Match each term on the left with its definition on the right. Enter the letter for your answer in the blank before each number.

Question

1. history and physical
2. acute care hospital
3. consultation report
4. home healthcare
5. ancillary report
6. ambulatory care center
7. nurse’s notes
8. rehabilitation center
9. diagnostic reports
10. specialty care hospital
11. operative report
12. physician’s office
13. discharge summary
14. hospice
15. pathologist’s report
16. health maintenance organization
17. physician’s orders
18. nursing home
19. physician’s progress notes
20. anesthesiologist’s report


a. Provides services that do not require overnight hospital stay
b. Reports results of tests performed on patient
c. Provides services in prepaid system
d. Written by admitting physician, includes initial diagnoses
e. Provides long-term care for patients unable to care for themselves
f. Complete list of care, medication, tests, and treatments ordered for patient
g. Reports results from studying tissue removed from patient
h. Provides care for very specific types of diseases
i. Daily record of patient’s condition, results of tests, and updated diagnoses
j. Record of patient’s care throughout day
k. Provides services in patient’s own home
l. Written by specialist who has seen patient
m. Provides services for terminally ill patients
n. Relates details regarding substances given to patient during surgery
o. Written by surgeon
p. Provides intensive physical and occupational therapy
q. Comprehensive outline of patient’s entire hospital stay
r. Provides services in private office setting
s. Reports results from various treatments and therapies patient has received
t. Provides services for a short period of time

Answer 1

1. d. Written by admitting physician, includes initial diagnoses
2. t. Provides services for a short period of time
3. l. Written by specialist who has seen patient
4. k. Provides services in patient’s own home
5. s. Reports results from various treatments and therapies patient has received
6. a. Provides services that do not require overnight hospital stay
7. j. Record of patient’s care throughout day
8. p. Provides intensive physical and occupational therapy
9. b. Reports results of tests performed on patient
10. h. Provides care for very specific types of diseases
11. o. Written by surgeon
12. r. Provides services in private office setting
13. q. Comprehensive outline of patient’s entire hospital stay
14. m. Provides services for terminally ill patients
15. g. Reports results from studying tissue removed from patient
16. c. Provides services in prepaid system
17. f. Complete list of care, medication, tests, and treatments ordered for patient
18. e. Provides long-term care for patients unable to care for themselves
19. i. Daily record of patient’s condition, results of tests, and updated diagnoses
20. n. Relates details regarding substances given to patient during surgery