Midterm Exam - Quality and Performance Improvement in Healthcare (Ch 1-14

A facility quality indicator profile shows what proportion of a long-term care facility's residents have deficits in each area of assessment during a reporting period. Question options: True False - True A family member of a patient is walking through the hall in the hospital and slips and falls on a recently mopped floor. A nurse observes the fall and helps the family member. This nurse should report this event to the risk manager using which of the following? Question options: failure mode and effect analysis root cause analysis cause and effect diagram incident report - incident report A multidisciplinary outline of anticipated care within an appropriate time frame to aid a patient in moving progressively through a clinical experience that ends in a positive outcome is called a ________. Question options: critical pathway care plan care assessment continuum of care pathway - critical pathway A patient is transferred from the critical access hospital (CAH) to the university medical center. The CAH sent a list of her current medications with the transfer documents. This list is then compared to the physician's admitting orders at the university hospital for consistency in order to provide continuity of care. The process is called _____