HCM 340 Pre Test Questions All Solved
Correctly 2026-2027 Updated.
Rapid Cycle Improvement Process - Answer Continuous quality improvement method that can
accomplish targeted improvement goals more effectively and efficiently
Retrospective Data - Answer Looking at past records and do not follow up with patients like
prospective study
Assessment of quality of care is based on 3 functions of outcomes: - Answer 1. Management
2. Measurement
3. Monitoring
Marketing Role - Answer used to be: involves identifying product, price, promotion, and place
aspects of health care system's marketing plan; now: emphasis is placed on an integrated health
care system that is designed to provide health care services for specific populations
Attributes data - Answer counts of a characteristic or an event that may or may not occur Ex:
Mortality rates, %of population infected
Stratified Sampling - Answer used when populations consist of a number of clearly defined
subpopulations-- strata
Cluster Sampling - Answer individuals in populations found in natural groups
Multistage Sampling - Answer individuals in a population can commonly be defined in a chain
of command that looks like a pyramid
Prospective data - Answer looking at data during the study period and relates this to other
factors such as suspected risk or protection factors
Hospital total cost - Answer determined by 1st all costs directly attributed to a health service
are determined (direct cost) 2nd costs not associated with the health service must be quantified
and deducted from the overall hospital costs
5 stages of benchmarking - Answer 1. determine what to benchmark
2. form a benchmarking team
3. id benchmark partners
, 4. collect & analyze benchmarking info
5. take action
Benchmark/Benchmarking - Answer measurements that is used to evaluate the performance
of a specific health care provider relative to other providers
2 objectives for outcomes assessment - Answer 1. Establish effectiveness of care
2. to access quality of care
Outcomes monitoring - Answer use of info obtained from this in clinical decision making,
patient care management, and organization of health care services, with the goal of achieving
optimal patient outcomes
Best practice - Answer a service or process that has been improved and implemented to
produce superior outcomes
Marketing - Answer art and services of understanding how people make choices and how they
respond to their choices of designing methods to influence their choice selection
Randomization - Answer is the only method to ensure unbiased sample
DALYs (disability-adjusted life years) - Answer combines the effect of premature death and
disability into a single measure and this is equal to one year of healthy life that is lost due to
death or disability
Burden-of-disease analysis - Answer -useful measure of the mortality and morbidity in a
population
-combines effected of premature death & disability
Sensitivity analysis - Answer a technique used to determine how different values of an
independent variable impact a particular dependent variable under a given set of assumptions
QALYs (quality-adjusted life years) - Answer measure of health outcome weighted according to
the quality of life at a given point in time or during a specific period of time
Cost-utility analysis - Answer concerned with quality of health benefit resulting from health
care service and uses the measure of quality-adjusted life years
Correctly 2026-2027 Updated.
Rapid Cycle Improvement Process - Answer Continuous quality improvement method that can
accomplish targeted improvement goals more effectively and efficiently
Retrospective Data - Answer Looking at past records and do not follow up with patients like
prospective study
Assessment of quality of care is based on 3 functions of outcomes: - Answer 1. Management
2. Measurement
3. Monitoring
Marketing Role - Answer used to be: involves identifying product, price, promotion, and place
aspects of health care system's marketing plan; now: emphasis is placed on an integrated health
care system that is designed to provide health care services for specific populations
Attributes data - Answer counts of a characteristic or an event that may or may not occur Ex:
Mortality rates, %of population infected
Stratified Sampling - Answer used when populations consist of a number of clearly defined
subpopulations-- strata
Cluster Sampling - Answer individuals in populations found in natural groups
Multistage Sampling - Answer individuals in a population can commonly be defined in a chain
of command that looks like a pyramid
Prospective data - Answer looking at data during the study period and relates this to other
factors such as suspected risk or protection factors
Hospital total cost - Answer determined by 1st all costs directly attributed to a health service
are determined (direct cost) 2nd costs not associated with the health service must be quantified
and deducted from the overall hospital costs
5 stages of benchmarking - Answer 1. determine what to benchmark
2. form a benchmarking team
3. id benchmark partners
, 4. collect & analyze benchmarking info
5. take action
Benchmark/Benchmarking - Answer measurements that is used to evaluate the performance
of a specific health care provider relative to other providers
2 objectives for outcomes assessment - Answer 1. Establish effectiveness of care
2. to access quality of care
Outcomes monitoring - Answer use of info obtained from this in clinical decision making,
patient care management, and organization of health care services, with the goal of achieving
optimal patient outcomes
Best practice - Answer a service or process that has been improved and implemented to
produce superior outcomes
Marketing - Answer art and services of understanding how people make choices and how they
respond to their choices of designing methods to influence their choice selection
Randomization - Answer is the only method to ensure unbiased sample
DALYs (disability-adjusted life years) - Answer combines the effect of premature death and
disability into a single measure and this is equal to one year of healthy life that is lost due to
death or disability
Burden-of-disease analysis - Answer -useful measure of the mortality and morbidity in a
population
-combines effected of premature death & disability
Sensitivity analysis - Answer a technique used to determine how different values of an
independent variable impact a particular dependent variable under a given set of assumptions
QALYs (quality-adjusted life years) - Answer measure of health outcome weighted according to
the quality of life at a given point in time or during a specific period of time
Cost-utility analysis - Answer concerned with quality of health benefit resulting from health
care service and uses the measure of quality-adjusted life years
