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HIM 2510 Quality & Performance Improvement

Review Worksheet 5

Chapters 7 & 8

Instructions: Complete the worksheet and submit to the designated drop box.

Chapter 7

Q1: What are the 2 primary reasons for the health information management department?

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Q2: The statistics collected and reported in the health information management
department are for what?
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Q3: What is billing for ghost patients?
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Q4: What is DRG creep?

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Q5: What is the PQRI?

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Chapter 8

Q1: List the 8 components of policy development.
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Q2: Policies affect everyone in an organization (True or False). Briefly explain
your choice.
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Q3: Why is it important to periodically review and update policies?
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Q4: Why is it important for a facility to establish its own consequences for
violating a policy?

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Q5: Define contingency and violate.

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HIM 2510 Quality & Performance Improvement

Chapter Review Worksheet 6

Chapters 9 & 10

Instructions: Complete the worksheet and submit to the designated drop box.

Chapter 9

1) Q: What is a patient care process cycle?

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2) Q: What is a SCHIP Core Measures Set?

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3) Q: What are clinical pathways?

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4) Q: What is evidence-based medicine?

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5) Q: What data set is utilized in long term care?

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Chapter 10

1) Q: Why have healthcare organizations taken an aggressive stance on inpatient acquired infection control?

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2) Q: List the major steps for infection control?

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3) Q: What is the difference between a healthcare-associated infection and a community-acquired infection?

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4) Q: What components would be included in an infection control screening program?

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5) Q: Why are flowcharts good for performance improvement investigations within a process?

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1. What role does a HIM professional play in HCAHPS or Core Measures?

2. Choose a local hospital and review current results on each HCAHPS measure.  You can review this information by visiting the “Survey of Patients’ Hospital Experiences” section of the Hospital Compare Web site (

www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare

).

a- Which hospital did you choose and why?

b-What conclusions were you able to draw from this information?

50 WORDS EACH QUESTION

1. Explain why it is important for any organization to conduct a SWOT analysis on itself every now and then. Your response should be no less than 2 paragraphs.

2. In your opinion, how reliable do you feel a performance improvement review is when the review is conducted by internal staff? Your response should be no less than 2 paragraphs.