CPHQ

CPHQ practice questions, page 6 of 15, with answer review and explanations.

Question 26

Licensing and accrediting bodies have relied heavily on structural measures of quality not only because the measures are relatively stable and thus easier to capture but:

  1. They reliably identify providers who are cheap
  2. They reliably identify providers who demonstrably lack means to deliver high quality care
  3. They can never lack the means to deliver high quality care
  4. They reliably identify physicians

Question 27

Ordering the correct diagnostic procedure for a patient is a measure of _________. When evaluating the process of care, however, appropriateness is only half the story. The other half is in how well and how promptly (i.e. skill-fully) the procedure was carried out.

  1. Consciousness
  2. Appropriateness
  3. Care assessment
  4. Equity

Question 28

Ordering the correct diagnostic procedure for a patient is a measure of _________. When evaluating the process of care, however, appropriateness is only half the story. The other half is in how well and how promptly (i.e. skill-fully) the procedure was carried out.

  1. Consciousness
  2. Appropriateness
  3. Care assessment
  4. Equity

Question 29

Because of the goals of care can be defined broadly, outcome measures have come to include the costs of care as well as patients’ satisfaction with care. In formulations that stress the technical aspects of care, however outcome typically refers to:

  1. Health status-related indicators such as whether the pain subsided
  2. Desired results
  3. Appropriate and potentially harmless care
  4. Special set of clinical activities

Question 30

Knowledge about _______ is crucial to making valid judgments about quality of care using either process or outcome measures. If we know that a given clinical intervention was undertaken in circumstances that match those, under which the intervention has been shown to be efficacious, we can be confident, that the care was appropriate and, to the extent of good quality.

  1. Outcomes
  2. Structure
  3. Efficacy
  4. Processes