Describe how a healthcare organization transfers financial risk.

What will be an ideal response?

The commonest method for transferring financial risk is the purchase of insurance policies that cover various categories of risk such as property damage, liability, and malpractice. A less common method is the formation of insurance pools with similar organizations. Both methods require periodic payments based on the estimated probabilities and costs of undesired incidents.

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Which of the following modes of support provides all of the patient's minute ventilation (VE) as mandatory volume-controlled (VC) breaths?

a. VC continuous mandatory ventilation b. VC intermittent mandatory ventilation c. Pressure-supported ventilation d. Continuous positive airway pressure

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During volume-controlled continuous mandatory ventilation, should either compliance decrease or airway resistance (Raw) increase, what will happen?

a. The peak airway pressure will decrease. b. The inspiratory flow will increase. c. The peak airway pressure will increase. d. The inspiratory time will decrease.

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