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CPHQ Exam 7
CPHQ Exam 7
CPHQ Exam 7
A. financial impact
B. constancy of purpose
C. resistance to change
D. performance of individuals
A. control chart
B. fishbone diagram
C. force field analysis
D. Pareto chart analysis
In the process of strategic planning, an organization makes
decisions about the future. A basic component of the
planning process is to
A. require staff to sign that they have read and understood the
falls policy.
B. use an educator to teach falls prevention.
C. share unit-specific data on falls.
D. conduct a medication review of patients who have fallen.
A. Laissez faire
B. Democratic
C. Participatory
D. Autocratic
A radiology department regularly monitors x-ray
repeat/reject, timeliness of report dictation, and patient
waiting times. What component is missing in this
department's ongoing evaluation program?
a. Appropriateness review.
b. Process evaluation.
c. Quality control.
d. Documentation analysis
A. More complex
B. More branched
C. More simple
D. More dependent on experience of staff
Situation – Background – Assessment - Recommendation
(SBAR) is a:
a- Credentialing
b- Peer review
c- Privilege delineation
d- Practitioner profile
Organizational leaders can best demonstrate commitment to
a new quality improvement initiative by
A. mortality rate.
B. average LOS.
C. medication dispensing rate.
D. lab specimen.
A. medical peers.
B. JCAHO standards.
C. jury of civilian peers.
D. tort law.
(New) drug with good outcome but high side effect,
physician and pharmacist decided to add it to drug formula
depending on which study :
A. Random
B. Stratified
C. Prospective
D. Retrospective
A- Measurement
B- Observation
C- Correlation
D- Interviewing
A. medical staff.
B. governing body.
C. ancillary departments.
D. organization's systems.
Timeliness and compliance of documentation were discussed
at a multidisciplinary team meeting. To evaluate the
effectiveness of the team's action plan, which of the following
will provide the most useful information?
A. physician attendance
B. number of complaints
C. frequency of meetings
D. medical record review
A. solve problems.
B. make more money.
C. gain respect of peers.
D. achieve upward mobility.
Which of the following is the best example of use of human
factors engineering?
A. diabetes
B. total knee replacement
C. heart failure
D. gastroenteritis
Which of the following adverse events is NOT considered a
sentinel event?
A. bar chart
B. scatter diagram
C. Pareto chart
D. line graph
A. raw numbers.
B. equal numbers
C. reported monthly.
D. severity adjusted.
Failure modes can be prioritized by calculating the
criticality index. Which of the following three categories are
normally used to calculate a criticality index?
A. quality manager
B. team leader
C. facilitator
D. recorder
A physician complains to a healthcare quality professional
that the nursing staff did not strictly follow orders for a
patient. The physician requests that the quality professional
speak with the nurse manager. To facilitate improved
communication, the quality professional should
A. affinity diagram
B. prioritization matrix
C. flow chart
D. histogram