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Preventing Errors for Healthcare Professionals: Summary
10. Which of the following refers to a specific situation in which a drug, procedure, or surgery should not be used because it may be harmful to the patient? a. Adverse drug event b. Indication c. Contraindication d. Medical error 11. Which of the following uses works by setting an application called an event monitor over a clinical database? a. Computerized RCA b. Computerized MDE c. Computerized CTS d. Computerized ADE 12. Which of the following are components of the root cause analysis process? a. Define the problem b. Gather data/evidence c. Identify the fundamental relationships associated with the defined problem d. All of the above 13. Which of the following is a type of medical error that can occur? a. Misdiagnosis of symptoms b. Errors in medication c. Surgical errors d. All of these are medical errors that can occur 14. When a medical professional fails to use an indicated diagnostic test, he or she is not acting in the best interest of the patient, and the result will be a faulty diagnosis which ultimately means the patient will not heal or improve. This phenomenon is known as what? a. Failure to use an indicated diagnostic test b. Misreading of test results c. Adverse drug reaction d. Beneficence
15. Which of the following outlines the four stages and sequence of the medication process? a. Physician ordering, transcription, pharmacy dispensing, nursing administration b. Pharmacy dispensing, transcription, nursing administration, patient adherence c. Nurses ordering, transcription, pharmacy dispending, physician assistant administration d. Physician ordering, pharmacy dispensing, nursing administration, documentation 16. Studies show that over how many people are injured or die each year in hospitals from adverse drug events? a. 250,000 b. 500,000 c. 770,000 d. 1 million 17. Hospital expenses to treat patients who suffer ADEs during hospitalization are estimated at between how many dollars annually? a. $ 770,000 and $ 1 million
b. $1.56 and $5.6 million c. $1.56 and $5.6 billion d. $6.2 and $7 billion 18. Medication errors cause at least
________ death(s) every day and injure approximately 1.5 million people annually in the United States.
a. One b. Two
c. Three d. Seven 19. Which of the following can contribute to a medication error? a. Poor handwriting b. Confusion with drugs with similar names c. Poor packaging design d. All of the above can contribute to a medication error 20. What occurs when a wrong operative procedure occurs, a professional fails to remove a foreign object, or an operation happens on the wrong site? a. Adverse drug reaction b. Surgical error c. Medication errors d. Hospital acquired infection
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