Professional Development Exam questions with correct answers

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act CORRECT ANSWER health care reform bill passed by Congress on March 23, 2010 Quality managment CORRECT ANSWER preventive approach designed to address problems before them become a crisis Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (hint= 2) CORRECT ANSWER 1. mission= improve the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare 2. they fund projects that address three quality indicators: prevention, quality and safety Leapfrog Group (hint= 3) CORRECT ANSWER 1. consortium of public and private purchasers who're established to reduce preventable medical mistakes 2. they addresses issues of quality by rewarding health care organizations that demonstrate quality outcome measures 3. quality indicators they focus on include: ICU staffing, electronic medication ordering systems and the use of higher performing hospitals for high-risk procedures Benchmarking CORRECT ANSWER compares an organization's data c similar organizations (different from the Leapfrog Group in that it compares internal measures across comparable units)