QUESTION:
1

“
Underuse is evidence by the fact that many scientifically sound practices are not used as

often they should be, For example, biannual mammography screening in woman ages 40

to 69 has been proven beneficial and yet is performed less than 75 percent of the time.”

This is the categorization of:

A. Defects

B. La of professionalism in Medical field

C. La of care

D. Healthcare practice

Answer:
A

QUESTION:
2

__________ is a term applied when the proper clinical car process is not executed

appropriately, such as giving the wrong drug to a patient or incorrectly administering the

correct drug.

A. Underuse

B. Overuse

C. Misuse

D. Illegal use

Answer:
C

QUESTION:
3

Crossing the Quality Chasm provided a blueprint for the future that classified and unified

the components of quality through six aims for improvement, chain of effects, and simple

rules for redesign of healthcare. The six aims for improvement, viewed also six

dimensions of quality. Which of the following is NOT out of those dimensions?

A. Safe

B. Care centered

C. Efficient

D. Effective

Answer:
B


QUESTION:
4

______________ can be measured by how well evidence-based practices are followed,

such as the percentage of time diabetic patients receive all recommended care at each

doctor visit, the percentage of hospital-acquired infections, or the percentage of patients

who develop pressure ulcers (bed sores) while in the nursing home.

A. Safe care

B. Equitable care

C. Effective care

D. Timely care

Answer:
C

QUESTION:
5

Today’s patients’ perception of the quality of our healthcare system is not favorable. In

healthcare,
quality is household word that evokes great emotion, including:

A. Frustration and despair, exhibited by patients who experience healthcare services

firsthand or family members who observe the care of their loved ones

B. Anxiety over the ever-increasing costs and complexities of care

C. Patient centered measures

D. Timely care that may be experienced in terms of performance of services

Answer:
A, B

QUESTION:
6

There is a story of an intensive care unit (ICU) at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz

Country, California. Dominican, a 379-bed community hospital, is part of the 41-hospital

Catholic Healthcare West system. “We used to replace ventilator circuit for incubated

patients daily because we thought this helped to prevent pneumonia,” explained Lee

Vanderpool, vice president. “”But the evidence shows that the more you interfere with

that device, the more often you risk introducing infection. It turns out it is often better to

leave it alone until it begins to become cloudy, or ‘gunky,’ as the nonclinicians say.” The

hospital staff learned an important lesson from this experience that:

A. Evidence is more powerful than intuition

B. Intuition is more powerful than evidence

C. Efforts improve mortality rate

D. Introduction f a new protocol, or any new idea, involves education


Answer:
A