Author Question: Persons with disabilities have often been defined by their illness or disability. Defining someone ... (Read 93 times)

amal · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Persons with disabilities have often been defined by their illness or disability. Defining someone by their disease or disability is devaluing and disrespectful. Which of the following is the correct way to refer to someone with a disability?

1. A handicapped person
2. A person with an amputation
3. An amputee
4. A wheelchair-bound afflicted person

Question 2

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research (AHRQ), problems of quality care are divided into five groups. The overuse of service refers to:

1. Conservative treatment practices
2. Patient safety issues and how disability and mortality can be reduced
3. Disparities of quality
4. The ordering of unnecessary tests, surgeries, and treatments

debra928 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

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The correct way to address someone is a person with and not label a person according to their disability as in choice No. 3.

Answer to Question 2

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The overuse of service group in the AHRQ problems of quality of care refers to the ordering of unnecessary tests, surgeries, and treatments.