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chapter 7 medical.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vital Statistics: | important events in a person's life used by government and public health agencies to determine population trends and needs. |
| Mortality Rate: | Death rate (deaths/total population) |
| Morbidity Rate: | number of sick people in a population |
| The mortality and morbidity weekly report | published weekly by the CDC |
| Coroner | public health officer holds an inquest (investigation) if death from unknown or violent cause |
| Medical examiner | Physician who investigates unexplained deaths and can perform autopsy |
| autopsy | examination of organs and tissues of the body after death to determine cause of death |
| "First Right" individual | individual who has the power of consent for autopsy of the deceased body, unless suspicious cause of death |
| Communicable diseases | diseases transmitted from one person to another must be reported by physicians |
| The child abuse prevention and treatment act (1974) | requires that all abuse must be reported by personnel: teachers, health professionals, law enforcement and day care personnel, and social service workes |
| Medical records | collection of data recorded when a patient seeks medical treatment |
| 5 C's of Documentation | Concise, complete, clear, correct, chronologically ordered |
| Corrections to electronic records | Do not obscure original record add a significant change or addition |
| Doctrine of professional discretion | health care professionals have the right not to release a record if it is in the best interest of the patient |
| Retention and storage of records | -medical records are kept until specified statute of limitations - usually, 2-7 years or lifetime |
| Routine release of medical info | -insurance claims -transfer to another physician -use in a court of law |
| consent | permission from a person, either expressed or implied, for something to be done by another |
| Government steps adopting HIT | The health insurance portability and accountability (HIPPA) |
| Beneficence | a moral obligation to act for the benefits of others |
| duty | an obligation that people have or perceive themselves to have |
| disposition | the tendency of something or someone to act in a certain manner under given circumstances |
| nonmaleficence | refraining from the act of harming or committing evil |
| The prime objective of the medical profeion is to? | Render service to humanity |
| Advocate | one who pleads the cause of another or defends a cause or proposal |
| The earliest written code of ethics was? | Code of Hammurabi |
| With regard to ethical distress, what stands in the way of making an ethical choice? | Barriers |
| The first step in the five-step process of ethical decision making is | Gather relevant information |
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