MHA 710 Exam 2 Questions & Answers!!
The direct costs in an economic evaluation include all of the following except
When measuring effectiveness of a treatment, surrogate measures reflect clinical efficacy and include
Which of the following measures of effectiveness is not a surrogate measure?
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1). The direct costs in an economic evaluation include all of the following except
Ans: Reduced productivity at work
2). When measuring effectiveness of a treatment, surrogate measures reflect clinical efficacy
and include
Ans: bone-mass density (BMD)
3). Which of the following measures of effectiveness is not a surrogate measure?
Ans: Hip fracture
4). The intangible costs associated with reduced quality of life include
Ans: Pain and suffering
5). Suppose that you are asked to use the standard time trade-off approach to measure quality
of life and are given the following information. an individual is faced with living the
remaining 10 years of her life suffering from severe osteoporosis. she reveals that she
would be willing to give up four of those years to live the remaining six in perfect health.
what is the utility of one year in the chronic health state relative to perfect health?
Ans: 0.6
6). Researchers estimate qalys in a number of different ways. one popular approach is called
the
Ans: standard gamble
7). The standard cut-off for cost per qaly is ___ per capita income
Ans: equal to
8). Cost-effectiveness considerations are more formally integrated into health policy making in
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, Ans: Australia, Europe, and Canada
9). Steps in performing a cost-effectiveness analysis include all of these except
Ans: prioritizing the alternative treatment options
10). Researchers use cost-of-illness studies to
Ans: study the burden of a disease, determine the low-cost option to treat a disease,
compare two or more treatment options when the medical outcome is identical, increase
public awareness of cost of treating certain diseases
11). Many economists consider medical care a superior good. which of the following
statements is true regarding a superior good?
Ans: as consumer income increases, a larger percentage of that income is spent on
superior good; a superior good has an income elasticity of demand greater than 1
12). A critical assumption in the model of demand and supply is the independence of demand
and supply curves. if the two are not independent, a shift in the supply curve can lead to a
shift in the demand curve referred to as
Ans: supplier-induced demand
13). The top ten causes of death in the us in 2010 included all of the following except
Ans: AIDS
14). The accompanying diagram depicts the relationship between health status and medical
care spending for a particular country. which of the following statements is true?
Ans: Social pressures will move the health care system to spend S2
15). Health care that actually harms the patient, such as an adverse reaction to a prescription
drug, is called
Ans: iatrogenic disease
16). The number on cause of death in the us in 1980 was
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