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Choose the IOM quality aim addressed by this CMS objective: Reduce inappropriate an unnecessary care

True or false: The end goal for health policies is to increase access to quality healthcare for all individuals.

True or false: Utilizing patient navigators has been shown to increase rates of chronic disease.

True or false: Chronic, or noncommunicable, diseases are those that last for a long time, or emerge over a long period of time with age, and are leading causes of death, accounting for 7 out of every 10 deaths in the U.S.

True or false: Patient safety is part of quality healthcare, and is assured through preventing errors and creating a culture of safety across patients and providers.

Cooking, driving and managing finances are examples of ADL’s or IADL’s?

True or false: On any given day, about 1 in 25,000 patients have an infection caused by their medical care, most commonly from surgery sites or in the lungs, but also the bloodstream, urinary tract, and gastrointestinal areas.

True or false: PCPs can include: family practitioners, internists, nurse practitioners, obstetricians/gynecologists, pediatricians, and physician assistants. 

True or false: A major goal of the Affordable Care Act is to increase quality of care and reduce healthcare costs through the improvement of coordination in patient care and assuring continuity of patient care across transitions.

Facilitators to the transition from paper to electronic health records include: