Chapter 1

Question 1

Cost Containment

Answer 1

Trying to control the rising cost of health care while keeping maximum benefit

Question 2

Outpatient services

Answer 2

Patients who receive care without being admitted to hospitals or other care facilities

Question 3

Energy conservation

Answer 3

Managing controlling and conserving use of energy (major expense for hospitals

Question 4

Home health care

Answer 4

Patient is cared for at home

Question 5

Geriatric care

Answer 5

Care for the elderly

Question 6

Omnibus budget reconciliation act (OBRA)

Answer 6

Led to development of many regulations regarding long-term care and home care

Question 7

Telemedicine

Answer 7

Video audio and computer systems to provide medical and health care services

Question 8

Wellness

Answer 8

The state of being in optimal health (physical mental and social health)

Question 9

Holistic health care

Answer 9

Care that promotes physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual well being

Question 10

Complementary therapies

Answer 10

Methods of treatment that are used in conjunction with conventional medical therapies

Question 11

Alternative therapies

Answer 11

Methods of treatment that are used in place of biomedical therapies

Question 12

Integrative (integrated) health care

Answer 12

Uses mainstream medical treatments and CAM therapies to treat patients

Question 13

Pandemic

Answer 13

when the outbreak of a disease occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a high proportion of the population

Question 14

Biotechnologies

Answer 14

The use of genetic and biochemical processes of living systems and organisms to develop or modify useful products