Staff Review Committees Are the Most Common Specific Approach to Quality

question 24

Multiple Choice

Staff review committees are the most common specific approach to quality assurance. The audit, the major tool used to evaluate quality of care, consists of six steps. A quality assurance manager does an audit and six months later returns to see if a problem has been eliminated. This step is:

• A) The step that involves selecting explicit criteria for quality care
• B) The step where records are reviewed
• C) The step that includes a peer review of all cases that do not meet criteria
• D) The last step in the audit process

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Definitions:

Milgram Experiment

A psychological experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s to study obedience to authority, where participants were instructed to administer electric shocks to another person.

Stanford University Prison Experiment

A psychological study conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971 at Stanford University, where students were assigned roles of prisoners and guards to explore the effects of perceived power.

Generalization

Drawing a conclusion about a certain characteristic of a population based on a sample from it.

Logical Support

The provision of reasons or evidence to justify a claim or argument.