Data Quality - correct answer ✔✔Refers to high grade, superiority, or excellence of data.
American College of Surgeons [ACS] - correct answer ✔✔Created the Hospitalization Standardization
Program in 1918.
Hospital Standardization Program - correct answer ✔✔Served as the start of the accreditation
movement of the 20th century that included the concept of quality patient care and the formation of the
Joint Commission of Accreditation of Hospitals [JCAH] in 1951.
Total Quality Management - correct answer ✔✔The organization-wide approach to quality
improvement.
Continuous Quality Improvement - correct answer ✔✔The systematic, team-based approach yo process
and performance improvement.
Quality Management - correct answer ✔✔Every aspect of health care quality may be subject to
managerial oversight.
Quality Assurance - correct answer ✔✔Actions taken to establish protect, promote, and improve the
quality of health care.
Process Improvement - correct answer ✔✔The improvement of processes involved in the delivery of
health care.
Performance Improvement - correct answer ✔✔The improvement of performance as it relates to health
care.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research [AHCPR] - correct answer ✔✔A government agency formed
in 1989 as a quest to quality health care.
, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality [AHRQ] - correct answer ✔✔The new agency name for
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, changed in 1999 as part of the Health Care Research and
Quality Act.
AHRQ Accomplishments - correct answer ✔✔》 Focus is on quality-of-care research and acts as a
"science partner" between the public and private sectors to improve the quality and safety of patient
care.
》 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey [MEPS]
》Health Care Cost and Utilization Project [HCUP]
》 Consumer Assessment of Health Care Plans Survey [CAHPS]
》 Translation of Research into Practice [TRIP]
》 Patient safety organizations [PSOs]
》 National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care
National Academy of Medicine - correct answer ✔✔Private, non-profit organization that issued a report
in 2001, titled Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, which provided a
significant number of changes that have affected the delivery of health care services.
》 Provided the Ten Steps for Redesign
》 Established the Health Care Quality Innovation Fund
National Committee for Quality Assurance [NCQA] - correct answer ✔✔A private not-for-profit
accreditation organization whose mission is to evaluate and report on the quality of managed care
organizations in the United States that was established in 1990.
》 Manages Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set [HEDIS]
》 Operates recognition programs
》 Accredits accountable care and managed care organizations
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