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QA #2 Flashcards

1
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What are instruments or tools used to gather information

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Measures

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What is any type of measurement used to gauge a quantifiable component of performance.

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Metric

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What is the way in which an individual, a group, or an organization carries out or accomplishes its important functions and processes.

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Performance

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What is a tool that is usually used in the form of a number or statistic?

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Measurement

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The numbers are known as ________ or ________

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performance measures or quality indicators

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A measure expressed as a percentage is generally _____ useful than a measure expressed as an absolute number

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More

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What clearly communicates a measure’s prevalence in a population?

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A percentage

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What compares two things?

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Ratio

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What must have a denominator and numerator?

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An average

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Can averages be misleading?

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Yes, because there could be outliers

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T/F

You should exclude outliers when calculating an average.

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True

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12
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Why should outliers be examined separately?

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To figure out the root causes

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What are four good characteristics of measurements?

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Accuracy, usefulness, east to interpret, and consistently reported

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What is used to judge the adequacy of the environment (physical and organizational resources) that supports healthcare delivery

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Structure Measures

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What is used to judge whether patient care and support functions are properly performed

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Process Measures

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16
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What is used to judge the results of patient care and support functions

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Outcome Measures

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17
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What is used to judge “whether something that should happen in a health care setting actually happened or how often it happened” (AHRQ 2016)

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Patient Experience Measures

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18
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Healthcare organizations use two tiers of measures to evaluate performance. What are they?

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  • System level measure

- Activity level measure

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19
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What measures overall performance of processes and activities?

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System Level

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20
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What measures individual process or activity performance

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Activity Level

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Using a combination of system and activity allows a healthcare organization to do what?

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  • Judge whether overall performance goals are being met

- Identify where frontline improvements may be needed

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22
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What two things guide the different level measures use by healthcare organizations for quality management?

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External influence & Internal Influence

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23
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_________ is government regulations, accreditation standards, purchaser requirements

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External Influence

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_______ is the organization’s strategic priorities

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Internal Influence

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25
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What is used to determine whether clinicians are making the right patient management choices?

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Process Measures

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What are used to evaluate the results of those choices

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Outcome Measures

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27
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Outcome and Process Measures are used in decision-making processes by who?

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Physicians and other clinicians

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  1. Identify the topic
  2. Develop the measure
  3. Design the data collection system
    What are these steps for?
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The process for measure construction

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29
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Clinical decision-making measures are primarily ___________ process measures

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Evidence-based

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30
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What are data that describes the extent to which current best evidence is used in making decisions about patient care.

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Evidence-based measures

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31
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Determining what you want to know is known as what?

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Identifying the topic of interest

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32
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Defining the measures that will be used to answer the questions is known as what?

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Developing the measure

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33
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Ensuring that useful and accurate performance information is gathered, valid and reliable data sources must be identified is known as what?

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Designing the data collection system

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34
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A _____ data source contains the correct information

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Valid

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35
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A ______ data source consistently contains the information

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Reliable

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36
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What is representative portion of a larger group (the population)?

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Sample

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37
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What is a measure is free from random error and yields consistent results regardless of the individuals gathering the data?

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Interrater Reliability

38
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What are frameworks for displaying system-level performance measures

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Balanced Scorecards

39
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T/F
Components of structured performance management systems that align an organization’s vision and mission with operational objectives

40
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What are the categories of scorecards?

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  • Financial
  • Customer
  • Internal business Process
  • Learning and growing
41
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The assessment phase involves what 3 activities?

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  • Displaying measurement data
  • Comparing actual performance with expectations
  • Determining whether action is needed
42
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What is a measure of the middle or expected center value of a dataset. The most common measures of central tendency are the arithmetic mean, the median, and the mode

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Central Tendency

43
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T/F
Pareto charts allow organizations to prioritize improvement efforts on the “vital most” sources of problems and not be distracted by those of lesser importance.

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False- vital few

44
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_________ should be tied to a pre-defined goal or expectation.

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Performance Measures

45
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________ of measurement results should be associated with goals and expectation

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Interpretation

46
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_______ without defined performance expectations does not contribute to quality improvement.

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Measurements

47
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Performance targets may be established based on what three things?

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  1. Opinion
  2. Criteria
  3. Performance comparison and Benchmarking
48
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______ subjective belief regarding good performance

49
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______ appropriate standards, rules, or principles developed through clinical practice guidelines, consensus statements, and position papers

50
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What does SPC stand for?

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Statistical Process Control

51
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What allows the organizations to highlight performance variations and control performance.

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Statistical Process Control

52
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T/F
Statistical Process Control are primarily based on the importance of increasing process variation to consistently achieve desired results over time.

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False- reducing

53
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Performance stability is evaluated by determining the amount of variation is _____ or ______

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Stable or Unstable

54
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____ means in a state of statistical control

55
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_____ means out of statistical control

56
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Method for analyzing performance problems and enacting improvements to ensure good performance.

57
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Analyzing the performance of various processes and improving them repeatedly to achieve quality objectives.

58
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Steady, incremental improvement in the organization’s overall performance

59
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Ongoing improvement of processes as a way to improve the quality of the outputs.

60
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Performance improvment shuld be ______

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Systematic

61
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What does PDS(C)A stand for?

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  • Plan
  • Do
  • Study (Check)
  • Act
62
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What does FOCUS stand for?

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  • Find
  • Organize
  • Clarify
  • Understand
  • Select
63
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Choose PDS(C)A
\_\_\_\_\_ the change by studying the process and determine ways to measure success
64
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Choose PDS(C)A
\_\_\_\_ the change on a small scale
65
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Choose PDS(C)A
\_\_\_\_\_ the data to determine whether the change produced the desired improvements
66
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Choose PDS(C)A
\_\_\_\_ to maintain the gains
67
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Choose FOCUS

_____ a process that needs improvement

68
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Choose FOCUS

_____ a team of people knowledgeable about the process

69
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Choose FOCUS

______ the current process and the changes needed to achieve the improvement

70
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Choose FOCUS

_____ the causes of variation by measuring performance at various steps in the process

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Understand

71
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Choose FOCUS

_____ actions needed to improve the process

72
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What is the average amount of weeks per improvement cycle?

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Varies around 6 weeks

73
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T/F
The rapid cycle improvement includes several big process changes and careful measurement of those changes to achieve an improvement goal

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False- Small processes

74
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T/F the rapid cycle improvement is an accelerated method of collecting and analyzing data and making changes based on that analysis

75
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What does FADE stand for?

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  • Focus
  • Analyze
  • Develop
  • Execute
76
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Choose FADE

  • Choose a problem

- Write a statement about the problem

77
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Choose FADE

  • Learn more about the problem

- Gather performance data

78
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Choose FADE

  • Develop a solution for the problem

- Develop an implementation plan

79
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Choose FADE

  • Implement the plan
  • Monitor results
  • Adjust the plan as needed
80
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What are the 8 wastes?

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  1. Defects
  2. Overprocessing
  3. Waiting
  4. Non-utilized Talents
  5. Transportation
  6. Inventory
  7. Motion
  8. Extra Processing
81
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What are the 5S?

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Sort, Sustain, Scrub, Standardize, and Straighten

82
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What is a special type of visual control used to indicate the need for movement of materials or patients?

83
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What are these steps an example of?

  1. Defining the mistake to be prevented
  2. Determining the root cause of the mistake
  3. Develop a device or method to prevent the mistake or make it easier to identify and correct
A

Mistake Proofing

84
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What is a special type of process map that illustrates the system perspective of an activity

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Value Stream Map

85
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Value Stream Mapping identifies what?

A

Value-adding vs Non-value adding steps and related measurements

86
Q

What is a simple and nonverbal way to relay information to others?

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Visual Control

87
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What does DMAIC stand for?

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  • Define
  • Measure
  • Analyze
  • Improve
  • Control
88
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Define _______

A

Define the problem

89
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Measure ______

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Measure key aspect of the process

90
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Analyze ____

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Analyze the data

91
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Improve _____

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Improve the system

92
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Control _____

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Control and sustain the improvement

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