CIIP END OF COURSE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SET A+
✔✔Justifying a PACS requires the ability to show that the decreased capital costs
outweigh the increased operating costs.a. Trueb. False - ✔✔False
✔✔A typical PACS project needs to have a positive return on investment after 2 years.
a. True
b. False - ✔✔False
✔✔A quality plan covers not only the implementation but also the production phase, i.e.
long after the project is implemented/completed.a. Trueb. False - ✔✔True
✔✔Breaking down a project into work packages through the Work Breakdown Structure
format helps to prevent the project from extending beyond the scheduled time.a. Trueb.
False - ✔✔True
✔✔Tangible project benefits are difficult to measure but are still important. a. True
b. False - ✔✔False
✔✔Quality Improvement and/or Quality Assurance measures are put into place in order
to:
Work with Dr. W. Edward Deming
Comply with FDA regulations
Implement Six Sigma
Look for opportunities for improvement and implement policies to achieve the goal -
✔✔Look for opportunities for improvement and implement policies to achieve the goal
✔✔Quality Assurance focuses on:
Processes
Opportunities
Strengths
,Six Sigma - ✔✔Processes
✔✔A popular Quality Improvement program is which of the following?Edward Deming's
program
ISO 9000
Quality System Rule
All of the above - ✔✔all of the above
✔✔GMP is a term that is used by whom?
Car manufacturers
Japanese auto industry
Medical manufacturers
ISO 9000 - ✔✔Medical manufatures
✔✔Quality Improvement consists of:
Adding resources
Process improvement
Adding equipment
Adding supplies - ✔✔Process Improvement
✔✔QI/QA involves which of the following steps:
Identify and analyze a process
Develop and eliminate steps
Increase resources
Decrease workload - ✔✔identify and analyze a process
✔✔Which of the following programs was originally implemented in order to keep defect
levels below 3.4 per million:
US FDA
Quality Assurance
Six Sigma
Quality System Rule - ✔✔Six Sigma
✔✔Peer review is typically used in Medical Imaging by radiologists for:
Professional Assessment
Patient Satisfaction
Patient Safety
Customer Satisfaction - ✔✔Professional agreement
✔✔A fishbone diagram can be used when:
There is a need to find a cause and effect to a process based problem
There is a need to find areas where employees need to be eliminated
There is a need to find areas where equipment is not working
, There is a need to find out which employee is not performing effectively - ✔✔There is a
need to find a cause and effect to process based problem
✔✔This is achieved when processes are standardized:
Professional Assessment
Process Improvement
Peer Review
Quality Inspection - ✔✔Process improvement
✔✔When looking at categories like problem finding, solution finding, and planning,
which tools can be used?
Repeat analysis
Image quality
Scatter Plots
PI - ✔✔Scatter plots
✔✔Which of the following areas might be assessed for QI/QA in a Medical Imaging
department?
Patient wait time
Exposure levels
Report turn-around time
All of the above - ✔✔all of the above
✔✔When looking at digital images that are not diagnostic, a QI/QA focus area is:
Image acquisition or image processing error
Patient movement
Radiologist report
Equipment type - ✔✔image acquisition or image processing error
✔✔Processes and procedures are put into place in order to monitor radiation exposure
when using digital acquisition equipment. This is done to monitor:
CAD
Turn-around time
Dose Creep
ER reports - ✔✔Dose cr33p
✔✔When data integrity is compromised, often patient information is missing from the
image header which is usually referred to as:
An off-line storage solution
Database management solution
Lossy compression
Broken Study - ✔✔Broken study
✔✔Managing image quality is an important QI/QA function to maintain:
SET A+
✔✔Justifying a PACS requires the ability to show that the decreased capital costs
outweigh the increased operating costs.a. Trueb. False - ✔✔False
✔✔A typical PACS project needs to have a positive return on investment after 2 years.
a. True
b. False - ✔✔False
✔✔A quality plan covers not only the implementation but also the production phase, i.e.
long after the project is implemented/completed.a. Trueb. False - ✔✔True
✔✔Breaking down a project into work packages through the Work Breakdown Structure
format helps to prevent the project from extending beyond the scheduled time.a. Trueb.
False - ✔✔True
✔✔Tangible project benefits are difficult to measure but are still important. a. True
b. False - ✔✔False
✔✔Quality Improvement and/or Quality Assurance measures are put into place in order
to:
Work with Dr. W. Edward Deming
Comply with FDA regulations
Implement Six Sigma
Look for opportunities for improvement and implement policies to achieve the goal -
✔✔Look for opportunities for improvement and implement policies to achieve the goal
✔✔Quality Assurance focuses on:
Processes
Opportunities
Strengths
,Six Sigma - ✔✔Processes
✔✔A popular Quality Improvement program is which of the following?Edward Deming's
program
ISO 9000
Quality System Rule
All of the above - ✔✔all of the above
✔✔GMP is a term that is used by whom?
Car manufacturers
Japanese auto industry
Medical manufacturers
ISO 9000 - ✔✔Medical manufatures
✔✔Quality Improvement consists of:
Adding resources
Process improvement
Adding equipment
Adding supplies - ✔✔Process Improvement
✔✔QI/QA involves which of the following steps:
Identify and analyze a process
Develop and eliminate steps
Increase resources
Decrease workload - ✔✔identify and analyze a process
✔✔Which of the following programs was originally implemented in order to keep defect
levels below 3.4 per million:
US FDA
Quality Assurance
Six Sigma
Quality System Rule - ✔✔Six Sigma
✔✔Peer review is typically used in Medical Imaging by radiologists for:
Professional Assessment
Patient Satisfaction
Patient Safety
Customer Satisfaction - ✔✔Professional agreement
✔✔A fishbone diagram can be used when:
There is a need to find a cause and effect to a process based problem
There is a need to find areas where employees need to be eliminated
There is a need to find areas where equipment is not working
, There is a need to find out which employee is not performing effectively - ✔✔There is a
need to find a cause and effect to process based problem
✔✔This is achieved when processes are standardized:
Professional Assessment
Process Improvement
Peer Review
Quality Inspection - ✔✔Process improvement
✔✔When looking at categories like problem finding, solution finding, and planning,
which tools can be used?
Repeat analysis
Image quality
Scatter Plots
PI - ✔✔Scatter plots
✔✔Which of the following areas might be assessed for QI/QA in a Medical Imaging
department?
Patient wait time
Exposure levels
Report turn-around time
All of the above - ✔✔all of the above
✔✔When looking at digital images that are not diagnostic, a QI/QA focus area is:
Image acquisition or image processing error
Patient movement
Radiologist report
Equipment type - ✔✔image acquisition or image processing error
✔✔Processes and procedures are put into place in order to monitor radiation exposure
when using digital acquisition equipment. This is done to monitor:
CAD
Turn-around time
Dose Creep
ER reports - ✔✔Dose cr33p
✔✔When data integrity is compromised, often patient information is missing from the
image header which is usually referred to as:
An off-line storage solution
Database management solution
Lossy compression
Broken Study - ✔✔Broken study
✔✔Managing image quality is an important QI/QA function to maintain:
