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Intro, Ch.1, Ch.2, Ch.3

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show Core measures  
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show Cost  
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show Effectiveness  
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show Efficiency  
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The interrelated activities of healthcare organizations - including governance, managerial support, and clinical services - that affect patient outcomes across departments and disciplines within an integrated environment.   show
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show Quality assurance (QA)  
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show Retrospective payment system  
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The foundation of caregiving, which includes building, equipment, technologies, professional staff, and appropriate policies.   show
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A management philosophy developed in the mid-20th century by W. Edwards Deming (1986) and others who encouraged industrial organizations to focus on the quality of their products as their paramount mission.   show
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show Value-based purchasing  
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show Safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.  
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show Continuous monitoring  
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show Leadership  
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A healthcare structure, product, service, process, or outcome that does not meet its customers' expectations and, therefore, could be improved.   show
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show Performance improvement(PI) team  
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show Process redesign  
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Tools that facilitate the collection, display, and analysis of data and information and that help team members stay focused, including cause-and-effect diagrams, graphic presentations, and others.   show
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After implementing a new process, the team continues to measure performance against customers' expectations and established performance standards.   show
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show Affinity diagrams  
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show Benchmarking  
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An idea-generation technique in which a team leader solicits creative input from team members.   show
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show Nominal group technique  
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A measure that indicates the result of the performance (or nonperformance) of a function or process. Unanticipated adverse event or postoperative wound infections.   show
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The result of care, treatment, and services in terms of the patient's expectations, needs, quality of life, which may be positive and appropriate or negative and diminishing.   show
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The indicator of a healthcare organization's performance in relation to a specified process or outcome.   show
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A quantitative tool (for example, a rate, ratio, index, or percentage) that provides an indication of an organization's performance in relation to a specified process or outcome.   show
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A measure that focuses on a process that leads to a certain outcome, meaning that a scientific basis exists for believing that the process, when executed well, will increase the probability of achieving a desired outcome. % of antibiotics administered   show
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show Sentinel event  
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show Systems.  
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show Action plan  
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A list of the tasks to be accomplished during a meeting   show
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show Blitz team  
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show Cross-functional  
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A term used to describe an entity or activity that involves a single healthcare department, service area, or discipline   show
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show Ground rules  
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A written statement that sets forth the core purpose of an organization of performance improvement team. It is simply an expression of what already exists. The generation of a mission statement usually precedes the formation of the organization's goals.   show
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show Performance improvement council  
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show Team charter  
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show Team facilitator  
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A performance improvement (PI) team role responsible for championing the effectiveness of PI activities in meeting customers' needs and for the content of a team's work.   show
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A performance improvement team role responsible for participating in team decision making and plan development; identifying opportunities for improvement; gathering, prioritizing, and analyzing data;   show
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show Team recorder  
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show Timekeeper  
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show Values statement  
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Describes what the organization or performance improvement (PI) team initiative will look like in the future; also describes some milestone the organization or PI team will reach in the future   show
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