A facility plans to provide a new specialty. Which of the following will best provide information on the effectiveness of the specialty?
Which of the following is the most proactive approach to quality improvement?
Following the formation of a team, the success of the project will be most highly influenced by:
Physician and nursing director compensation for a busy emergency department is tied to aggressive door-to-disposition times. Staff workarounds save time but have increased the potential for errors. Which of the following best describes this situation?
A newpediatric psychiatric unit will open in one year. The utilization coordinator is responsible for developing the utilization management program. The program's success will depend on which of the following factors?
Which of the following statements most accurately describes health literacy?
The tool used to graphically rank causes from most significant to least significant by using a vertical bar graph is known as a
Pharmacy staff have informed a healthcare quality professional that use of a particularly expensive drug has been increasing over the past six months. Which of the following is the quality professional’s next best step?
Integration of quality principles into an organizational culture is important because these principles:
Which of the following demonstrates interrater reliability and construct validity for an instrument designed to capture data for a publicly reported measure set?
Option
Interrater Reliability
Construct Validity
A
Two or more abstractors enter identical responses when reviewing the same record.
The tool measures the quality of care which the measure developers intended to measure.
B
Trained data collectors can reliably predict results after reviewing a random sample of records.
The tool includes data elements that measure the aspects of quality which are important to the public.
C
Concordance between process and outcome measures can be accurately estimated by the measure developers.
The instrument enables statistically valid inferences to be drawn about the quality of care delivered.
D
The design of the instrument minimizes falsified answers and other data entry errors.
The instrument captures variations in care processes across the population.
A root cause analysts (RCA) was conducted tor an event related to a delayed high-priority alarm response. Alarm fatigue was determined to be a root cause. Which of the following Is the most appropriate first Intervention?
What tool displays performance outside of expected values to merit a deeper analysis?
A performance measure for Infection control such as the number of primary blood stream Infections per 1000 central line days Is an example of a
Which of the following is required for the successful development of clinical pathways?
Which of the following is an example of improving primary prevention strategies?
