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Question 1: What is the purpose of clinical practice guidelines?
Question 2: A service is cost-efficient when:
Question 3: Compared to other nations, the U.S. uses a larger share of its economic resources for health care.
Question 4: Prevention and lifestyle behavior changes to promote health are not major foci of the medical model.
Question 5: Whether payment for health care services is made by the government or by a private insurance company, individual patients pay a price far higher than the actual cost of the service.
Question 6: Managed care increased the rate of growth in health spending between 1993 and 2000.
Question 7: Health care costs for the elderly are nearly 3 times more than those for the non-elderly.
Question 8: What is meant by the term "health care costs"?
Question 9: What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
Question 10: What is the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)?
Question 11: The U.S. has never imposed price controls on the health care industry.
Question 12: Approximately what percentage of GDP is spent on health care?
Question 13: What are administrative costs?
Question 14: What are the main activities of risk management?
Question 15: What is the main reason for the lack of success of health care cost control efforts in the U.S.?
Question 16: The Donabedian Model includes all of the following elements except:
Question 17: Why should rising health care costs be controlled?