HCQM-Patient Safety Exam | Verified Exam Questions and Answers |
Latest Updated Study Material 2026
Question:
First organization developed expressly to improve safety for patients.
Answer:
Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation - founded 1985.
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Ellison Pierce
Answer:
Established the Committee on Patient Safety and
Risk Management in 1982; coined the term "patient safety", founded the Anesthesia Patient
Safety Foundation in 1985; delivered the Rovenstine Lecture in 1996.
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1996's Rovenstine Lecture (40 Years behind the Mask: Safety Revisited)
Answer:
Ellison Pierce described the beginning of anesthesiology's patient safety
movement
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1982 20/20's The Deep Sleep: 6000 will Die or Suffer Brain Damage
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Inspired Pierce's Rovenstine Lecture about patient safety
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After attending a workshop by Deming, Berwick realized he was misguided because he had been
Answer:
An inspector rather than a promoter of quality.
Question:
1988 Institute for Healthcare Improvement was founded by
Answer:
Don
, Berwick, Paul Batalden, and Gene Nelson. The institute focuses on all aspects of quality, but
their discovery of a modern approach to quality helped transform the patient safety movement.
Question:
Harvard Medical Practice Study I and II
Answer:
Published in 1991 by
the New England Journal of Medicine it had the results from two large studies of adverse
medical events and provided the evidence that significant numbers of patients are harmed by
medical treatment and a framework for understanding the types of harm they experience.
Question:
Harvard Medical Practice Study I
Answer:
30,000 Medical records from
1984 non psych hospitals in NYS were screened for adverse events (injury caused by medical
management rather than underlying disease and prolonged the hospitalization or produced a
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disability at the time of discharge) and negligence (care falling below the standard expected of
physicians in their community).
Harvard Medical Practice Study II
Answer:
Classified the injuries
described in Study I and the management errors that were responsible.
Question:
Results of Harvard Medical Study II
Answer:
Adverse events occurred in
3.7% of hospitalizations and 27.6% of the events were due to negligence. 70.5% gave rise to
disability lasting less than six months, 2.6% caused permanently disabling injuries and 13.6% led
to death. Unfortunately it did not lead to immediate change.
Question:
Lucian Leape
Latest Updated Study Material 2026
Question:
First organization developed expressly to improve safety for patients.
Answer:
Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation - founded 1985.
Question:
Ellison Pierce
Answer:
Established the Committee on Patient Safety and
Risk Management in 1982; coined the term "patient safety", founded the Anesthesia Patient
Safety Foundation in 1985; delivered the Rovenstine Lecture in 1996.
Question:
1996's Rovenstine Lecture (40 Years behind the Mask: Safety Revisited)
Answer:
Ellison Pierce described the beginning of anesthesiology's patient safety
movement
Question:
1982 20/20's The Deep Sleep: 6000 will Die or Suffer Brain Damage
Answer:
Inspired Pierce's Rovenstine Lecture about patient safety
Question:
After attending a workshop by Deming, Berwick realized he was misguided because he had been
Answer:
An inspector rather than a promoter of quality.
Question:
1988 Institute for Healthcare Improvement was founded by
Answer:
Don
, Berwick, Paul Batalden, and Gene Nelson. The institute focuses on all aspects of quality, but
their discovery of a modern approach to quality helped transform the patient safety movement.
Question:
Harvard Medical Practice Study I and II
Answer:
Published in 1991 by
the New England Journal of Medicine it had the results from two large studies of adverse
medical events and provided the evidence that significant numbers of patients are harmed by
medical treatment and a framework for understanding the types of harm they experience.
Question:
Harvard Medical Practice Study I
Answer:
30,000 Medical records from
1984 non psych hospitals in NYS were screened for adverse events (injury caused by medical
management rather than underlying disease and prolonged the hospitalization or produced a
Question:
disability at the time of discharge) and negligence (care falling below the standard expected of
physicians in their community).
Harvard Medical Practice Study II
Answer:
Classified the injuries
described in Study I and the management errors that were responsible.
Question:
Results of Harvard Medical Study II
Answer:
Adverse events occurred in
3.7% of hospitalizations and 27.6% of the events were due to negligence. 70.5% gave rise to
disability lasting less than six months, 2.6% caused permanently disabling injuries and 13.6% led
to death. Unfortunately it did not lead to immediate change.
Question:
Lucian Leape
