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Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
What are the basic steps in a PI model?
Correct Answer: 1. Identify performance measures
2. Measure performance
3. Analyze and compare internal/external data
4. Identify improvement opportunity
5. Perform ongoing monitoring OR
1. Performance measures?
2. Customers for monitored process?
3. Customers' requirements?
4. Customers' requirements met?
Question 2.
What are most performance improvement models in nature?
Correct Answer: Cyclical
Question 3.
set of patient care characteristics that the JC and CMS have determined to reflect the
quality of care an organization can provide for important diagnoses.
Correct Answer: Core measures
Question 4.
The amount of financial resources consumed in the provision of healthcare services.
Correct Answer: Cost
Question 5.
In language of TJC the degree to which care is provided in the correct manner, given the
current state of knowledge to achieve the desired or projected outcomes of the individual.
Correct Answer: Effectiveness
Question 6.
In the language of TJC the relationship between outcomes (results of care) and the
resources' used to deliver care.
Correct Answer: Efficiency
Question 7.
The interrelated activities of HC organizations, including governance, managerial support
and clinical services that effect patient outcomes across departments and disciplines
within an integrated environment.
, Correct Answer: Process
Question 8.
A term commonly used in HC to refer to quality monitoring activities during the 70 & 80's
at which time it connoted a retrospective review of care provided with admonishment of
providers for substandard care.
Correct Answer: QA
Question 9.
Retrospective payment system
Correct Answer: HC providers are paid for services provided in the past, also
called a fee for services payment.
Question 10.
The foundation of caregiving, which includes buildings, equipment, technologies,
professional staff, and appropriate policies.
Correct Answer: Structure
Question 11.
A management philosophy developed in the mid 20th century by W. Edwards Deming
(1986) and others who encouraged industrial organizations to focus on the quality of their
products as their paramount mission.
Correct Answer: Total Quality Management:
Question 12.
Seen primarily in the public sector, a system in which purchasers hold providers of HC
accountable for both the costs of HC and its quality. In which private sector, pay for
performance programs are more common and base providers payments on performance
and incentives.
Correct Answer: Value based purchasing
Question 13.
The regular and frequent assessment of HC process and their outcomes and related costs.
Correct Answer: Continuous monitoring
Question 14.
The senior governing, administrative, and management groups of a healthcare
organizations that are responsible for setting the mission and overall strategic direction of
the organization.
Correct Answer: Leadership
Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
What are the basic steps in a PI model?
Correct Answer: 1. Identify performance measures
2. Measure performance
3. Analyze and compare internal/external data
4. Identify improvement opportunity
5. Perform ongoing monitoring OR
1. Performance measures?
2. Customers for monitored process?
3. Customers' requirements?
4. Customers' requirements met?
Question 2.
What are most performance improvement models in nature?
Correct Answer: Cyclical
Question 3.
set of patient care characteristics that the JC and CMS have determined to reflect the
quality of care an organization can provide for important diagnoses.
Correct Answer: Core measures
Question 4.
The amount of financial resources consumed in the provision of healthcare services.
Correct Answer: Cost
Question 5.
In language of TJC the degree to which care is provided in the correct manner, given the
current state of knowledge to achieve the desired or projected outcomes of the individual.
Correct Answer: Effectiveness
Question 6.
In the language of TJC the relationship between outcomes (results of care) and the
resources' used to deliver care.
Correct Answer: Efficiency
Question 7.
The interrelated activities of HC organizations, including governance, managerial support
and clinical services that effect patient outcomes across departments and disciplines
within an integrated environment.
, Correct Answer: Process
Question 8.
A term commonly used in HC to refer to quality monitoring activities during the 70 & 80's
at which time it connoted a retrospective review of care provided with admonishment of
providers for substandard care.
Correct Answer: QA
Question 9.
Retrospective payment system
Correct Answer: HC providers are paid for services provided in the past, also
called a fee for services payment.
Question 10.
The foundation of caregiving, which includes buildings, equipment, technologies,
professional staff, and appropriate policies.
Correct Answer: Structure
Question 11.
A management philosophy developed in the mid 20th century by W. Edwards Deming
(1986) and others who encouraged industrial organizations to focus on the quality of their
products as their paramount mission.
Correct Answer: Total Quality Management:
Question 12.
Seen primarily in the public sector, a system in which purchasers hold providers of HC
accountable for both the costs of HC and its quality. In which private sector, pay for
performance programs are more common and base providers payments on performance
and incentives.
Correct Answer: Value based purchasing
Question 13.
The regular and frequent assessment of HC process and their outcomes and related costs.
Correct Answer: Continuous monitoring
Question 14.
The senior governing, administrative, and management groups of a healthcare
organizations that are responsible for setting the mission and overall strategic direction of
the organization.
Correct Answer: Leadership
