Studies have shown that carefully selected home treatment regimens can play an important role in achieving which of the following?

1. Maintaining patients' lives
2. Improving patients' quality-of-life
3. Increasing patients' functional performance
4. Reducing hospitalization costs
a. 2 and 4 only
b. 1, 2, 3, and 4
c. 3 and 4 only
d. 1, 2, and 3 only

ANS: B
These benefits include increased longevity, improved quality-of-life, increased functional per-formance, and a reduction in the individual and societal costs associated with hospitalization.