"Underuse is evidence by the fact that many scientifically sound practices are not used as often they should be. For example, biannual mammography screening in woman ages 40 to 69 has been proven beneficial and yet is performed less than 75 percent of the time."
This is the categorization of:
A. Defects
B. Lack of professionalism in Medical field
C. Lack of care
D. Healthcare practice
TQC is excellence driven rather than defect driven-a system that integrates:
A. Quality development, quality improvement and quality maintenance
B. Quality improvement and quality maintenance
C. Quality development, quality improvement and quality assessment
D. Quality improvement and quality maintenance
The Baldrige criteria were originally developed and applied to business; however, in 1997, healthcare-specific criteria were created to help healthcare organizations address challenges such as focusing on core competencies, introducing new technologies, reducing costs, communicating and sharing information electronically new alliance with healthcare providers, and maintaining market advantage. The Baldrige healthcare criteria are built on the set of interrelated core values and concepts.
Which of the following is NOT out of those values and concepts?
A. Focus on the present
B. Valuing of staff and partners
C. Agility
D. Visionary leadership
During improvement in healthcare system, because of a combination of technical complexity, system
fragmentation, a tradition of autonomy, and hierarchical authority structures, overcoming the "daunting
barrier to creating the habits and beliefs of common purpose, teamwork and individual accountability"
necessary for spread and sustainability will require:
(Choose two.)
A. Continual focus
B. Commitment
C. Focus to maintain benchmark levels
D. Right time
Convenience sampling produces a biased sample that is basically a collection of anecdotes that cannot be applied generally to larger populations.
Convenience sampling is also known as:
A. Quota sampling
B. Judgment sampling
C. Expert sampling
D. Chunk sampling
Statistical analysis conducted with control charts is different from what some consider "traditional research" (e.g. hypothesis testing, development of p-values, design of randomized clinic trials). Traditional research is designed to compare the results at time one (e.g. the cholesterol levels of a group of middle-aged men) with the results at time two (typically months after the initial measure).
Research conducted in this manner is referred to as ___________________.
A. Static group comparison
B. Continuous distribution
C. SPC
D. None of these
Through ___________ the data collection staff can spot patient trends as they develop rather than receive the information after the patient have been discharged.
For instance, the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia sooner, or it may spot an increase in the rate of aspiration in stroke patients as it occurs.
A. Medical record review (Retrospective)
B. Prospective chart review
C. Data collection forms
D. Scanners
The components which support successful implementation of performance improvement programs and
attainment of project goals and objective include/s:
(Choose three.)
A. Leadership commitment
B. Establishment of performance improvement oversight entity
C. Establishment of partnership
D. Expected time frames
The separate services of Pharmacy and Nursing are having difficulty developing an action plan for medication errors. Pharmacy Services states that Nursing Services causes the majority of the problems related to errors, while Nursing Services states the opposite.
The quality professional's role in resolving this problem is to:
A. Provide them with directives on how to solve the problem
B. Facilitate discussion between the groups to enable them to assume ownership of their portions of the problem
C. Assign the task to an uninvolved manager
D. Refer the problem to the facility wide quality council
For example, a bathroom scale that always reads 185 pounds is reliable. Although the scale may be reliable and consistent, it is not valid if the person does not weigh 185 pounds.
So, in conventional use, the term validity refers to: (Choose two.)
A. The degree to which the measurement made by a interviews corresponds to some fair value
B. The degree to which the measurement made by a focus group corresponds to some true or real value
C. The extent to which an empirical measure accurately reflects the meaning of the concept under consideration
D. The degree to which the measurement made by a survey corresponds to some true or real value
