Across
- 2. refers to a cluster of comprehensive services for terminally ill persons with a medically determined life expectancy of 6 months or less
- 5. medicines an alternative to traditional medicine
- 6. clinic
- 7. one's own responsibility
- 13. health care brings certain types of services to patients in their own homes
- 16. home consists of an interdisciplinary team of physicians and allied health professionals who partner with patients and their families, taking responsibility for ongoing patient care using a team approach, technology, and evidence-based protocols to deliver and coordinate care
- 17. care most complex level of care that is provided for relatively uncommon conditions, and is typically institution based, highly specialized, and technology driven
- 19. primary care (COPC) emphasizes the relations between the population, community, and personal health care. The main challenge of this paradigm is combining individual health needs on in the larger context of community health
- 20. services any health care services that are not provided on the basis of an overnight stay in which room and board are incurred
- 21. conditions require medical attention within a few hours; a longer delay presents possible danger to the patient and the disorder is acute but not severe enough to be life threatening
- 22. conditions do not require the resources of an emergency services, and the disorder is non-acute or minor in severity
Down
- 1. health care “essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them and at a cost that the community and the country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in a spirit of self-reliance and self determination” (WHO, 1978)
- 3. are freestanding ambulatory surgery centers independent of hospitals
- 4. underserved designation signals that a community has a dearth of primary care providers of primary care providers and delivery settings, as well as poor health indicators for the populace
- 8. management provides for coordination and referral among a variety of health care services in which the objective is to find the most appropriate setting to meet a patients health care needs
- 9. clinics provide ambulatory services, ranging from basic primary care to urgent care, but they are used on a non-routine, episodic basis
- 10. conditions critical and require immediate medical attention; time delay is harmful to the patient and the disorder is acute and potentially life threatening to life or function
- 11. care another name for outpatient care
- 12. triage a means of bringing expert opinion and advice to the patient, especially during the hours when physicians’ offices are closed
- 14. care short term sporadic consultation from a specialist to provide expert opinion, surgical, or other advanced interventions that a PCPs cannot perform
- 15. implies that patients do not visit specialists and are not admitted to a hospital without first being referred by their PCPs
- 18. daycare informal service offered during the normal workday to family members care for older adults
- 23. care centers offer extended hours; many are open 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and accept patients with no appointments