Lecture 5 Flashcards
1
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What are three techniques for quality improvement?
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- statistical process control
- incident learning and root cause analysis
- failure mode and affect analysis
2
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What are quality measures?
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- quantitative description of how well you quality indicator achieved
3
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What is a quality indicator?
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- most appropriate treatment for patient diagnosis
4
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What is action limits?
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- degree results can vary before causing harm to patient
5
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What are tolerance levels?
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- define the boundary within which the process is considered operating normally
6
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What is failure mode and effect analysis
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- provides a rational means for identifying and prioritizing risk
- identifying all the failure modes that can occur in all steps of a process
7
Q
What are the three scroes assigned to each failure mode in FMEA?
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- severity
- probability of occurence
- probability that the failure would go undetected
8
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What is incident learning?
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- identification of problems in the care delivery process and the subsequent investigation of those problems with the aim of uncovering and addressing causal factors and latent condititions for error
9
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What is root cause analysis?
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- identify the underlying causes of system failure
- provides information needed to solve problems and address these failures
10
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What are the key factors of RCA?
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- reactive process
- takes place after the harm has been done
- deal with actual failures
- look backwards
11
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What are the key factors of FMEA?
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- pro-active
- aimed at predicting the adverse outcomes of various human and machine failures and system states
- deal with hypothetic failures
- look forward in time
12
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What is statistical process control?
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- an analytical decision-making tool that employs statistics to measure and monitor a system process
13
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What does SPC rely on?
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- control charts to track a data measure of interest such as pass rate of IMRT QA plans
14
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What is artifical intelligence?
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- is the use of technology to mimic human behaviour/perform tasks like a human approaches
15
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What is machine learning?
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- subset of AI which relies on statistical methods to enable technologies to learn without explicit programming
- program learns from experiences
