Chapter 1 Key Terms

Question 1

Complementary therapies

Answer 1

Method of treatment used in conjunction with biomedical therapies

Question 2

Cost containment

Answer 2

Procedures used to control costs or expenses

Question 3

Diagnostic related groups (DRGs)

Answer 3

Method of classifying diagnoses into specific payment or reimbursement categories.

Question 4

Energy conservation

Answer 4

Energy conservation

Question 5

Geriatric care

Answer 5

Geriatric care

Question 6

Holistic health care

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Home health care

Answer 7

Any type of health care provided in a patients home environment

Question 8

Integrative (integrated) health care

Answer 8

A form of health care that uses both mainstream medical treatments and complementary and alternative therapies to treat a patient.

Question 9

Omnibus budget reconciliation act (OBRA)

Answer 9

Federal law that regulates the education and testing of nursing assistants.

Question 10

Outpatient services

Answer 10

Outpatient services

Question 11

Pandemic

Answer 11

An infectious disease that affects many people over a wide geographic area; a worldwide epidemic

Question 12

Telemedicine

Answer 12

The use of video, audio, and computer systems to provide medical and/or health care services.

Question 13

Wellness

Answer 13

State of being in good health; well

Question 14

Alternative therapies

Answer 14

Method of treatment used in place of biomedical therapies.