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1
Physician assistants have become important health care providers because
A)they can be trained the same as physicians, but can be paid less.
B)they are better communicators with patients than physicians.
C)they spend more time in clinical rotation and time with patients than do physicians.
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
2
Patients are more likely to adhere to treatment instructions if the health care provider is
A)direct and straight forward in the presentation.
B)warm, confident, and friendly.
C)clinical, aloof, and scientific.
D)a and b
3
Which of the following contributes to communication interference between patient and his/her health care provider?
A)time pressures of the health care provider and staff
B)frustration by the patient who wants to talk with the provider in length above the symptoms
C)beliefs by the patient that the provider ought to know exactly the causes for the symptoms and how to treat them
D)all of the above
4
Health maintenance organization (HMO) are
A)most concerned that the patient reports satisfying care.
B)usually health care providers that are partially paid for by employers for employees with minimizing expenses as the advantage.
C)usually providers that members of a health plan can chose on their own.
D)are superior to PPO and POS's plans.
5
DRG's have the advantages of
A)reduced cost to patients.
B)helping the practitioners determine all the problems with a patient and providing individual treatment.
C)rewarding the practitioner with more money for finding all the medical problems of a patient.
D)helps the practitioner, but in the end might not help the patient.
6
The holistic health movement has
A)not yet become ingrained into most patient's awareness.
B)yet to catch on with women.
C)resulted in a change in viewing health from a lack of disease to quality of health.
D)shifted all truly effective health care to include spiritual beliefs and attitudes.
7
Knowing that communication is a problem as a patient ages, it would be best to
A)let your parents and grandparents go alone to medical appointments in order not to distract them by your presence.
B)explain to your parents and grandparents everything that you think they should have answered by the end of their appointment.
C)offer to go to medical appointments to lend another pair of ears and eyes to help understand what providers were saying.
D)go to the appointments and do all the talking for the older patient.
8
Creative nonadherence
A)can be seen as intellectual attempts by patients to maximize their treatment regimes.
B)is always going to cause problems for the patients even though they do not see it that way.
C)is most important when treating low income families.
D)is best left to health psychologists to study.
9
Health psychologists could be helpful in which areas of improved patient-provider communications by
A)helping providers communicate more effectively by rehearsed transcripts.
B)reminding providers that poor communication with patients has resulted in more malpractice litigation.
C)helping patients to calm down and listen to the providers and stop asking so many questions.
D)scheduling refresher courses on simple ways providers can increase positive interactions with patients.
10
Placebo effect is considered to be
A)most effective when a provider believes that the patient will get better with the treatment.
B)an effect produced when a patient believes and reports it is beneficial even if the research is not present.
C)effective as long as the treatment is active, but looses its value once it is discontinued.
D)all in the patient's head and needs to be ignored as folk lore.





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