Which of the following is a form of prospective utilization management?
Pattern review
Precertification
None of the answers are correct
Case review
What type of Donabedian measure is the following? "The rate of hospital readmissions after surgery."
Process
Outcome
The correct answer is pattern review.
Explanation : Prospective utilization management is where pattern review is done of the treatment.It is related to the review of treatment.
The correct answer is option outcome
Which of the following is a form of prospective utilization management? Pattern review Precertification None of...
(Spts) 14) Al of the following activities are steps in medical necessity and utilization review EXCEPT: Initial clinical review Peer clinical review Appeal consideration Administrative review 15) All of the following activities are service management tools used in controlling costs EXCEPT: (Spts) Applying an episode-of-care payment system Determining medical necessity and utilization review Assigning the primary care provider as gatekeeper to specialized services through referrals and prior authorizations Case and prescription management 16) Which of the following is a disadvantage...
2. Categorize the following as either a process measure or an outcome measure by completing the type column in the table below: Measure Type: Outcome or Process Formula Total incidences of inpatient falls ? # of inpatient falls / # of patient days Utilization management: # of patients for whom discharge planning was completed ? # of patients who had discharge planning completed / # of patients discharged Procedure appropriateness: Surgical criteria not met ? # of appropriate surgical cases...
36 References Review Questions 1. Compare and contrast the use of Six Sigma, Lean, and HRO concepts with regard to quality in healthcare. 2. A healthcare organization is investigating the organization's compliance with the postprocedure patient education process. A performance measure will be used to assist this organization in this inves tigation. Write this performance measure. 3. Community Hospital is concerned about their readmission rate for congestive heart failure patients in the last quarter. Which of the following methods would...
Which of the following always implies an increase in process utilization (while keeping other conditions the same)? An increase in the bottleneck capacity An increase in the demand rate A decrease of idle time at the resource with the least capacity None of the above
10. During a PI team meeting, the leader asked members of the team to provide ideas on how to reduce the coding backlog. Each team member offered their ideas on how to reduce the coding backlog as they came up with them and the team leader recorded them on the white board. What PI tool is being used in this example? a. structured benchmarking b. structured brainstorming c. unstructured benchmarking d. unstructured brainstorming 11. Which of the following techniques is...
Question 8 1 pts Discharge planning is associated with which type of utilization review? (Level 2) a. Concurrent b. Prospective c. Gatekeeping d. Retrospective 1 pts Question 7 1 pts In which of the following plans can an MCO lose a large number of physicians if a contract is lost? (Level 1) a. POS plans b. PPO plans c. HMO group model plans d. HMO IPA model plans e. None of the above D Question 5 1 pts According to...
Read the following article and decide if the patient received quality care. An example of the difficulty of making judgments about quality of care could be illustrated through the experience of a patient undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. A patient with significant coronary artery disease consults with a cardiac surgeon prior to surgery. The cardiac surgeon spends little time with the patient during the preoperative visit. She makes little effort to educate the patient about what will happen before, during,...
1. Which of the following does not influence the level of type II error A. All of these influence type II error B. Selection of test statistic C.Sample size 2. If a health plan analyst wanted to determine if the readmissions rates for two hospitals were statistically different, which hypothesis test should be used? A. One –sample Z-test for proportions B. Chi square C.Two-sample Z-test for proportions 3. A one-sample z-test for proportions may be used to: A. Determine if...
Healthcare Quality Management Student Workbook - 5th edition Project 2-1: Structure, Process, Outcome, and Patient Experience Measures Project Description: For a comprehensive understanding of performance, healthcare organizations measure four distinct characteristics: structure, process, outcome, and patient experience measures, Structure measures are used to assess the organization's capacity to provide quality patient care. Process measures are used to assess satisfactory completion of healthcare tasks. Outcome measures are used to assess the end result of healthcare services. Patient experience measures are used...
1.33 pts Question 9 When Charlotte's ACL was torn, she visited her physician at an outpatient care facility. Her doctor's decision to not recommend surgery for Charlotte and 10 other patients with similar conditions is under review by the Board of the outpatient facility. Charlotte and other patients complained that they still struggled to walk after the recovery period. What type of utilization review would identify this delivery of service? (Level 3) Oa. Prospective Utilization Review (the doctor used this...