| History of Health Care | ||
| #1 | Benjamin Franklin established the first United States hospital, known as the ____________________ Hospital. | Pennsylvania |
| #2 | Long and Morton discovered that ether gas could be used during surgery as a(n) ____________________ to put patients to sleep. | Anesthetic |
| #3 | Laws against dissection were relaxed and the first scientific studies of the human body occurred during the ____________________ period. | Renaissance |
| #4 | From 500 AD through 1347 AD, a series of epidemics known as the ____________________ killed 42 million people in Europe. | Black death |
| #5 | In the De Contagione, the modern theory of the spread of infection by invisible germs and modes of disease transmission was written by _________________________. | Girolamo Fracastoro |
| Advancement in Health Care | ||
| #1 | Paul Ehrlich destroyed microbes responsible for particular diseases by using ____________________. | Chemotherapy |
| #2 | An interpretation of a law as written by an administrative agency is called a(n) ____________________. | Regulation |
| #3 | Measurements of a health care organization’s level of performance in specific areas that are created by accrediting agencies are called ____________________. | Standard |
| #4 | Voluntary compliance with standards is known as ____________________. | Accreditation |
| #5 | The Joint Commission’s approach to accreditation is ______________ and data-driven. | Patient-centered |
| Abbreviation | ||
| #1 | GINA is the abbreviation for ____________________. | Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act |
| #2 | The abbreviation HITECH Act means ________________ Act. | Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health |
| #3 | ICD-10-PCS is the abbreviation for International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, ____________________. | Procedural Coding System |
| #4 | Private, non-profit organization formed to assist ambulatory health care organizations improve the quality of care provided to patients | Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care |
| #5 | Previously known as the Health Care Finance Administration | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services |
| Legislation | ||
| #1 | The American Osteopathic Association transferred administrative responsibility for the AOA’s Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program to the ____________________ in 1999. | American Osteopathic Information Association (AOIA) |
| #2 | The National Practitioner Data Base (NPDB) was established by the ____________________ to gather information about a practitioner’s credentials, previous malpractice, and adverse action histories. | Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 |
| #3 | The Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982 replaced Professional Standard Review Organizations with ____________________, which review statewide utilization of services and quality of care provided to Medicare and Medicaid patients. | Peer Review Organizations |
| #4 | Regulations that govern privacy, security, and electronic transactions for health care information were mandated by the _____________________________________________ Act. | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability |
| #5 | The Joint Commission’s ____________________ initiative integrates outcomes and other performance measurement data in the accreditation process for quality improvement purposes. | ORYX |
| Miscellaneous | ||
| #1 | A ____________________ ensures an appropriate response to internal and external disasters. | Disaster recovery plan |
| #2 | The ____________________ department is the recipient of all incident reports. | Risk management |
| #3 | Quaternary care is provided most commonly at ____________________ centers. | Tertiary care |
| #4 | A digital signature uses ______________________________ to attach an alphanumeric code to a document to represent the person signing the document. | Public key cryptography |
| #5 | A universal chart is created when inpatient and ____________________ patient records are organized in the same order. | Discharged |
| Final Question | |
| A plastic card that contains a small central processing unit and memory and can interact with a reader is known as a ____________________. | Smart Card |