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awywial · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Which patient would be considered to belong to a vulnerable population when included in research? Select all that apply.

1. A healthy newborn delivered at 38-week's gestation.
2. A 45-year-old woman with diagnosed bipolar disease.
3. A 28-year-old woman who is 16-weeks pregnant.
4. A 35-year-old man who is hospitalized with renal colic.
5. A 58-year-old female inmate who was injured in a prison fight.

Question 2

The nurse managers of a hospital are working to identify the physical skills and actual nursing time spent to accomplish specific procedures. This work is most closely associated with which type of reimbursement strategy?

1. Discounted fee-for-service
2. Diagnostic-related group
3. Capitation
4. Resource-based relative value scale

duy1981999 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

1, 2, 3, 5
Explanation: 1. Neonates are considered a vulnerable population.
2. Persons with mental illness are considered a vulnerable population.
3. Pregnant women and fetuses are considered vulnerable populations.
4. Persons who are hospitalized are not considered part of a vulnerable population based upon the hospitalization alone.
5. Persons confined to institutions such as prisons are considered part of a vulnerable population.

Answer to Question 2

4
Explanation: 1. This is a payment method that offers to pay the provider a specific percentage of the provider's usual charge, or offers a reduced rate.
2. DRGs are per-stay reimbursement plans that focus on a single episode of care related to a diagnosis, and include all predetermined expected services delivered for that episode of care.
3. This is a prepayment to a provider to deliver healthcare services to enrollees of a health plan.
4. In this system, payments for services are determined by the resource needed to provide the service. Managers work to assure that practice approximates this scale.