Undertaken because a problem is not very clearly defined, allows the researcher to study the problem and gather information about the problem, may generate a hypothesis.
What is exploratory research?
100
Coordinates activities of the medical staff, acts on reports of other committees, makes recommendations on medical issues, recommends appointments, reappointments, and corrective action of the medical staff.
What is medical executive committee?
100
Event that resulted, or could have resulted, in life-threatening injuries to patients, medical staff, visitors, and employees. In-depth investigation required.
What is sentinel events?
100
Appropriate for displaying categorical data.
What is bar graphs?
100
Arithmetic average, commonly known as average.
What is mean?
200
Involves investigation and analysis of events in the past, does not focus solely on the past, but it also allows the researcher to apply a previous researcher's experiences and conclusions from their study into current professional practice.
What is Historical research?
200
Reviews appointments to medical staff, reviews reappointments (at least every 2 years), delineation of privileges, make recommendations to Executive Committee.
What is credentialing committee?
200
Checksheet, data abstracts, time ladders, statistical-based modeling technique, run chart, statistical process control chart.
What is performance improvement tools and techniques?
200
Provide a method for displaying data as component parts of a whole.
What is pie chart?
200
The midpoint of the distribution of values, obtained by arranging the numerical observations in ascending or descending order and then determining the value in the middle of the array.
What is median?
300
A process used to determine what has happened during a given activity.
What is evaluation research?
300
Case review and recommendations.
What is medical department?
300
Comparing organization's performance against external standards. Ex. compare data, measure improvements and determine ares needing improvement.
What is benchmarking?
300
Used to show data over time, allows for several variables to be plotted, may be referred to as a run chart in quality management studies.
What is line graphs?
300
The value that occurs with the highest frequency, the most typical.
What is mode?
400
Studies that try to discover a relationship between variables, the strength of the relationship is measured, this type of research only determines if there is a relationship between two or more variables.
What is correlational research.
400
Review and approve all matters relating to the use of medicaitons, review the medication formulary and make recommendations to the medical staff.
What is pharmacy and therapeutics committee?
400
Bar graph, histogram, scatter diagram, pareto chart.
What is analyzing process data?
400
A representation that is used to display frequency distributions for continuous numerical data (interval or ratio data), created from frequency tables.
What is histograms?
400
The difference between the largest and smallest values in a frequency distribution.
What is range?
500
Entails manipulation of a situation in some way in order to test a hypothesis, certain variables are kept constant and an independent or experimental variable is manipulated.
What is experimental and quasi-experimental research?
500
Minimize patient and employee risk, monitor equipment in use, evaluate new products, monitor infection rates.
What is infection control committee?
500
Lean, six sigma, lean six sigma, high reliability organizations.
What is robust process improvement methodologies?
500
Used to determine if there is a correlation, or a relationship, between two characteristics.
What is scatter diagram?
500
Measures that extent of a linear relationship between two variables and can be described as strong, moderate, or week and positive or negative. A positive relationship is direct, and a negative relationship is inverse.