October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
480 pages
16h 30m
English
Content preview from Handbook of Healthcare Analytics
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Glossary of Terms
- Academic medical center
- A medical center consisting of medical schools, faculty practice plans, and teaching hospitals. (Chapter 1)
- Access to care
- The attainment of timely and appropriate health care by patients. (Chapter 5)
- Activities of daily living (ADL)
- Activities such as bathing, clothing, transfer, toilet use, feeding and walking, which reflect the patient's ability to heal. (Chapter 12)
- Adverse events
- Injuries caused by medical management and resulting in a measurable disability. (Chapter 5)
- Adverse selection
- An agency issue that arises before two parties enter into a contractual arrangement, when one party has better information about himself than the other party does. (Chapter 15)
- Ambulatory care
- Health services that are provided on an outpatient basis and without the need to admit patients to an inpatient facility. Ambulatory care is provided in a variety of settings, including, but not limited to, the offices of healthcare providers, hospital outpatient departments, outpatient surgical centers, diagnosis clinics, labs, dialysis clinics, and (freestanding) emergency departments. (Chapter 10)
- Ambulatory surgery center
- Non‐hospital facilities that exclusively provide surgical services that do not require patients to be admitted for hospital stays. (Chapter 4)
- Asymmetric information
- A situation in which one party has an informational advantage over the other party. (Chapter 15)
- Boutique medicine
- A type of business ...
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