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TEST 1
Ch 1
1. A small rural hospital is part of an accountable care organization and it designated
as a level 1 aco. What is part of this designation
- Bonuses based on achievement on benchmarks
2. What was an important finding of the advisory board survey of 2014 about primary
care preferences of patients
- Ease of access
3. Which assessment of care providers are performed as part of the value-based
purchasing initiative
- Appraising costs per case of care for medicare patients
- Assessment patient satisfaction with hospital care
- Monitoring mortality rates of all patients with pneumonia
Ch2
1. To reduce adverse events associated with care transitions, the centers for medicare
and Medicaid services have implemented which policy
- Reduction of payments for patient readmitted within 30 days after discharge
2. According to naylors transitional care model, which interventions has resulted in
lower costs and fewer re-hospitalizations in high risk older patients (p. 5)
- Coordination of post hospital care by advanced practice nurses
- Post hospital coordinated care by apns
- Weekly apn visit
- Telephone availability every day
- Coordinated care with the patients primary care physician
3. What is the top contributing factor to ADE’s and rehospitalizations
- Communication
4. What is the newest vital sign tool
- Involves having patients read and interpret a nutrition label
5. What tools are used to assess health literacy
- Rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine (realm) TOOL
o Evaluates word recognition
- Test of functional health literacy in adults (tofhla)
, - Newest vital sign tool
o Ability to calculate data along with general knowledge about health
6. What recommendations does the ahrq give to improve health literacy
- Using clear, simple to understand language
- Highlighting 3-5 key points
- Using pictures or visual tools
- Repeating the instructions
- Using the teach back method
Chapter 3
1. What is the purpose of level 1 research
- Describe pertinent characteristics of the phenomenon of interest
2. What is the purpose of level 2 research
- Establish associations or differences between variables
3. What is the purpose of level 3 research
- Identify the mechanistic relationships among characterstic variables associated with
the phenomenon of interest
4. What is level 4 research
- Demonstrate the effectiveness of an intervention or treatment
5. What is a type I error in research
- Sample is insufficiently representative of a population, therefore investigator ay
report false results and may erroneously conclude that the research hypothesis is
spported
6. What is a type II error in research
- Failure to detect significant associations or differences when they are present
7. How can the researcher avoid errors
- By conducting a power analysis
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