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?