State health agencies engage in a wide array of primary preventive services. The most prominent of these services relates to:

The nurse will assess for deep tendon reflexes at which of the following sites? (Select all that apply).

Managed care organizations use evidence-based clinical guidelines, patient self-management education, telemedicine, disease registries, risk stratification, proactive patient outreach, and performance feedback to providers through which of the following programs?

In future years, the highest employment growth in the healthcare workforce is expected among health maintenance organizations, ambulatory clinics, and home healthcare providers.  

During unfavorable conditions the bacteria will form a resistant structures called ________

A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid initiative to improve the quality of hospital care enforces non-payment rules for certain hospital-acquired-conditions (HACs).  

The most influential managed care quality assurance organization that accredits many different aspects of managed care organizations on a voluntary basis is the: 

Which of the following is not a principal state influence on healthcare delivery and public health?

Goals of high-deductible health plans include which of the following?

The diagnosis-related group (DRG) payment methodology shifted hospital reimbursement from a fee-for-service retrospective mode to a pre-paid prospective basis. A major purpose of this new payment system was to: