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FACHE FLASH CARDS HEALTHCARE EXAM GUIDE SOLUTIONS A+ GRADED
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FACHE FLASH CARDS HEALTHCARE EXAM GUIDE SOLUTIONS. activities of daily living (ADLs): Measures a person's ability to function in 6 activities:
1.Eating
2.Bathing
3.Dressing
4.Toileting
5.Maintaining continence
6.Getting in and out of a bed or chair
2.Acute Condition: A condition that has been present for a short
period of time - a few days
3.Sub-acute condition: A condition that has been present for 1-3
weeks
4.Chronic Condition: A condition that has been present for several weeks to months - often associated with debilitation
5.Debilitation: Weak, feeble or infirm
6.Length of Stay (LOS): Number of days a patient stays in the hospital and counted by the number of nights spent in the hospital.
7.Case Mix Index (CMI): A measure of the clinical severity or resource require- ments of the patients in a particular hospital or treated by a particular clinician during a specific time period.
8.Medical Home: enhanced model of primary care that provides whole-person, accessible, comprehensive, ongoing, and coordinated patient-centered care
9.Population Health: health outcomes of a group of people, and FACHE FLASH CARDS HEALTHCARE EXAM GUIDE SOLUTIONS
2 / the distribution of those outcomes within the group
10.What are the 2 Population Health Measures?: 1. Incidence: number of cases occurring in a population within a time period
2. Prevalence: the total number of cases in the population at a single point in time
11.Institute of Medicine (IOM): Non-governmental, independent, and nonprofit organization of physicians that provides unbiased, expert advice to governmental and private decision-
makers, as well as the public.
12.Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ): Agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that surveys and reports quality data
13.HCAHPS: Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Sys- tems
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