Quality Improvement Methods
What is the term for a systematic, data-driven approach used to improve healthcare processes?
What is Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)?
This global initiative was launched by the World Health Organization to reduce surgical errors.
What is the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist?
This accreditation body sets standards for patient safety and quality in healthcare organizations.
What is the Joint Commission?
What is a common measurement used to track the rate of patient falls in hospitals?
What is falls per 1,000 patient days?
This type of healthcare team involves collaboration between different specialties to improve patient outcomes.
What is an interdisciplinary team?
This cycle includes Plan, Do, Study, and Act to test changes for improvement.
What is the PDSA cycle?
What is the practice of actively involving patients in their own care to prevent errors?
What is patient-centered care?
What is the name of the federal agency responsible for setting and enforcing safety regulations in the workplace, including healthcare?
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
Name the metric used to assess patient satisfaction with their hospital experience.
What is the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS)?
What communication tool is widely used to ensure clear and concise information handoffs between healthcare providers?
What is SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation)?
Name the method that focuses on reducing waste and improving efficiency, originating from manufacturing practices.
What is Lean?
This safety practice reduces the risk of infections from central lines in healthcare settings.
What is central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) prevention?
What legislation ensures healthcare facilities protect patient privacy and safeguard health information?
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
What is the term for data-driven tracking of healthcare performance over time?
What is performance benchmarking?
What practice encourages all team members to contribute to patient safety in a team-based care setting?
What is a culture of safety?
What is the primary goal of the Six Sigma method in quality improvement?
What is reducing variation and defects?
What process involves healthcare providers reviewing an incident to understand its root causes?
What is Root Cause Analysis (RCA)?
Name the initiative that ties hospital reimbursement to performance on quality measures.
What is Value-Based Purchasing (VBP)?
This type of data visualization is commonly used to track trends in healthcare metrics.
What is a run chart?
What is the term for regular meetings where healthcare teams discuss and review patient cases to improve care coordination?
What are care rounds?
Which quality improvement methodology combines Lean and Six Sigma principles for healthcare improvement?
What is Lean Six Sigma?
This concept ensures that every team member can stop a procedure if they notice a safety risk.
What is a "stop-the-line" policy?
This national initiative focuses on reporting healthcare-associated infections to monitor and improve patient safety.
What is the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)?
What quality metric is used to measure mortality rates for specific healthcare conditions like heart attacks and pneumonia?
What is the risk-adjusted mortality rate?
This type of simulation-based training helps teams improve their response to emergency situations.
What is team-based simulation training?