they provide to people with
Medicare, not just the quantity of procedures performed. - Answers TRUE
Most long-term care services focus on medical care rather than assistance with the basic
personal tasks of everyday life. - Answers FALSE
Systems thinking focuses on holistic relationship between the structure of system and the
human behavior that interacts with structure. - Answers TRUE
Pay for performance (P4P) and value-based purchasing (VBP) are terms that describe
healthcare payment systems that reward healthcare providers for their efficiency by providing
higher quality care for less cost. - Answers TRUE
Which of the following best describes care coordinates/ patient navigators? - Answers
Individuals who combine nursing, social work, and disability assistance to help those who are
Medicare and Medicaid eligible and suffer from chronic conditions.
Genetic testing is conducted on populations based on age, sex, or other factors to determine
disease risk or carrier status. - Answers TRUE
Medical ethics focuses on provider decisions about treatment; bioethics focuses on ethical
issues in medical technology such as cloning. - Answers TRUE
The U.S. organ transplant system is managed by UNOS and the CDC. - Answers FALSE
Social justice's healthcare goal is to increase access and resources for marginalized groups
who have face discrimination. - Answers TRUE
Therapeutic cloning produces cloned species such as Dolly the sheep. - Answers FALSE
Autonomy, which is defined as self-rule, is an important concept to health care because it is
applied to informed consent. - Answers TRUE
The collegial model assumes that trust exists between the patient and the doctor and that
decision-making is an equal effort. - Answers TRUE
Physician-assisted death refers to the physician injecting the lethal medication. - Answers
FALSE