Your Organization Is in the Middle of Re-Designing Patient Care

question 8

Multiple Choice

Your organization is in the middle of re-designing patient care units,with decisions based on best practices and various other sources of evidence.In the middle of the transition,there is a temporary halt called to the transition because of a re-design of the health care system and greater emphasis on primary care.What would be a healthy response to this situation?

• A) Salvage as much of the original planning as possible so as to reduce expenditures.
• B) Engage in consultation to create innovative solutions that bridge the existing plans and the new directions.
• C) Abandon the current planning in favor of addressing the new trends.
• D) Continue with the current planning because trends come and go.

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Definitions:

Student T Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistical inference for datasets with small sample sizes and unknown population standard deviations.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean; the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can freely vary in the analysis of statistical calculations without violating any constraints.

Exponential Distribution

A continuous probability distribution used to model the time between events in a process with a constant rate.