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:

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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Major Depression

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