Test Bank for Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration 13th Edition by Pozgar
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Chapter 1 – Hospitals Through the Ages
Multiple Choice
1. _______ physicians were likely the first to use castor oil and peppermint as drugs were
A) Greek
B) Roman
C) Hindu
D) Egyptian Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Egyptian Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1
2. Ancient ruins provide evidence that patients were being treated holistically in __________ as early as 1134 BCE
A) Greek temples
B) Roman temples
C) Mohammedan asylums
D) Serbian temples
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Greek and Roman Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1
3. The writings of Hippocrates were preserved by:
A) Dutch merchants
B) Van Leeuwenhoek
C) monks.
D) barber surgeons Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: The “Dark Age” of Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1
4. Although __________ did not invent the first microscope, he was able to perfect it.
A) Van Leeuwenhoek
B) Fenwick
C) Lister
D) Pasteur
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Hospitals of the 18th Century
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5 _______ claimed that the alarming number of deaths from puerperal fever was due to the transfer of infection by students when they went from the dissecting room to the maternity ward
A) Pasteur
B) Morgan
C) Rhazes
D) Semmelweis
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Late-19th-Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1
6. __________ is often referred to as the first healthcare administrator.
A) Bedford Fenwick
B) W. G. Wylie
C) Florence Nightingale
D) John Hopkins
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Late-19th-Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1
7. The first incorporated hospital in the United States was founded in:
A) Boston.
B) Philadelphia
C) Manhattan
D) Richmond
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Hospitals in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1
8. __________ is credited with the discovery of the X-ray
A) Halstead
B) Whipple
C) McCollum
D) Roentgen
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Late-19th-Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1
9. The inventor of the electrocardiograph, which marked the beginning of medicine in the 20th century, is credited as:
A) Einthoven
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B) Einstein
C) Eisenberg
D) Ernst
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1
10. Reform in medical education early in the 20th century was due to:
A) hospital administrators
B) standardization
C) efforts of the National League of Nursing
D) efforts of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1
11. With the goal of providing the best professional, scientific, and humanitarian care possible, the _______ was the focus of early efforts in hospital standardization
A) drug regimen
B) patient
C) nurse
D) physician
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1
12. Hospitals first appeared as aesculapia (named after a god of medicine) in:
A) Egypt
B) Greece
C) Spain
D) Greenland
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Greek and Roman Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1
13. __________ introduced steam sterilization in 1886, which was of great importance for infection control in hospitals.
A) Bergmann
B) Konrad
C) McCollum
D) Halstead
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
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Ahead: Late-19th-Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1
14. __________ produced experimental rickets by means of an experimental diet
A) Wasserman
B) Fenwick
C) Virchow
D) Finlay
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1
15. __________ showed that wound healing could be hastened by using antiseptics.
A) Lister
B) Halstead
C) Pasteur
D) Semmelweis
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Late-19th-Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1
16 Anesthesia was first publicly demonstrated in 1846 at:
A) John Hopkins Hospital
B) Pennsylvania Hospital
C) New York Hospital
D) Massachusetts General Hospital
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Late-19th-Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1
17. Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the __________ on March 23, 2010. The legislation was designed to ensure that more Americans receive healthcare benefits.
A) National Insurance Act
B) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
C) Obama Care Act
D) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Health Care and Hospitals in the 21st Century
Subject: Chapter 1
18. __________ published a book in 1775 describing frightful conditions existing in hospitals
A) John Jones
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B) Thomas Bond
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) William Penn
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Hospitals in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1
19. In 1918, the American College of Surgeons drew up a “constitution” for hospitals setting forth the requirements for the care of the sick. This document was known as:
A) the Minimum Standard
B) the strict liability doctrine
C) the medical practice standard
D) national health insurance act.
Ans: A
Complexity:
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1
20. The scope of services provided by a hospital:
A) has remained constant over time.
B) continues to change
C) has been pre-established.
D) has been shrinking over the past 50 years
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Chapter Review
Subject: Chapter 1
21. The American College of Surgeons was founded in 1913 under the leadership of:
A) Carlos Finlay
B) August Von Wasserman
C) Casimir
D) Franklin H. Martin.
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1
22. The first American nursing school was established in 1872 at:
A) Roosevelt Hospital
B) Bellevue Hospital.
C) Sinai Hospital
D) Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Late-19th-Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1
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23. Which of the following images was engraved on a limestone pillar dating back to the Sumerians (2920 BCE)?
A) A Mohammedan hospital
B) An assemblage of wounded soldiers
C) Various physical ailments
D) Portrait of Socrates Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Military Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1
24. The _______ was most likely typical of the better hospitals of the Middle Ages.
A) London University Hospital
B) New London Hospital
C) Hotel-Dieu of Paris
D) Hospital of Siena
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Medieval Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1
25. The first psychiatric hospital founded in the United States was located in:
A) Norfolk, Virginia.
B) Richmond, Virginia.
C) Williamsburg, Virginia.
D) New York, New York.
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Hospitals in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1
26 _______, a dentist, developed sulfuric ether and arranged for the first hospital operation under anesthesia.
A) W. T. G. Morgan
B) Dr. Nathan Smith Davis
C) Ignatz Philipp Semmelweis
D) Crawford Long
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Late-19th-Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1
27. __________ is a plan of care whereby a patient pays an annual retainer fee in exchange for immediate access to a physician.
A) Emergency medicine
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B) Comprehensive medicine
C) Boutique medicine
D) Outpatient medicine
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Health Care and Hospitals in the 21st Century
Subject: Chapter 1
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