Deck 11: Healthcare Planning

Question 1

______________ is the process by which a course of action is selected to achieve specific outcomes.

A) Assessing
B) Selecting
C) Planning
D) Choosing

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The proportion of patients from an area who use a particular hospital is called the _____________.

A) Relevance ratio
B) Relevance proportion
C) Relevance index
D) Relevance differential

Answer 2

C

Question 3

This report was first issued by the U.S. Surgeon General in 1979 to set national health priorities.

A) Healthy People
B) National Health Report
C) Healthy Country
D) Health Initiative

Answer 3

A

Question 4

This program was started in some U.S. states in the 1960s as a regulatory mechanism to reduce healthcare costs by avoiding duplication of services.

A) Assessment of Need
B) Duplication Assessment
C) Certificate of Need
D) Needs Assessment

Question 5

The _________________ include state-specific encounter-level data on ambulatory surgery and other outpatient services.

A) State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases
B) Encounter Level Ambulatory and Services Databases
C) Outpatient and Ambulatory Services Databases
D) State Outpatient and Ambulatory Services Databases

Question 6

The __________________ is a set of publicly available longitudinal hospital databases drawn from the State Inpatient Databases.

A) National Inpatient Database
B) Longitudinal Hospital Databases
C) Longitudinal Inpatient Sample
D) National Inpatient Sample

Question 7

The __________________ of a healthcare provider is defined by the area from which most of its patients come from.

A) Provider market
B) Geographic statistical area
C) Geographic market
D) Primary market

Question 8

The word ____________ implies availability of alternatives and examination of two or more choices.

A) Debating
B) Decision
C) Planning
D) Alternative

Question 9

This measure assesses the degree of concentration of healthcare resources, such as hospital beds, in a geographic market.

A) Elizinga-Hogarty test
B) Relevance index
C) Herfindahl-Hirschman index
D) Service concentration test

Question 10

The designation of Medically Underserved Areas is based on the __________________ score that is derived from health-related data of a geographic area.

A) Index of Medical Underservice
B) Relevance Index
C) Commitment Index
D) Market Index

Question 11

Health administrators and policy makers have similar perspectives and use the same methods to define healthcare markets.

Question 12

Statistically significant reduction in incidence, prevalence, or mortality rate is a realistic measure of the impact of health services.

Question 13

A healthcare market can be accurately defined by using the Elzinga-Hogarty test.

Question 14

"Big data" refers to data sets that are too big for a single computer to handle.

Question 15

The _________________ of a healthcare provider can be estimate by examining where do most of the patients of this provider come from.

Question 16

The proportion of all patients admitted to a hospital who originated form a specific area is called its __________________.

Question 17

The __________________ is used to define a geographic market in sectors of the economy that involve shipment of products into and out of an area.

Question 18

Planning for any future action must include the specification of:

A) Desired outcomes
B) Level of uncertainty
C) Available alternatives
D) Projected timeframe

Question 19

Which of the following would be considered nonspatial determinants of utilization?

A) Proximity to the provider
B) Age of the patient
C) Travel time
D) Ethnicity of the patient

Question 20

Which of the following are used to calculate the Index of Medical Underservice?

A) Maternal mortality rate
B) Percentage of the population under 18 years of age
C) Infant mortality rate
D) Percentage of the population with income below the federal poverty limit