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According to the Institute of Medicine, which of the following is NOT one of the domains of
quality care?
In a successful lean healthcare facility, the largest costs related to quality will be incurred by…
What is the best explanation for the relatively slow introduction of lean practices into medical
laboratories?
a. The variability and complexity of the samples in a laboratory is much higher than in
Which of the following is vastly different from the others?
In the perfect lean enterprise, delivery to the customer is…
A hospital-wide set of professional standards is important because it…
The process chain in a laboratory is particularly subject to…
Which of the following is NOT one of the typical questions in a force-field analysis?
Hospitals that implement computerized provider order entry (CPOE) almost always see a
decline in…
In a traditional meeting, the timekeeper and the minute-taker roles are…
When establishing a clinical-governance training program for the directorate, it is useful to…
The protocol for ordering a medication should be…
In a typical hospital, approximately what percentage of errors is reported?
During the periods with the highest incoming workload, a laboratory that has not implemented
lean practices is likely to have…
During a meeting, the facilitator must intervene several times to stop disputes between
participants. Is this appropriate?
One consequence of the implementation of Lean Six Sigma practices in a hospital will be…
The general intent of the PDSA cycle is to…
One characteristic of the SOAP model for medical records is…
After numerous staff meetings, a hospital administrator notices that one of his subordinates is
an excellent content leader. Which of the following would the subordinate be most likely to do?
As part of the implementation of lean practices, a laboratory categorizes activities as either
“value-add” or “non-value-add.” What should be done with “non-value-add” activities?
A hospital uses infusion pumps to deliver intravenous medications. However, these pumps
occasionally malfunction, so a nurse is assigned to periodically monitor their operation. Is this a
good strategy?
One way to create useful alignment in an organization is to…
If an at-risk patient is left unattended and has an adverse response to medication, this is known
as a(n)…
The minimum practical lead time for an analytical laboratory is…
Team paralysis is NOT a common result of…
A hospital’s automated pharmacy program will not fill a prescription unless the patient’s allergy
information has been entered. This is an example of…
One disadvantage of using separate scorecards for financial and customer satisfaction data is
that…
A hospital administrator wants to determine how changes in resource allocation would affect
total profit. By manipulating a variable, for instance the number of nurses assigned to a floor of the
hospital, the administrator can calculate the difference in profit. The administrator is performing
a…
A quality improvement team wants to construct a simple chart that will depict how
institutional spending and time are applied to a set of basic tasks. This chart will take the form of
a…
At present, the best way to improve the delivery of accurate and useful information about
medication would be to…
Which component of decision-making typically receives much less time than it deserves?
A health care facility has eleven wheelchairs. The likelihood that a wheelchair will be available
when needed can be calculated with a(n)…
At the beginning of a planning meeting, the participants are asked to make a list of their
priorities. These lists are then compiled, and an overall list of priorities is created. This process is
known as…
Employee incentive programs should emphasize…
Which of the following diagrams is appropriate for categorizing the needs of customers?
Root cause analyses most often reveal that mistakes are the result of…
Which of the following is the strongest basis for practice?
Which of the following is NOT one of the types of quality problems identified by the Institute of
Medicine’s National Roundtable on Health Care Quality?
In behavioural health, the most important sentinel event for root cause analysis is…
When is the best time to discuss the results of a meeting exit survey?
A simple but effective way for managers to obtain the support of team members is to…
When is the best time for chairing during a meeting?
A presentation on the basic structures and processes of clinical governance would be most
useful…
The definitive proof of the success of a regulation program is…
A meeting of department managers is discussing the catering service and menu for a hospital wide
special occasion. This decision should be made by…
Time available divided by time available and time required is the Six Sigma ratio for…
When prescriptions are being prepared, the labelling process begins at the same time as the
medication is being packaged. However, the labelling does not take as long as the packaging. This
difference in time does not add to the overall duration of the prescription-filling process. This is an
example of…
A behavioural health specialist notices a particularly high number of restraint deaths at a facility.
An analysis of the root causes of these events is most likely to indicate problems with…
A good meeting facilitator will…
Individual instruction on clinical governance is most effective when…
When establishing an incentive program for employees, the critical-to-quality parameters
should be…
The discharge department of a hospital is at optimal efficiency when it completes the discharge
process…
The first and most important step in a disclosure conversation is…
What are the three dimensions of quality in the most common framework for quality
assessment?
A top-level administrator is asked by a lower-level manager to lead a meeting of new
employees. What should the administrator do first?
Which of the following contracts would be most appropriate when remodelling an old wing of a
hospital?
A set of key measures that is used to judge progress is known as a(n)…
The most common source of the goal statement for a tree diagram is…
Over the past three decades, medical knowledge and technology have…
In healthcare, the most common adjustment to the traditional balanced scorecard is the…
One difference between evidence-based practice and research utilization is that…
In general, how many steps should a failure modes and effects analysis take in each direction?
Which of the following is NOT a goal of quality circles?
Which of the following is NOT a primary goal of lean enterprise?
A hospital experiences very infrequent problems with infusion equipment. The best statistical
distribution model for examining these errors would be the…
When assessing an emergency room, the best strategy for data collection is…
The most important characteristic of the controls in a case-control study is that they are…
One common problem in labs with low turnover is…
Frequent benchmarking is important in lean service because…
Which of the following groups is least likely to report errors?
Whenever possible, medication orders should be by…
A doctor fails to administer an indicated test, and the patient’s condition deteriorates to the
point that he must be admitted to an inpatient facility. This is an example of…
Which of the following does NOT contribute to evidence-based practice in healthcare?
What is one disadvantage of the visioning strategy for setting goals?
Before conducting a safety audit in an emergency department, an administrator must first
obtain…
During a meeting, the facilitator notices that one of the participants is getting agitated. After the
meeting, what would be the best question for the facilitator to ask the participant?
A hospital manager notices that a significant proportion of medication errors in the facility
involve the same two drugs. What is the most likely cause of this?
A whole systems approach to clinical governance is important because…
Because of a doctor’s poor handwriting, a prescription must be reworked before it leaves the
pharmacy. Which of the following is true?
A hospital manager finds that she is unable to effectively supervise all of the employees who
report directly to her. A reorganization of the hospital hierarchy should…
An adverse drug reaction…
In the lean enterprise model, what is the first step toward improving quality?
A hospital manager operates on the assumption that his employees will thrive when they are
given responsibility and the opportunity to perform well. The manager’s beliefs are aligned with…
When a hospital official notes that most errors are occurring at the “sharp end,” she means
that…
Which of the following procedures is NOT a good way to mitigate injury?
A root cause analysis of inpatient suicides would be most likely to discover problems with…
A hospital’s medication system is vast, and various elements of it fall within the purview of
several different departments. One important step towards reducing errors in this system is to…
According to JCAHO, the primary cause of wrong-site surgery errors is…
Which of the following is NOT mandatory in a generic dispensing program?
If administrators are given a list of the variables that predict mortality for patients with a given
condition, they should be able to…
Volatility in nursing workload is less likely to be reported than other sources of waste because…
One of the consequences of successful application of the theory of constraints is…
Most quality problems in healthcare are the result of…
The system limits of a process typically are based on the average and standard deviation of the…
It has been determined that a hospital’s blood transfusions are 99.7 percent error-free. Which
function can be used to determine the number of blood transfusions that are likely to be performed
before an error is made?
Which of the following is a reactive system?
If the load and the mix of a testing laboratory are levelled, the result will be…
Team members begin to reach consensus on the rules for operation during the stage known
as…
In the most efficient labs, each technician…
Why is it important to use customized benchmarks?
Which of the following is NOT one of the four elements of a health service microsystem?
What is one advantage of a voluntary error reporting system over a mandatory error reporting
system?
The main difference between the Taguchi model of service provision and the traditional model
is that…
When a hospital administration decides on strategy, this information should be shared with…
When conducting an audit of a large department, an administrator will likely apply the central
limit theorem. What does this mean?
A brief analysis of interventions for stroke is likely to be relatively unhelpful because…
It is easy to conduct a survey of medication-related errors because…
A delay in discharging patients is likely to cause recurrent bottlenecks in…
Which of the following conditions should a quality assessment program NOT examine?
Research suggests that the largest proportion of adverse events attributable to negligence occur
in the…
Which of the following is the source of the most medication errors?
One advantage of the kaizen approach to DMAIC implementation is that…
The practice of waiting for a certain number of samples before commencing a test run results
in…
Confronted by excessive WIP levels, many laboratories take the unhelpful step of…
Which of the following steps should be taken before QA activities begin?
Because the hospital is busy, an anaesthesiologist is given less time than usual to examine the
infusion device that will be delivering medication to a patient during surgery. The machine
malfunctions and the doctors on hand must work feverishly to save the patient’s life. This is an
example of…
As much as possible, medications should be standardized. However, when this is impossible, it
is important to…
A hospital uses the same labels for all of its prescriptions, but these labels do not fit on the
smallest container, so employees must cut and paste the labels in a special way in order to fill the
prescription. This is an example of…
Which of the following factors is NOT included in a calculation of risk priority number?
A program for assessing the validity of rolled throughput yield calculation is called…
One common model for administrative meetings is for small groups to discuss specific problems
and then join together in a…
Why would a hospital include an APACHE III score on an analysis of the infection rate?
One important driver of customer dissatisfaction in health care over the past decade has been…
Which of the following is most important?
In the optimal decision-making process, the most time will be devoted to…
In lean enterprise, which is the worst type of waste?
The frequency of errors in a particular process would best be displayed in a(n)…
An increase in chronic conditions is one consequence of…
The “four bads” associated with drug-related morbidity are…
Which of the following is NOT one of the basic components of an optimization model?
Which of the following is a characteristic of a high-performing group?
When developing quality standards, the best source of information is…
Which of the following is NOT one of the operational measurements emphasized by the theory
of constraints?
The most common and effective style of checklist for hospital employees is…
A meeting facilitator notices that the team has a tendency towards groupthink. What is one
structural way to correct this problem?
An administrative team is using an interrelationship digraph to examine the problem of
nursing workload volatility. What will the team do after making a list of the factors that influence
this issue?
To deal with volatile workloads, a laboratory creates a fast track for samples that need to be
processed immediately. One common result of this strategy is that…
Research suggests that people make fewer errors when they…
Hospitals pay special attention to blood transfusions because…
The main difference between a dashboard and a scorecard is that…