CPHQ Patient Safety Principles 5

Question 1

Which patient safety initiative by WHO requires a surgical team pause immediately before skin incision to confirm patient, procedure, and site?

Accepted Answer

Time-out

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Sign-in

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Sign-out

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Debrief

Question 2

A hospital's incident reporting rate drops by 40% after disciplinary action is taken against a nurse who reported a medication error. This outcome illustrates the risk of:

Accepted Answer

Punitive reporting culture

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Alert fatigue

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Over-reporting bias

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Hindsight bias

Question 3

Which model categorizes care as having structure, process, and outcome components to evaluate quality and safety?

Accepted Answer

Donabedian Model

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Lean Model

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IHI Triple Aim

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PDSA Cycle

Question 4

Which strategy is MOST effective at preventing look-alike/sound-alike medication errors at the point of dispensing?

Accepted Answer

Tall man lettering on drug labels

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Limiting formulary choices

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Color-coding all medications

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Requiring verbal orders for high-risk drugs

Question 5

A healthcare organization wants to monitor patient safety proactively. Which measure is considered a 'leading' indicator?

Accepted Answer

Staff safety culture survey scores

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Hospital-acquired infection rate

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Mortality rate

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Average length of stay

Question 6

During a root cause analysis, the team asks 'Why?' repeatedly until a systemic root cause is identified. This technique is known as:

Accepted Answer

5 Whys

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Fishbone analysis

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Failure mode analysis

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Pareto analysis

Question 7

Which element of high-reliability organization (HRO) theory involves staff at all levels feeling empowered to stop a process when they detect a safety concern?

Accepted Answer

Deference to expertise

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Sensitivity to operations

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Preoccupation with failure

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Reluctance to simplify