CPHQ

CPHQ practice questions, page 5 of 15, with answer review and explanations.

Question 21

Payers are more likely to embrace the optimization definition of care which can put them at odds with:

  1. Clinicians
  2. Health administrators
  3. Physicians
  4. Both A and B

Question 22

The manager’s perspective on quality differs markedly from that of clinicians and patients on:

  1. Efficiency, effectiveness and access
  2. Efficiency, cost effectiveness and equity
  3. Responsiveness to patient preferences
  4. Equity, access and technical performance

Question 23

Strong disagreement does arise, among the five parties’ definitions (i.e. the clinician’s, the patient’s the payers, the manager’s and the society’s), even outside the realm of cost effectiveness. Conflicts typically arise when:

  1. Practitioners who are highly skilled in trauma and other emergency care
  2. Each group emphasizes a particular aspect of care
  3. One party holds that a particular practitioner or clinic is a high quality provider by virtue of having high ratings on single aspect of care
  4. The facility receives top marks from a team of expert clinicians whose primary focus is on technical performance

Question 24

All the evaluations of quality of care can be classified in terms of one three aspects of care giving they measure. Which of the following is/are NOT out of these measures? (Choose two.)

  1. Structure
  2. Process
  3. Output
  4. Cutbas

Question 25

When quality is measured in terms of structure the focus is on the relatively static characteristics of the individuals who provide care and of the settings where the care is delivered. These characteristics include ____________ of professionals who provide care and the adequacy of the facility’s equipment, and overall organization.

  1. Education
  2. Training
  3. Certification
  4. A, B and C