Quality Assurance and Improvement Flashcards
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A rural doctor wants to assess whether a change in the wound care protocol actually improved healing rates. The most appropriate statistical tool for comparing outcomes before and after the change is:
Answer: Statistical Process Control (SPC) chart
SPC charts distinguish between common cause and special cause variation over time, making them ideal for evaluating improvement.
A patient safety incident involving wrong-site surgery should be classified under the Australian Open Disclosure Framework as a:
Answer: Sentinel event requiring mandatory open disclosure and systemic review
Wrong-site surgery is a sentinel event requiring open disclosure, apology, and thorough systemic review.
Which of the following BEST describes 'high reliability organisations' (HROs) in healthcare?
Answer: Organisations that maintain safe operations despite high complexity by anticipating and recovering from failures
HROs operate in complex, high-risk environments and maintain safety through preoccupation with failure, deference to expertise, and resilience.
When conducting a morbidity and mortality (M&M) meeting in a rural hospital, the PRIMARY purpose is:
Answer: Identify system improvements to prevent future similar events
M&M meetings are educational forums aimed at learning from adverse events to improve systems and future care.
Under RACGP Standards for General Practices (5th edition), which criterion relates to staff training in recognising and responding to family violence?
Answer: GP 2.4 - Prevention and early detection activities
RACGP 5th edition Standard GP 2.4 specifically addresses prevention activities including family violence screening and response training.
A GP practice identifies that 30% of patients with hypertension have no documented blood pressure in the past 12 months. This finding represents which phase of the audit cycle?
Answer: Measuring current performance
Measuring current performance against an established standard (annual BP check) is the assessment phase of the audit cycle.
The concept of 'Swiss cheese model' in patient safety, developed by James Reason, describes:
Answer: How multiple system weaknesses must align for an adverse event to occur
Reason's Swiss cheese model illustrates that adverse events occur when holes (weaknesses) in multiple defensive layers align simultaneously.