FIPP 6 REVIEW QUIZZES QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What, in an organization, is the foundation for CQI? - Answer -Culture
Sentinel Indicator - Answer -a screen for a significant quality-related event that requires
further investigation
The two categories of causes of medication errors - Answer -people and systems
What may be helpful to managing the distractions and interruptions that often occur in a
busy practice site? - Answer -- Reducing the number of invalid, or low-priority, alerts
that display on the computer screen while entering information into the computer
- create a "no-interruption zone" for the pharmacist who is reviewing a prescription
- using checklists to keep track of key steps in a process
What kind of thinkers recognize that the most proximal cause of an event may have root
causes that remain if we only address the most proximal cause - Answer -Systems
thinkers
The most important part of preventing future medication errors is... - Answer -reporting
all errors when they occur
True or false: Current literature suggests that lawsuits from medication errors can be
prevented by avoiding disclosure of error or admitting fault to the patients and their
caregivers/families - Answer -False, it is best to be transparent about errors
Clinical decision support software provides pharmacists with information about drug-
drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, duplicate medications, and so on. What is
possible regarding these clinical decision alerts? - Answer -Too many alerts can fatigue
a pharmacist, desensitizing them to potentially useful information as they force past the
system hard and soft "stops"
The 5 rights for patients are... - Answer -right patient, right drug, right dose, right time,
right route
Should the letter u be used to abbreviate units? - Answer -No, write out units
What is true of a Just Culture? - Answer -Realizes that competent professionals make
errors; recognizes that individuals should not be held accountable for systems failures
that were beyond the control of the individual
The technicians in your hospital pharmacy are responsible for making sure that the
laminar airflow hood (for preparing IVs) is thoroughly sanitized at least once each shift.
Over the past week, the surge in IV orders and short staffing has led them to start
, drifting away from getting the hood sanitized each shift. This drift away from the
standard procedures is best viewed as... - Answer -At-risk behavior
For the situation with the hood not being sanitized, the type of response to this situation
by a manager within a Just Culture would be... - Answer -Coach the team to remind
them of the importance of sterilizing the hood every shift and discuss ways to make sure
that the task is getting done each shift
What is likely to be the strongest driver of the culture of a hospital?
- a pharmacy tech staying over her shift to help the next shift get the IV hood sterilized
- The director of Pharmacy writing a policy and procedure to delineate the cleaning
expectations - Answer -The pharmacy technician staying to help get the hood ready for
the next shift
What is true of population health? - Answer -- The components of population health are
clinical health, public health, and public policy
- Population health management seeks to engage patients and manage care to improve
effectiveness and outcomes
- addressing the determinants of health helps to modify the factors that cause and
exacerbate disease
What is the ability of a test to single out people that have disease? - Answer -Sensitivity
What type of bias occurs when the applied treatment for a disease or outcome appears
to be the cause of the outcome?
- Some pts may take NSAIDs to alleviate symptoms caused by heart failure before
being diagnosed. They may feel the NSAIDs caused the condition, even though that is
not the case - Answer -Protopathic bias
What term from a pharmacoeconomic article has to do with uncertainty in the
parameters estimate? - Answer -Monte Carlo Simulation
What type of cost does "missing work" represent? - Answer -Indirect cost
A hospital pharmacist designs a study in which two pharmacologic products will be
investigated in terms of their costs, as dollars, and their outcomes, as clinical cure rate.
Which pharmacoeconomic study is this? - Answer -Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA)
A pharmacist at a PBM is reviewing 2 new medications, with similar clinical outcomes,
for formulary inclusion, but only one can be included. What type of pharmacoeconomic
analysis assumes equal outcomes of two treatments, summing all costs in dollars in
order to compare two treatments? - Answer -Cost-minimization analysis
A pharmacoeconomic study demonstrates that a new medication has an incremental
cost of $1,000, and produces an incremental benefit of 0.1 QALYs. If the willingness to
What, in an organization, is the foundation for CQI? - Answer -Culture
Sentinel Indicator - Answer -a screen for a significant quality-related event that requires
further investigation
The two categories of causes of medication errors - Answer -people and systems
What may be helpful to managing the distractions and interruptions that often occur in a
busy practice site? - Answer -- Reducing the number of invalid, or low-priority, alerts
that display on the computer screen while entering information into the computer
- create a "no-interruption zone" for the pharmacist who is reviewing a prescription
- using checklists to keep track of key steps in a process
What kind of thinkers recognize that the most proximal cause of an event may have root
causes that remain if we only address the most proximal cause - Answer -Systems
thinkers
The most important part of preventing future medication errors is... - Answer -reporting
all errors when they occur
True or false: Current literature suggests that lawsuits from medication errors can be
prevented by avoiding disclosure of error or admitting fault to the patients and their
caregivers/families - Answer -False, it is best to be transparent about errors
Clinical decision support software provides pharmacists with information about drug-
drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, duplicate medications, and so on. What is
possible regarding these clinical decision alerts? - Answer -Too many alerts can fatigue
a pharmacist, desensitizing them to potentially useful information as they force past the
system hard and soft "stops"
The 5 rights for patients are... - Answer -right patient, right drug, right dose, right time,
right route
Should the letter u be used to abbreviate units? - Answer -No, write out units
What is true of a Just Culture? - Answer -Realizes that competent professionals make
errors; recognizes that individuals should not be held accountable for systems failures
that were beyond the control of the individual
The technicians in your hospital pharmacy are responsible for making sure that the
laminar airflow hood (for preparing IVs) is thoroughly sanitized at least once each shift.
Over the past week, the surge in IV orders and short staffing has led them to start
, drifting away from getting the hood sanitized each shift. This drift away from the
standard procedures is best viewed as... - Answer -At-risk behavior
For the situation with the hood not being sanitized, the type of response to this situation
by a manager within a Just Culture would be... - Answer -Coach the team to remind
them of the importance of sterilizing the hood every shift and discuss ways to make sure
that the task is getting done each shift
What is likely to be the strongest driver of the culture of a hospital?
- a pharmacy tech staying over her shift to help the next shift get the IV hood sterilized
- The director of Pharmacy writing a policy and procedure to delineate the cleaning
expectations - Answer -The pharmacy technician staying to help get the hood ready for
the next shift
What is true of population health? - Answer -- The components of population health are
clinical health, public health, and public policy
- Population health management seeks to engage patients and manage care to improve
effectiveness and outcomes
- addressing the determinants of health helps to modify the factors that cause and
exacerbate disease
What is the ability of a test to single out people that have disease? - Answer -Sensitivity
What type of bias occurs when the applied treatment for a disease or outcome appears
to be the cause of the outcome?
- Some pts may take NSAIDs to alleviate symptoms caused by heart failure before
being diagnosed. They may feel the NSAIDs caused the condition, even though that is
not the case - Answer -Protopathic bias
What term from a pharmacoeconomic article has to do with uncertainty in the
parameters estimate? - Answer -Monte Carlo Simulation
What type of cost does "missing work" represent? - Answer -Indirect cost
A hospital pharmacist designs a study in which two pharmacologic products will be
investigated in terms of their costs, as dollars, and their outcomes, as clinical cure rate.
Which pharmacoeconomic study is this? - Answer -Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA)
A pharmacist at a PBM is reviewing 2 new medications, with similar clinical outcomes,
for formulary inclusion, but only one can be included. What type of pharmacoeconomic
analysis assumes equal outcomes of two treatments, summing all costs in dollars in
order to compare two treatments? - Answer -Cost-minimization analysis
A pharmacoeconomic study demonstrates that a new medication has an incremental
cost of $1,000, and produces an incremental benefit of 0.1 QALYs. If the willingness to
