Question

30. What obstacle in PROM analysis deals with the fact that doctors and other professionals feel like they are being blamed for things not in their control?

1. Cognitive Barrier                b. Logistic Barrier                   c. Resource Barrier

31. Losing patients to follow up (re: PROM analysis) deals with which of the following barriers?

1. Logistic Barrier       b. Resource Barrier                c. Both                        d. Neither

32. What does the weekly M&M meeting at a hospital discuss?

1. Any patient that has died in the last week.
2. Any patient that has not improved (medically) in the last week.
3. Both
4. Neither

33. What is an example of clinical evidence?

1. Patient History                   b. Lab Results                        c. Diagnosis                d. ALL

34. What is the main purpose of JCAHO?

1. Analyzing PROMs                         c. Analyzing MD and RN credentials
2. Analyzing Lean Management        d. Analyzing process compliance

Answer 1

1. Cognitive barrier

This is because doctors and other professionals feel like they are being blamed for things not in their control due to their way of thinking and looking at things from their perspective which comes under cognitive way of thinking.

2. Both

Losing patients to follow up deals with both logistics and resource barriers because a patient can arrive late to the hospital either by delay due to traffic conditions which come under logistics or by lack of transportation or resource.

3. Both

Weekly M&M meeting at a hospital covers morbidity and mortality aspects which means that it discusses the died patients and unimproved patients during the meeting.

4. All

Clinical evidence means all the available evidence of a patient including his/her disease, medical records, reports etc and covers patient history, lab results, diagnosis etc.