EDAC Study Guide 1 Exam 2025
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
List four major stakeholders in a healthcare facility and the purpose that facility serves
for each of them. - ✔✔"1Patients and families - healing environment
2Staff - work environment
3Providers of healthcare - business environment
4Community and organization - cultural environment
"
Define evidence-based design. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔"1. Public focus on quality and
safety
2. Reimbursement challenges
3. Aging population and caregiver shortages
4. Health information technology
5. Genomics and technology
6. Emergency room saturation and disaster preparedness
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, 7. Sustainable healthcare
"
EBD can positively influence the current trends and challenges healthcare faces by... -
✔✔"- 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)______. -
✔✔"a. Hospital-Acquired Infection
b. Healthcare-Associated Infection
"
An HAI is defined as... - ✔✔...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.
- ✔✔"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
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
List four major stakeholders in a healthcare facility and the purpose that facility serves
for each of them. - ✔✔"1Patients and families - healing environment
2Staff - work environment
3Providers of healthcare - business environment
4Community and organization - cultural environment
"
Define evidence-based design. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔"1. Public focus on quality and
safety
2. Reimbursement challenges
3. Aging population and caregiver shortages
4. Health information technology
5. Genomics and technology
6. Emergency room saturation and disaster preparedness
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, 7. Sustainable healthcare
"
EBD can positively influence the current trends and challenges healthcare faces by... -
✔✔"- 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)______. -
✔✔"a. Hospital-Acquired Infection
b. Healthcare-Associated Infection
"
An HAI is defined as... - ✔✔...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.
- ✔✔"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
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