Across
- 2. the standards that a healthcare organization must meet to receive Medicare funding.
- 6. the legal authority or formal permission from authorities to carry out certain activities that require such permission
- 7. a collection of data items collected on long-term care patients regarding their medical condition and ability to function
- 10. the process of identifying the source of health record entries by attaching a handwritten signature, the author's initials, or an electronic signature
- 11. an official designation indicating that a healthcare facility is in compliance with the Medicare Conditions of Participation
- 12. a set of principles, codes, beliefs, guidelines, and regulations that have been vetted and agreed upon by an individual or a group of individuals who are regarded as an authority on a particular subject matter
- 18. nature and duration of the symptoms that caused the patient to seek medical attention as stated in his/her own
- 19. orders the medical staff or an individual physician established as routine care for a specific diagnosis/procedure
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- 1. provides accreditation for ambulatory surgery centers, critical access hospitals, hospital home health, hospice, psychiatric hospital
- 3. serve to justify further acute-care treatment in healthcare organizations
- 4. a summary of the patient's problems from the nurse or other professional's perspective with a detailed plan for interventions
- 5. the process of reviewing and validating the qualifications of physicians and other licensed independent practitioners for granting medical staff to provide patient care
- 8. the recording of pertinent healthcare findings, interventions, and responses to treatment as a business record and form of communication among caregivers
- 9. the reliability and effectiveness of data for its intended uses in operations, decision making, and planning
- 13. a federally mandated tool for assessment in long-term care settings designed to provide thorough and systematic appraisal of residents
- 14. the documents and data elements that a healthcare provider may include in response to legally permissible requests for patient information
- 15. established in the 1960's as an independent, nonprofit accrediting organization to meet the survey needs of various rehabilitation-based healthcare providers
- 16. a piece of legislation written and approved by a state or federal legislature and then signed into law by the state's governor or the president of the United States
- 17. the federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services known for its operational oversight of the Medicare and Medicaid programs
- 20. a pattern used in EHRs to capture data in a structured manner and specify the information to be collected