EDAC Test Questions with Correct
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What are the 10 current trends influencing healthcare in the US today? - ✔✔1. focus on
quality, safety and satisfaction
2. cost and reimbursement
3. environmental safety and sustainability
4. worker safety and caregiver shortages
5. aging population
6. health information and technology
7. healthy living and wellness
8. decentralized care
9. disaster preparedness and ED saturation
10. genomics and predictive health
How can EBD positively influence the challenges represented by these trends? - ✔✔By
designing healing and therapeutic environments that help reduce errors, improve
patient and staff satisfaction, enhance efficiency, and support the latest technological
advances such as HIT and genomics.
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, What is the definition of evidence-based design? - ✔✔The process of basing decisions
about the built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes.
What are the eight steps of the EBD process? - ✔✔1. Define evidence-based goals and
objectives
2. Find sources for relevant evidence.
3. Critically interpret relevant evidence.
4. Create and innovate EBD concepts.
5. Develop a hypothesis.
6. Collect baseline performance measures.
7. Monitor implementation of design and construction.
8. Measure post-occupancy performance results.
Why has the construction of a new building been viewed as a sunk cost?
a. the purchase of the latest diagnostic technology
b. the building doesn't generate any increase of revenue
c. there is little association between investment and outcomes - ✔✔there is little
association between investment and outcomes
What is typically NOT affected by the design of the physical healthcare environment?
a. medical errors
b. adverse reactions to drugs
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Answers 100% Pass
What are the 10 current trends influencing healthcare in the US today? - ✔✔1. focus on
quality, safety and satisfaction
2. cost and reimbursement
3. environmental safety and sustainability
4. worker safety and caregiver shortages
5. aging population
6. health information and technology
7. healthy living and wellness
8. decentralized care
9. disaster preparedness and ED saturation
10. genomics and predictive health
How can EBD positively influence the challenges represented by these trends? - ✔✔By
designing healing and therapeutic environments that help reduce errors, improve
patient and staff satisfaction, enhance efficiency, and support the latest technological
advances such as HIT and genomics.
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, What is the definition of evidence-based design? - ✔✔The process of basing decisions
about the built environment on credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes.
What are the eight steps of the EBD process? - ✔✔1. Define evidence-based goals and
objectives
2. Find sources for relevant evidence.
3. Critically interpret relevant evidence.
4. Create and innovate EBD concepts.
5. Develop a hypothesis.
6. Collect baseline performance measures.
7. Monitor implementation of design and construction.
8. Measure post-occupancy performance results.
Why has the construction of a new building been viewed as a sunk cost?
a. the purchase of the latest diagnostic technology
b. the building doesn't generate any increase of revenue
c. there is little association between investment and outcomes - ✔✔there is little
association between investment and outcomes
What is typically NOT affected by the design of the physical healthcare environment?
a. medical errors
b. adverse reactions to drugs
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