Chapter 17, Problem 1RQ

Summary Introduction

Introduction: Epidemiology deals with the study, distribution, determination of health related state and events, and application of the study to control diseases. Healthcare epidemiology focuses on the mission of protecting patients and their healthcare providers from infectious and other diseases.

Answer to Problem 1RQ

Correct answer: “Proportion of patients in whom blood pressure is measured, proportion of patients advised to stop smoking, proportion of patients whose height and weight are measured, proportion of patients whose bill is reduced because of financial need are the measures of process of health care in clinic except proportion of patients who have complications of a disease”. Hence, option b. is the correct answer.

Explanation of Solution

Reason for the correct answer:

The impact of disease can be reduced by a tool called process of healthcare measures. This is used for helping patients for improving their health conditions by considering their various biological reports and providing advice to them. Healthcare measures may help by protecting patients and their healthcare providers from infectious and other diseases. These measures include blood pressure reports, advising the patients to stop smoking and ask them to take proper diet, taking measurement of height and weight of the patients, and checking the financial need of the patients. Usually, the healthcare measures do not include the proportion of patients who have complications of a disease because this measure will not help to improve the health condition of a patient.

Option b. is given as “Proportion of patients who have complications of a disease”. Proportion of patients who have complications of a disease is a measure regarding the patients who are suffering with a particular disease. This is not taken for health care measure because the measure will not help to improve patient’s health condition.

Hence the correct answer is option b.

Reasons for incorrect answers:

Option a. is given as, “Proportion of patients in whom blood pressure is measured”. This is incorrect because blood reports are considered in healthcare measure.

Hence, option a. is incorrect.

Option c. is given as, “Proportion of patients advised to stop smoking”. This is incorrect because patients are advised to stop smoking in healthcare measure for improving their health conditions.

Hence, option c. is incorrect.

Option d. is given as, “Proportion of patients whose height and weight are measured”.

This is incorrect because healthcare measures include measurement of height and weight of patients. Hence, option d. is incorrect.

Option e. is given as, “Proportion of patients whose bill is reduced because of financial need”. This is incorrect because financial needs of patients are considered in healthcare measures to improve health condition of patients.

Hence, option e. is incorrect.

Hence the options a., c, d., and e. are incorrect.

Conclusion

Proportion of patients who have complications of a disease is not taken for health care measure because the measure will not help to improve patient’s health condition.