Chapter 04 Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Chapter 04 Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

Multiple Choice

1. In colonial America, the primary functions of hospitals were to:

1. support scientific research
2. shelter older adults, the dying, orphans, and vagrants and protect community residents from contagiously sick and mentally ill persons
3. provide congregate sites for training of nurses
4. provide entrepreneurial enterprises for business-minded physicians

Ans.: B

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2. The development that contributed most significantly to the decline of the social mission of voluntary hospitals was the:

1. specialization of clinical practice
2. enactment of private and public insurance reimbursement for hospital care
3. development of high-technology hospital care
4. passage of 1973 HMO legislation

Ans.:  B

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3. The ultimate responsibility for a hospital’s quality of care, including the medical care provided, rests with a hospital’s:

1. medical staff organization
2. department of quality management
3. board of directors
4. chief executive officer

Ans.:  C

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4. A major obligation of doctors when obtaining informed consent for a medical procedure is to:

1. shield the patient from information about possible negative side effects
2. ensure that family members agree with the patient’s decision
3. ensure that the patient understands the risks and benefits of the procedure
4. protect themselves from malpractice claims

Ans.:  C