CMM CMM Patient Safety & Risk Management 3

Question 1

Which element is MOST critical when conducting a healthcare risk assessment?

Accepted Answer

Identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing risks based on likelihood and impact

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Calculating only the financial cost of potential claims

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Delegating all risk decisions to the legal department

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Focusing exclusively on clinical risks and ignoring operational risks

Question 2

Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), hospitals with emergency departments MUST:

Accepted Answer

Screen and stabilize any patient presenting to the ED regardless of ability to pay

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Provide free care to all uninsured patients regardless of condition

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Transfer all Medicaid patients to public hospitals

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Obtain insurance pre-authorization before providing emergency treatment

Question 3

A medical manager reviewing incident reports notices a cluster of medication errors on the night shift. The BEST response is to:

Accepted Answer

Conduct a process review of night-shift medication administration workflows

Answer

Discipline all night-shift nurses involved in errors

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Issue a memo reminding all staff to be more careful

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Increase documentation requirements for all shifts

Question 4

Credentialing and privileging of medical staff is PRIMARILY intended to:

Accepted Answer

Verify that practitioners are competent and qualified to perform specific clinical services

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Reduce physician compensation costs

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Streamline the hospital billing and coding process

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Ensure physicians comply with marketing guidelines

Question 5

Which accreditation standard requires hospitals to maintain a complete and accurate medical record for every patient?

Accepted Answer

The Joint Commission Record of Care standards

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Stark Law

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EMTALA

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OSHA bloodborne pathogen standards

Question 6

A medical manager implementing a 'time-out' procedure before surgical procedures is addressing which patient safety goal?

Accepted Answer

Preventing wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient errors

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Reducing hospital-acquired infections

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Improving medication reconciliation

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Reducing patient falls