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QUESTION 83
The preferred culture in promoting patient safety

QUESTION 84
Knowledge about _______ is crucial to making valid judgments about quality of care using either process or outcome
measures. If we know that a given clinical intervention was undertaken in circumstances that match those, under
which the intervention has been shown to be efficacious, we can be confident, that the care was appropriate and, to
the extent of good quality.

QUESTION 85
The weight of scoring system is based on an emphasis Baldrige places on ___________ and an organization’s ability to demonstrate performance and improvement in the following areas:
Product and service outcomes

Customer-focused outcomes

Financial and market outcomes

Workforce-focused outcomes

Process effectiveness outcomes

Leadership outcomes

QUESTION 86
A hospital received 50 Incident reports describing falls that occurred within aone-monthperiod. Which of the following actions should be taken?

QUESTION 87
An alternative to a walk-through is a similar technique called ___________. A staff member asks permission to
accompany a patient through the visit and take notes on patients’ experience.

QUESTION 88
A healthcare quality professional has identified a gap In practice from regulatory requirements. The quality professional should

QUESTION 89
A hospital has been experiencing a significant Increaseinthe number of medication errors. The hospital’s governing board has adopted barcoding technology with electronic documentation at the point of care. Which of the following medication errors will most likely be reduced by the Implementation of this technology?

QUESTION 90
An organization recently completed an analysis of safety events from the last year. The majority of events were related to the following:
* provider order transcription errors (5%)
* wrong medication given to the patient (12%)
* adverse reaction related to medication allergies (7%)
* Inappropriate medication dose administered (10%)
* delayed antibiotic administration (10%)
Which of the following would be most helpful to enhance patient safety In this organization?

QUESTION 91
There is a story of an intensive care unit (ICU) at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz Country, California.
Dominican, a 379-bed community hospital, is part of the 41-hospital Catholic Healthcare West system. “We used to replace ventilator circuit for incubated patients daily because we thought this helped to prevent pneumonia,” explained Lee Vanderpool, vice president. “But the evidence shows that the more you interfere with that device, the more often you risk introducing infection. It turns out it is often better to leave it alone until it begins to become cloudy, or ‘gunky,’ as the no clinicians say.” The hospital staff learned an important lesson from this experience that:

QUESTION 92
A surgeon’s wound infection rate is 32%. Further examination of which of the following data will provide the most useful information in determining the cause of this surgeon’s infection rate?

QUESTION 93
“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:

QUESTION 94
The most effective data collection tools follow the _____________ of patient care and medical record documentation,
whether the data are collected retrospectively or prospectively.

QUESTION 95
_______________ is based on a simple principle-statistical probability. In other words, within a known population of size n, there will be a fixed probability of selecting any single element.

QUESTION 96
Systematic sampling is achieved by numbering or ordering each element in the population (e.g., time order,
alphabetical order, and medical order) and then selecting every kth element. The key point that most people ignore
when doing a systematic sample is that:

QUESTION 97
Which of the following processes is most cost-effective in preventing unnecessary resource consumption in the
hospital?

QUESTION 98
Overproduction
Inventory
Repairs/rejects
Motion
Processing
Waiting
Transport
These are the types of _____________ identified by Taiichi Ohno.

QUESTION 99
Which of the following are hardware components that would be included in a computerized management information
system?

QUESTION 100
A quality professionalneeds to select a new project from a list of requests. An organization has determined that new projects should focus on patient safety and cost-reduction. Which tool would help Identify the project that best meets these criteria?

QUESTION 101
A more proactive posture would be to develop an organization-wide approach to quality measurement that meets both internal and external demands.
This approach is: