Healthcare Quality Improvement and Risk Management
Complete Questions and Guide Answers
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1. CHAPTER 1
Answer:
2. The Joint Commission Standards
Answer: 1. providing leadership
2. improving organizational performance
3. information management
4. patient's rights
-quality of care and legal responsibilities to do no harm
3. Risk Management
Answer: an organized ettort to identify, assess, and reduce, where appropriate, risks to patients, visitors, statt, and
organizational assets
-a program designed to reduce the incidence of preventable accidents and injuries to minimize the financial loss to the institution should
injury or accident occurr
,4. risk
Answer: uncertainty about future events that may threaten the safety of patients, assets (people, property, financial,
and goodwill), and reputation of providers
5. Risk management process
Answer: 1. Risk Identification
2. Risk Analysis
3. Risk control/treatment
4. Risk financing
6. Risk identification
Answer: the collection of information about current and past patient care occurrences and other events that represent
potential loss to the institution
-examples
Answer: antitrust violation, breach of contract, casualty exposure, defamation, embezzlement, environmental dam- age, fraud and abuse
general liability, hazard substance exposure, professional malpractice, security violations, transportation liability, and worker's
compensation
7. Risk Analysis
Answer: evaluation of past experience and current exposure to eliminate or limit substantially the impact
of risk on cash flow, community image, and employee and medical statt morale
,8. Risk Control/Treatment
Answer: Organization's response to significant risk areas, as well as its ettort to limit the liability associated with incidents
that have occurred.
-bodily injuries
-liability losses
-property loss
-consequential losses
9. Risk Control Techniques
Answer: -risk acceptance organization doesn't purchase insurance because risk is unavoidable, reduced, or transferred
-exposure avoidance
lose service, personnel or equipment that will make risk likely
-loss prevention: training in areas where there are high loss
-loss reduction
: lowers risk due to proper documentation
-exposure segregation: narrow down to where the loss is happening
-contractual transfer
contract out services and the other organization will accept the liability
, 10. Risk Financing
Answer: techniques that provide for the funding of losses
-self insurance, commercial insurance, captive
11. Risk Management activities
Answer: -American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM)
-educated and trained on risks
-given all access to data
-risk manager designation
-organization has to be committed
-system for identifying, reviewing, and analyzing adverse outcomes
-necessary resources given
-share and integrate data program activities
-evaluate risk management
12. Property risks
Answer: structural damage, car accidents, technological obsolescence, theft, sabotage, production breakdown, and
consequential losses
13. Casualty/liability risks
Complete Questions and Guide Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. CHAPTER 1
Answer:
2. The Joint Commission Standards
Answer: 1. providing leadership
2. improving organizational performance
3. information management
4. patient's rights
-quality of care and legal responsibilities to do no harm
3. Risk Management
Answer: an organized ettort to identify, assess, and reduce, where appropriate, risks to patients, visitors, statt, and
organizational assets
-a program designed to reduce the incidence of preventable accidents and injuries to minimize the financial loss to the institution should
injury or accident occurr
,4. risk
Answer: uncertainty about future events that may threaten the safety of patients, assets (people, property, financial,
and goodwill), and reputation of providers
5. Risk management process
Answer: 1. Risk Identification
2. Risk Analysis
3. Risk control/treatment
4. Risk financing
6. Risk identification
Answer: the collection of information about current and past patient care occurrences and other events that represent
potential loss to the institution
-examples
Answer: antitrust violation, breach of contract, casualty exposure, defamation, embezzlement, environmental dam- age, fraud and abuse
general liability, hazard substance exposure, professional malpractice, security violations, transportation liability, and worker's
compensation
7. Risk Analysis
Answer: evaluation of past experience and current exposure to eliminate or limit substantially the impact
of risk on cash flow, community image, and employee and medical statt morale
,8. Risk Control/Treatment
Answer: Organization's response to significant risk areas, as well as its ettort to limit the liability associated with incidents
that have occurred.
-bodily injuries
-liability losses
-property loss
-consequential losses
9. Risk Control Techniques
Answer: -risk acceptance organization doesn't purchase insurance because risk is unavoidable, reduced, or transferred
-exposure avoidance
lose service, personnel or equipment that will make risk likely
-loss prevention: training in areas where there are high loss
-loss reduction
: lowers risk due to proper documentation
-exposure segregation: narrow down to where the loss is happening
-contractual transfer
contract out services and the other organization will accept the liability
, 10. Risk Financing
Answer: techniques that provide for the funding of losses
-self insurance, commercial insurance, captive
11. Risk Management activities
Answer: -American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM)
-educated and trained on risks
-given all access to data
-risk manager designation
-organization has to be committed
-system for identifying, reviewing, and analyzing adverse outcomes
-necessary resources given
-share and integrate data program activities
-evaluate risk management
12. Property risks
Answer: structural damage, car accidents, technological obsolescence, theft, sabotage, production breakdown, and
consequential losses
13. Casualty/liability risks
