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100

This industry (outside of healthcare) is often cited as having achieved high reliability. 

What is aviation? Alternates: military, energy.

100

This term is used to describe when employees feel safe to report patient safety risks and events. 

What is psychological safety?

100

This organization is the second most common entity to provide ASC accreditations. (most common is Joint Commission)

What is AAAHC?

100

Who was in a rock band in high school

Jeff Adams

100

Who got their future wife's number by putting in an IV for them while in the hospital

Jesse Yang

200

In healthcare RCAs, this percentage of events are caused by organizational weaknesses (systems) and not individual weaknesses. 

What is 80%

200

This evidenced-based leadership activity is recommended by the IHI to promote visiting the workplace and asking about safety. 

What are Safety Walk Rounds?

200

This number (out of 10) describes the frequency of patients harmed in ambulatory settings.

What is the number 4? 

(4 in 10 patients are harmed in ambulatory settings).

200

Who is a thrill seeker...cliff diving, rock climbing, sky diving etc.

Karen Seymore

200

During the pandemic, who did a 3-D print, painted and assembled a 5 foot long velociraptor skeleton

Christopher Valentine

300

These are two of the five Characteristics often attributed to High Reliability Organizations.

What is 1) preoccupation with failure, 2) reluctance to simplify interpretations, 3) sensitivity to operations, 4) commitment to resilience, 5) deference to expertise

300

This framework is used to evaluate episodes of human error and is considered balanced accountability. 

What is Just Culture?

300

This number of patient falls that happen each year at Optum Care clinics. (number to the nearest 100).

What is 1000?

300

Who lived in the Dominican Republic for 5 years

Elizabeth August

300

Who was once stalked by a serial killer

Laurent Adler

400

High Reliability Organizations can demonstrate this rate of defects (also called Six Sigma DPMO).

What is 3.4 defects per million?

400

Under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, this structure allows member organizations to share patient safety event information with additional legal protections from discovery. 

What is a Patient Safety Organization (PSO)?

400

These are the six domains of quality - as described by AHRQ and used by Dr. Dan Murrey to describe priorities of Clinical Differentiation.

What are: 1) Safety, 2) Effectiveness, 3) Patient Centered, 4) Timely, 5) Efficient, 6) Equitable.

400

Who is an art collector with an extensive array of African-American and Caribbean Art

Valerie Green-Amos