Exam 10: Hospitals and Health Disparities

According to the authors, in addition to the patient-based conditions that enhance risks of hospital-acquired infections, treatment=related conditions also increase vulnerability to hospital-acquired infections. Thus, hospitals with lower ratings may want to analyze their files to determine whether the patients in the higher risk category also:

Every hospital administrator should have access to data to determine if disparities exist..

In order for a hospital to meet the criteria of a registered facility it must:

Barnett and Berchick (2017) found that as of 2016, which group below was less likely to have healthcare insurance:

The states (including the District of Columbia) in the country with the largest % of hospitals with 1 or 2 star ratings in 2015 were:

The term "multicollinearity" is a measure of whether the independent variables are themselves related.

Urban Hospital X will also need to:

DRG stands for:

Based on Box 10.1, approximately what percent of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia had no hospitals with 1 or 2 stars in 2015?

A qualitative case study was introduced using data for one low performing hospital in one state. The community served by this hospital was:

More than 87% of all hospitals are.

The authors recommended that it is critical for hospitals with low ratings to compare the patient characteristics of those whom they service in order to determine whether a % of their ratings reflect a demographic and/or socioeconomic group who enter a hospital with:

The group of states (including D.C.) with the lowest percent of college graduates in 2015 were:

The group of states (plus D.C.) with the highest percent of minority populations in 2015 were:

Worster et al. (2018: (Level s)

In order to interpret the Summary Output Table, definitions are needed for each component. Which definitions listed below are correctly matched?

According to the authors, explicit bias based on subtribalism can occur at 3 affective levels. Which levels below are correctly defined.

Based upon the text, the number of registered hospitals in the United States is:

Several factors have impacted the change in the number of hospitals in the health care system. These factors include:

The Qualis Report found that a crisis may currently exist in terms of higher rates of hospital readmission for _______ among Medicare patients in the State of Washington.