By Offering a Comprehensive Set of Healthcare Benefits to Its

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Multiple Choice

By offering a comprehensive set of healthcare benefits to its members, an HMO ensures that its members obtain quality, cost-effective, and appropriate medical care. Ways that an HMO provides comprehensive care include:

• A) coordinating care across a variety of benefits
• B) emphasizing preventive care by covering many preventive services either in full or with a small copayment
• C) offering its members access to wellness programs
• D) All of the above

Understand the role of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in cardiac muscle cells.

Understand the implications of antibiotic use in cardiac muscle and bacterial infection treatment.

Know the anatomy of the pericardial cavity and heart wall.

Differentiate between ions' roles in depolarization of pacemaker cells versus other cardiac cells.

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Definitions:

Lewy Body

Circular fibrous structure found in several neurocognitive disorders; forms within the cytoplasm of neurons and is thought to result from abnormal neurofilament metabolism.

Fibrous Structure

Refers to the composition or arrangement of fibrous tissues or materials, often relating to the physical makeup of biological entities or materials.

Cytoplasm

The gel-like substance inside a cell that surrounds the nucleus and is where most cellular activities occur.

Substantia Nigra

A region of the brain that plays an important role in reward, addiction, and movement; known for its high concentration of dopamine-producing neurons.