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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:

Suppose event A has probability [a] and event B has probability [b].  If A and B are independent, what is the probability that A and B occur? Enter your answer to 4 decimal places. 

The number of surface flaws in plastic panels used in the interior of automobiles has a Poisson distribution with a population mean of 0.11 flaws in one square foot of plastic panel. What is the population standard deviation of the number of flaws in 6.5 square feet of plastic panel?   You must use the TI-84 emulator to solve this problem.  Failure to do so will result in 0 points awarded for this problem.  Click here to use it: ti84calc.com   Express your answer to 4 decimal places.