Deck 27: Measuring Outcomes

Question 1

What makes outcomes research different from other types of research?

Answer 1

The purpose

Question 2

What are the 6 Aims of Improving Healthcare Quality?

Answer 2

Safe, Timely, Efficient, Effective, Equitable, Patient-centered

Question 3

Evidence-based practice:

A) Is an approach to health care where health practitioners use the best evidence possible to make decisions.
B) Incorporates successful strategies that improve client outcomes.
C) Is derived from various sources including research, national guidelines, policies, consensus statements and systematic analysis of clinical experience.
D) All of these

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What is one tool that RDNs and DTRs have available to them that contains evidence-based practice guidelines?

Question 5

Which of the following questions is NOT part of the basis for The Model for Improvement?

A) What change can we make that will result in an improvement?
B) How can the healthcare system increase reimbursement?
C) What are we trying to improve?
D) How will we know if the change we make is an improvement?

Question 6

What is another name for the Fishbone Diagram? And what is its purpose?

Question 7

What is a unique web application platform available to RDNs and DTRs to track outcome of their interventions?

Question 8

How might an RDN establish a question for an outcomes research project?

A) Find something about their patient population or process that bothers them and study it.
B) Look at the EAL list of Grade 5 questions.
C) Read literature to see what improvement projects or outcomes studies are being done in other similar work settings.
D) All of these

Question 9

The PDSA tool includes all except:

A) Plan
B) Document
C) Study
D) Act

Question 10

Patient centered provides care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensures patient values guide all clinical decisions.