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Chapter 1 Pediatric Primary Care Exam Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
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is one level of care in the healthcare system. - correct answer ✅primary care primary care -subsequent levels involve increased ____________, additional ___________ and specialized __________? - correct answer ✅complexity, additional specialists and specialized equipment levels of care - correct answer ✅primary secondary tertiary quaternary primary care - correct answer ✅generalist care secondary care requires both - correct answer ✅requires specialized expertise
tertiary requires what - correct answer ✅both specialized expertise and specialized equipment Quaternary care requires highly specialized - correct answer ✅expertise and highly unusual or specialized equipment Primary Care - A different focus - correct answer ✅ Primary care is more - correct answer ✅person-centered than disease- centered Provides continuous, relationship-oriented care overtime, rather than being a series of limited disease-based interactions - correct answer ✅primary care
Primary care is not - correct answer ✅site-specific primary care It is often incorrectly used synonymously with - correct answer ✅outpatient or ambulatory care primary care While subsequent levels of care are typically associated with - correct answer ✅inpatient or acute care Primary Care Providers (PCPs) First contact point in the health system (not simply a point of entry) - correct answer ✅Central position: Primary Care Providers (PCPs)
Central position: Provides comprehensive, continuous, - correct answer ✅person-centered care Primary Care Providers (PCPs) Hub of coordination Integrates subsequent/ - correct answer ✅specialty care Types of PCPs - correct answer ✅PNPs, FNPs, Pediatricians, Family Medicine, Physician Assistants Serves as the primary interface between the child/family and the health system, except in the case of serious emergencies - correct answer ✅Pediatric PCP (P-PCP)
Within a community-based - correct answer ✅system ("medical neighborhood") Pediatric Medical Home At the core of the medical home is the PCP Provides high-quality, developmentally appropriate - correct answer ✅healthcare services Pediatric Medical Home At the core of the medical home is the PCP Which needs to continue uninterrupted as the child moves within/ and when transitioning from - correct answer ✅across the healthcare system,
pediatric to adult care Primary 'Care' vs. Primary 'Prevention' Levels of 'care' (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary) are sometimes confused with levels of ' - correct answer ✅disease prevention' (primary, secondary, tertiary) Primary 'Care' vs. Primary 'Prevention' Levels of 'disease prevention' are best understood in terms of the - correct answer ✅natural history of disease Primary 'Care' vs. Primary 'Prevention'
Preventive actions are taken before the onset of disease to remove the possibility that a disease - correct answer ✅ever occurs. Primary Prevention Two (2) subcategories: involves health maintenance and education efforts, including lifestyle changes/choices, nutrition, and maintenance of safe environments - correct answer ✅Health promotion Primary Prevention involves actions targeted at specific diseases, such as immunizations, antimalarial prophylaxis, and environmental modifications (such as fluoride) - correct answer ✅Specific protection Secondary Prevention
Secondary prevention efforts involve early diagnosis and - correct answer ✅prompt treatment secondary prevention The goal of secondary prevention efforts is to cure the disease at the _______ stage, _____disease onset and/or ________, and reduce or reverse the transmission of disease - correct answer ✅earliest stage, delay duration secondary prevention Focus is on efforts that: interrupt the disease process before it becomes ________or halt the disease process
As with primary prevention, there are two (2) subcategories: - correct answer ✅disability limitation rehabilitation focuses on early symptomatic disease • Correct anatomic and/or physiologic components of disease • Prevent/limit impairment or disability caused by the disease - correct answer ✅Disability limitation focuses on late symptomatic disease • Mitigate the ultimate effects of the disease • Prevent total social and/or functional disability • Restore persons with disabilities to a self-sufficient role in society - correct answer ✅• Rehabilitation Unique Issues in Pediatrics The Two-Generation or
Lifelong Impact of Protective and Adverse - correct answer ✅Dual Patient Childhood Experiences Unique Issues in Pediatrics Transition to Caring for Children and Youth With - correct answer ✅Adult Care Special Healthcare Needs The TwoGeneration or Dual Patient
Balancing the needs and wishes within the context of the dual patient can create difficult and challenging care decisions, especially as children's cognitive and executive function mature:
results from multiple risk and protective factors that operate throughout the lifespan, and the impact of those factors varies based on the - correct answer ✅life stage and context. Lifelong Impact of Protective & Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Early exposure to protective and adverse experiences can promote or disrupt - correct answer ✅healthy development. Lifelong Impact of Protective & Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Unique time period - First 1000 Days of Life seen as the brain's "___________" when the foundations of health, growth, and neurodevelopment across the life span are established - correct answer ✅window of opportunity"
low life potential (graduation rates, academic achievement, ____________ early death - correct answer ✅lost time from work) The scope of ACEs adverse experiences is evolving to include new factors - correct answer ✅(e.g., racism, weight stigma) Protective Factors Paralleling the work on ACES is the science that identifies/promotes protective factors which: Buffer_______ Build ________ - correct answer ✅adversity resilience
Protective Factors These efforts are particularly evident in the attachment and biobehavioral catch-up (ABC) interventions being introduced in - correct answer ✅foster care The PCP is well positioned to seek out, assess, and support protective factors at each Two examples: Safe, stable, and nurturing_____________(SSNRs) Exposure to nature and/or _________ - correct answer ✅well-child visit. relationships green space