Ms. Smith discusses her treatment options with her doctor. He discuss severalcare options, possible effectiveness and their cost. He is actually explaining which of the following?

A. RICE

B. QALY

C. ICER

D. CEA

Question 2

A patient was told by her doctor to that she had a choice of taking a medication or not taking the medication. Are those two options mutually exclusive of each other.

A. Yes

B. No

C. Depends on the illness or circumstances of the illness.

Question 3

Decision analysis models are used to visual pathway of the events that could occur.

A. True

B. False

Question 4

1. Life expectancy at birth tends to _______ from year to the next.

A. Life expectancy at birth tends to _______ from year to the next.

B. Increase, because of health interventions

C. Decrease, because as people get older they have less years to live

D. None of the above.

Question 5

If the goal of Healthy People 2040 is increase life expectancy for all Americans to age 105, and this is achieved, this would be an example of ______________.

A. Roll Back

B. Efficiency

C. Efficacy

D. Half Cycle Correction

Question 6

Which of the following best determines why cost effectiveness is important?

A. It estimates the cost of the quality and quantity based on a health intervention

B. It estimates how much a person should pay for a health intervention

C. It produces health outcomes for QALY and ICER

D. It estimates the QALEand ICER based on interventions and policy?

What is the most important component of cost effective analysis?

A. Effectiveness of treatment

B. Quality of Life Years

C. Life Expectancy

Question 8

Which of the following is not part of decision analysis

A. cost

B. probability

C. expected life expectancy

Question 9

Life expectancy refers to

A. the average number of years remaining for an individual or a group of people at a given age

B. the absolute age that a person is expected to die

D. the average number of years remaining for and individual or group of people within a country regardless of age.

Question 10

What is the purpose of a decision analysis model?

A. It can be used instead calculating the actual cost.

B. It helps to calculate the cost of an intervention.

C. Markov suggested it as the standard in making decisions regarding health outcomes.

D. It creates a simplified method of viewing all event that are possible.

Question 11

Decision analysis is based on the probability that an uncertain event will occur.

A. True

B. False

Question 12

The final value that is obtained on the decision analysis tree is known as the __________.

A. expected probability

B. the choice to evaluate

C. the independent variable

D. the dependent variable

Question 13

Markov Model can be used to calculate all of the following except_________.

A. Potential health outcome

B. Quality of health care over time

C. Cost of care

Question 14

What is another name/term for Markov Model?

A. QALY model

B. Transition model

C. Life-death model

D. Life expectancy model

Question 15

The Markov Model can be used to estimate life years lost, mortality and quality of life.

A. True

B. False

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