Quality Improvement Trends in Healthcare

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· Question 1

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Which group has little impact on quality in healthcare?

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Professional organizations

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Individual patients

· Question 2

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In recent years, what factor has made the focus on quality improvement efforts in ambulatory care easier?

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Openness to quality from staff

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Uptake of electronic health records (EHR) in the ambulatory care setting

· Question 3

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Why have health systems been slow to adopt electronic health records (EHR) despite their value in improving healthcare quality?

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Cost and complexity

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Cost and complexity

· Question 4

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Why have nursing homes been a significant focus of quality improvement efforts?

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Easy of access by quality improvement agencies

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The frailty and vulnerability of the population

· Question 5

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Quality measures have four primary uses. Identify the one that falls outside one of these uses.

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Basis for incentive payments to improve care

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Organizational marketing plans

· Question 6

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FMEA is a tool that has been applied in healthcare settings. What does it stand for?

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Failure mode and effects analysis

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Failure mode and effects analysis

· Question 7

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Which of the following has not been identified by researchers as a barrier to reporting errors?

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Lack of familiarity with reporting process

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Avoidance of the administrative hassle

· Question 8

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When is punitive action not necessarily appropriate?

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When a person knowingly takes an action that could cause harm

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When the result of the behavior leads to patient death

· Question 9

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What field of medicine has a low reporting rate of errors despite being a large portion of medical care delivered?

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Cardiologists

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Primary care

· Question 10

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What is an execution error?

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When a plan is correct but not carried out as intended

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When a plan is correct but not carried out as intended

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