Quality assurance and improvements

Health care is always improving which of the following?

• Evidence based practice

• Research

• Personal Experiences

• Patient Preferences

As a healthcare provider, it is not essential that you work to provide the best experience for your patients.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It is essential

All experiences is static

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It is constantly evolving and requires ongoing evaluation.

In 1999, ____ and ____ people died each year due to preventable medical errors.

• 42,000

• 44,000

• 98,000

• 99,000

"To Err to Human" was made the medical community to evaluate the systems and practice of healthcare delivery to improve patient safety and develop better systems to reduce errors.

• True

• False

Is defined by the National Academy of Medicine as the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge

• Quality Care Plan

• Improvement Services

• Quality Improvement

• Continuous Quality Improvement

What is the framework used to systematically improve care and seeks to standardize processes and structure to reduce variation, achieve predictable results, and improve outcomes for patients, healthcare systems, and organizations?

• Quality Time

• Continuous Quality Improvement

• Quality Improvement

• Health care delivery

Quality improvement structures includes which of the following

• Technology

• Leadership

• Knowledge capital

• Human capital

• Lighting Capital

Is a tool for making "good decisions" defined as decisions that make it more likely to experience a good result and less likely to experience an adverse result that was snot foreseen or was not understood.

• Quality Measure

• Quantity Measure

• Selection Measure

• Goals

Select the example of a quality measure.

• Patient and families use ratings & recommendations to select high-performing clinicians

• Healthcare providers use surveys to assess their own performance

• Both are valid examples of quality measure.