The nurse who works in telehealth best evaluates that overarching goals for the program have been met with which information?
a. Decreased mortality rate
b. Fewer exacerbations of chronic illness
c. Improved health status and quality of life
d. Lowered costs for provision of health care
C
All options show good outcomes from the use of telehealth. However, the broadest measure is improved health status and quality of life.
Decreased mortality rate, in itself, is too narrow a measurement to evaluate broad goals.
Fewer exacerbations of chronic illness is, in itself, too narrow a measurement to evaluate broad goals.
Lowered costs for the provision of health care is, in itself, too narrow a measurement to evaluate broad goals.
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