WEEK #1 "QC & QA" UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

WEEK #1 "QC & QA" UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. What does QA deal with?
Answer:
QA deals with people: addresses concerns with patient care and image interpretation.

Question:
2. What does QC deal with?
Answer:
Equipment; provides equipment performance evaluations and accurate diagnosis of equipment.

Question:
3. What are the 3 QA steps?
Answer:
Identifies problems, monitors problems, and resolves problems

Question:
4. What is QA program also referred to as ?
Answer:
(CQI) continuous quality improvement

Question:
5. What does TJC do?
Answer:
They accredit hospitals and promotes a 10 step monitoring and evaluation process for the QA model.

Question:
6. TJC 10 step QA program?
Answer:
1. assign responsibility
2.Delineate scope of care
3. Identify aspects of care
4.Identift outcomes that affect the aspects of care
5.establish limits of the scope of assessment
6. collect and organize data
7.evaluate care when outcomes are reached.
8.Take action to improve care
9.Asses and document actions
10.Communicate information to organization-wide quality assurance programs

Question:
7. The QC tests are dependent on the _____ of the equipment?

, Answer:
manufacturer

Question:
8. What tests will be performed for QC tests, and who does them?
Answer:
1.) daily tests, 2.) monthly tests, and 3.) annual tests - these are performed my the technologist and
physicists.

Question:
9. Three steps of QC?
Answer:
1. acceptance tests, 2. routine maintenance (preventative) , 3. error maintenance

Question:
10. Filtration- frequency
Answer:
Annually

Question:
11. filtration-tolerance?
Answer:
2.5mm Al

Question:
12. filtration performed?
Answer:
evaluates beam quality

Question:
13. collimation-frequency?
Answer:
semi-annually

Question:
14. Collimation - Tolerance
Answer:
+/- 2% of SID

Question:
15. Collimation performed?
Answer:
adequate collimation or light field

Question:
16. focal spot- frequemcy?