NSG517 Quizlet Study Guide - Chapter 24

CHAPTER 24

Question 1In 1999, the IOM reported that at least 44,000 people die in hospitals each year as a result of which of the following?

  Unaffordable health care

  Medical errors

  Falls

  Lack of access to primary care

Question 2The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed by President Barack Obama in 2009 and mandated which of the following for health care?

  Expansion of the APRN role

  EHR use

  Increased funding for APRN education programs

  National standards for APRNs

Question 3The requirement that outlines that a facility must utilize an EHR and technology that meets government criteria, exchanges standardized health data and information, advances clinical processes, and reports quality measures is defined as:

  Health care standardization

  Adverse event reduction

  Meaningful use

  Informatics

Question 4Improved documentation through more detail by an APRN will directly affect which of the following coding types as related to increased reimbursement?

  SNOMED CT

  LOINC

  RxNorm

  MS-DRG

  CPT

Question 5Alphanumeric designations maintained by the World Health Organization that correlate with nearly every procedure, diagnosis, symptom, and cause of death are known as which of the following?

  ICD-10-CM

  CPT

  HCPCS

  SNOMED CT

  LOINC

Question 6An APRN wishes to become familiar with all of the reporting measures or metrics required by his or her specific practice. Which of the following would be the best resource for this information?

  National Quality Forum

  The Joint Commission

  Medicaid Adult Health Care Quality Measures Program

  National Institutes of Health

Question 7Which of the following legislation will change Medicare payments beginning January 1, 2019, away from the existing fee-for-service system to one that is based on as well as rewards quality in care?

  CAHPS

  Values-Based Modifier

  Meaningful use

  MACRA

Question 8In an effort to further link care, such as that provided by an APRN to patient outcomes and reporting measures, which of the following additional requirements was included in MACRA?

  Individual billing by each provider

  Estimating percentages of time care was given by each provider

  Limiting the number of  specialists for each area of care per patient

  Assigning patient-provider relationship identifiers

Question 9An APRN is reviewing his or her CAHPS scores for his or her facility and personal provider number. The patient experience information is displayed as a list of monthly percentage of hospital readmissions. This is best described as:

  Descriptive analytics

  Predictive analytics

  Prescriptive analytics

  Statistical process control

Question 10An APRN wishes to analyze his or her patients in a primary care practice. He or she wishes to identify patient trends of vitals and laboratory results and then automatically intervene to recommend global changes in case based on evidence-based practice to improve quality metrics. This type of data analysis is best known as which of the following?

  Statistical process control analysis

  Descriptive analytics

  Data mining

  Predictive analytics

  Prescriptive analytics