Which Quality Improvement Initiatives Would Help the Health Care Organization

question 28

Multiple Choice

Which quality improvement initiatives would help the health care organization meet Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) goals?

• A) The amount of material opened and wasted for surgical procedures will drop by 25 percent this fiscal year.
• B) The number of nurses who hold a bachelor's degree will increase by 10 percent this year.
• C) Wait times in the emergency department will decrease by 15 percent this year.
• D) Employee absences will drop by 10 percent this year.
• E) Fewer than 5 percent of clients will report inadequate pain control while hospitalized.

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Definitions:

One-Sample Test

A statistical procedure used to determine if a sample comes from a population with a specific characteristic or parameter.

Proportions

Statistical measures that express the relationship of a part to the whole, often represented as a fraction or percentage.

Two-Sample Tests

Statistical tests used to compare the means or proportions of two independent or unrelated groups.

Equality of Variances

A condition in statistics where different samples have similar variances, important in certain statistical tests, like the ANOVA test.