Under a Managed Care System, Primary Care Physicians

question 22

Multiple Choice

Under a managed care system, primary care physicians:

• A)can coordinate services offered by other providers such as drug treatment.
• B)have the right to refuse service to specific patients regardless of their insurance status.
• C)leave it to the families of people with psychological problems to find appropriate care.
• D)do not have the option of referring their patients to outside consultants.

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Definitions:

Population

The entire group of individuals or instances about whom the data is collected and which the statistical analysis is based upon.

Confidence Interval

A span of values, coming from sample observations, expected to include the value of a not-yet-identified population characteristic.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent data points in a statistical calculation that are free to vary.

T-Distribution

A probability distribution that arises when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small and the standard deviation is unknown.