Health Care Quality questions

Question: Reminder systems function best when

Answer Options:
a. they are at the point of service
b. they are intermittent
c. embedded in the workflow
d. Both A and C are correct
e. A, B and C are all correct

Answer: d. Both A and C are correct

Question: In most situations, the easiest type of quality measure to assess is

Answer Options:
a. structure
b. process
c. outcomes
d. status

Answer: a. structure

Question: 6-Sigma is a 5-step process for quality. The step that often involves a pilot step or project is

Answer Options:
Not listed explicitly as multiple choice in the chat.

Answer: Improve

Question: SCI and ERAS are examples of

Answer Options:
a. Bundled measures
b. Balancing measures
c. Structural measures
d. Off-setting measures

Answer: a. Bundled measures

Question: Donabedian was instrumental to the development of the Medical Quality movement. He is best known for

Answer Options:
a. espousing the structure, procedures and output paradigm for health care.
b. reporting on the status of field hospitals to the British War Ministry
c. introducing the structure, process and outcomes paradigm to health care.
d. assessing post operative mortality after surgery

Answer: c. introducing the structure, process and outcomes paradigm to health care.

Question: The Affordable Care Act of 2010 sought to

Answer Options:
a. create health insurance exchanges for individuals and small businesses
b. reduce the number of Americans who lack health insurance coverage
c. expand Medicaid coverage for low-income individuals and households
d. All of the above are correct

Answer: d. All of the above are correct

Question: Patients in the public mental health system die 25 years earlier than the general population.

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: Big Data is characterized by all of the following except

Answer Options:
a. high volume
b. reliable
c. unstructured
d. accurate

Answer: d. accurate

Question: FQHCs face all of the following challenges except

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a. workforce shortages
b. decreases in state funding
c. shifting demographic trends
d. changing disease burden

Answer: c. shifting demographic trends

Question: According to the Appropriateness Model utilized by the AHRQ, would the following process be judged as appropriate? People receiving the intervention = 36, People eligible for the intervention = 44

Answer Options:
a. Yes
b. No

Answer: a. Yes

Question: What proportion of children in the US are uninsured?

Answer Options:
a. approximately 12%
b. about 1 in 14
c. less than 2%
d. about 1 in 20

Answer: d. about 1 in 20

Question: According to the AHRQ, one of the 13 characteristics of a quality measure should be that “all healthcare providers are reporting the same data in the same way”. This is called

Answer Options:
a. evaluability
b. validity
c. credibility
d. standardization

Answer: d. standardization

Question: Dark Data refers to information that has not been approved by the patient.

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: False