BPA Practice 2023-24

The number of people ho stay overnight in a hospital bed on a typical day at a specific hospital.

Hospitals and other types of providers that are affiliated with a medical school and play active roles in training new health care providers, especially physicians, and in clinical research in collaboration with a medical school.

An individual's ability to obtain medical services on a timely and financially acceptable basis. Factors determining ease of access also include availability of health care facilities, transportation to them, and reasonable hours of operation.

An entity--usually a hospital or a physician group--that accepts responsibility for the medical care of a population of people. An insurer or government payer develops some form of financial incentives to motivate the ACO to ensure that health care cost patterns for the covered group are better than the patterns for comparable people not in the group. First initiated by the Medicare program, various versions of the ACO idea are being tried by a range of payers.

Tasks required for a person's normal functioning.

Medical care of a limited duration, provided in a hospital or outpatient setting, to treat an injury or short-term illness.

Conditions for which patients are hospitalized that could have been handled on an outpatient basis.

Care for which expected health exceed negative consequences.

Services provided to individuals who need assistance with activities of daily living.

Doctors who have "privileges" to use a particular hospital for inpatient care of their patients.

A count of unnecessary deaths from diseases for which effective public health and medical interventions are available.

A decision made by a recognized organization that an institution substantially meets appropriate standards.