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Access
An individual's ability to obtain appropriate health care services. Barriers to access can be financial, geographic, organizational and sociological. Efforts to improve access often focus on providing/improving health coverage.
Accessibility
As required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, removal of barriers that would hinder a person with a disability from entering, functioning, and working within a facility. Required restructuring of the facility cannot cause undue hardship for the employer.
Accreditation
A process whereby a program of study or an institution is recognized by an external body as meeting certain predetermined standards. For facilities, accreditation standards are usually defined in terms of physical plant, governing body, administration, and medical and other staff. Accreditation is often carried out by organizations created for the purpose of assuring the public of the quality of the accredited institution or program. The state or federal governments can recognize
accreditation in lieu of, or as the basis for licensure or other mandatory approvals. Public or private payment programs often require accreditation as a condition of payment for covered services. Accreditation may either be permanent or may be given for a specified period of time.
Active Error
An error that occurs at the level of the front line operator and whose effects are felt almost immediately.
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
Basic personal activities which include bathing, eating, dressing, mobility, transferring from bed to chair, and using the toilet. ADLs are used to measure how dependent a person may be on requiring assistance in performing any or all of these activities.
Acute Care
Care that is generally provided for a short period of time to treat a certain illness or condition. This type of care can include short-term hospital stays, doctor's visits, surgery, and X-rays. Which unit measure is used to indicate the services received by one patient in a 24 hour period?A unit of measure that reflects the services received by one inpatient during a 24-hour period is an inpatient service day. The number of inpatient service days for a 24-hour period is equal to the daily inpatient census, that is, one service day for each patient treated.
What is another word for inpatient days?Other synonymous terms include "total inpatient service days," "occupied bed days," or "census patient days of care." BEDS DAYS AVAILABLE - The maximum number of inpatient days of care that would have been provided if all beds were filled during the year.
What is total inpatient service days?Total inpatient days means the sum of all days during which a resident, regardless of payment source, occupies a bed in an ICF/IID that is included in the ICF/IID certified capacity under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 49 stat. 620, 42 U.S.C.A. 301 in effect as of October 16, 2018.
What is the term is used for the number of inpatient present at any one time in a healthcare facility?Inpatient census is the number of inpatients present in a healthcare facility at a given time. Daily inpatient census is the number of inpatients present at the census-taking time each day, plus any inpatients who were both admitted after the previous census-taking and discharged before the next census-taking time.
How do you calculate inpatient days?Inpatient days are calculated by subtracting day of admission from day of discharge.
How do you calculate the average daily inpatient census?Calculations: Average daily census = annual admissions x length of stay divided by 365.
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