Which of the following statements relating to healthcare utlization is false?

The fact that healthcare services cannot be inventoried and produced in advance, which of the following characteristics of a service is highlighted? 

USF’s Mascot is:

Choose the most appropriate culture media for the isolation of Bordetella pertussis:

Only unfavorable variances should be investigated.

[20pts] Find the general solution of y”+y=t sin(t) Note: You must show all your work to deserve the full credit assigned to any question.

A small, gram-negative coccobacillus is isolated from a lymph node aspirate of a hunter with ulceroglandular symptoms after handling wild rabbits. The organism grows poorly on standard media, but appears after 48 hours on cysteine-enriched chocolate agar. The organism is oxidase negative and provides a weak postive catalase reaction. The technologist presumptively identifies the isolate as Francisella tularensis.  What is the next best step?

Which of the following statements regarding healthcare consumer behavior is false?

Which healthcare coding system relates exclusively to procedures and services performed by physicians?

A child presents with an infected finger after having been bitten by his pet cat.  The culture of the wound grew a pure culture of gram negative the organism shown below on gram stain.    Additional characteristics of this organism include: Indole – positive Catalase – positive Oxidase-positive Urease-negative No Growth on MAC The most likely identification is which organism?