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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.

Suppose that X is the number of hurricanes in a 1-year period and that X has the Poisson pmf with lambda = [L] hurricanes per year.   This copywritten question is part of a quiz or exam at Arizona State.  It may not be posted to Chegg.com or any other website or reproduced without the permission of the author, Dr. L. Chattin, and Arizona State University. What is the probability that there are one or fewer hurricanes in a 3-month period?  Enter your answer to four decimal places.   You must use the online calculator ti84calc.com on this problem.  Failure to do so, even if your answer is correct, will result in a score of 0 on this question.

The exam will be printed, graded, and returned to you in-person. Exam 1.pdf