Set With All Correct Answers Update
26\7 Graded A+| Passed
What group acts on the behalf of consumers to keep healthcare costs down?
- Ans--Insurance industry
The healthcare quality Triple Aim framework was developed by the National
Academy of Medicine.
True
False - Ans--False
What organization published Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health
System for the 21st Century? - Ans--Institute of Medicine
When desired results are achieved with minimal expenditure of resources,
the healthcare services are most accurately described as what? - Ans--
Cost-effective
Healthcare quality can never be achieved without reliability.
True
False - Ans--True
Which of the following best describes a reliable healthcare service? - Ans--
One that consistently performs as intended
Which of the following is one of the three broad aims of the National Quality
Strategy? - Ans--Affordable care
Which of the following healthcare dimensions was NOT mentioned by the
Committee on Quality of Health Care in America as an area that needed
improvement? - Ans--Convenience
Doctors often practice defensive medicine for the purpose of avoiding
malpractice liability.
, True
False - Ans--True
Which of the following is one aspect of the definition of healthcare quality? -
Ans--Consistent with current professional knowledge
What are the three primary quality management activities? - Ans--
Measurement, assessment, and improvement
Who is considered the father of statistical quality control? - Ans--Walter
Shewhart
What quality program is managed by the National Institute of Standards and
Technology in the US Commerce Department? - Ans--Baldrige National
Quality Program
What organization sponsored the first program to improve quality in US
hospitals? - Ans--American College of Surgeons
What is one of the core values found in the Baldrige healthcare criteria for
performance excellence? - Ans--Management by fact
What activity is done to achieve compliance with minimum quality standards
in a healthcare organization? - Ans--Quality assurance
The Medicare program's quality management requirements for healthcare
facilities are found in what regulations? - Ans--Conditions of Participation
Until the 1970s, healthcare quality activities were primarily based on which
management system? - Ans--Pre-Industrial Revolution craft model
What factors unique to healthcare delivery inhibit adoption of some
industrial quality improvement techniques? - Ans--Variable conditions and
behaviors of patients
In a high-reliability organization, there are fewer accidents than would be
expected.
True