UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Healthcare Quality Definition - CORRECT ANSWER - Degree services increase desired
outcomes, aligned with professional knowledge.
IOM Six Aims of Healthcare Quality - CORRECT ANSWER - Safe, Effective, Patient
Centered, Timely, Efficient, Equitable
Abraham Flexnor - CORRECT ANSWER - Studied hospital outcomes for improvement,
part of quality theorists
Earnest Armory Codman - CORRECT ANSWER - Founded Hospital Standardization
program, Joint Commission
Walter Shewhart - CORRECT ANSWER - Introduced Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle,
scientific method principles
W. Edwards Deming - CORRECT ANSWER - Introduced statistical process in industrial
quality, 14 points of management
Joseph M Juran - CORRECT ANSWER - Introduced Total Quality Control, emphasized
organizational participation
Philip P Crosby - CORRECT ANSWER - Added financial consequences to quality
improvement principles
Quality Assurance - CORRECT ANSWER - Focuses on negative events, sentinel events,
aims for quality monitoring