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Your institution has identified a recent rise in postsurgical infection rates. As part of your QI analysis, you are interested in determining how your infection rates compare with those of insti-tutions of similar size and patient demographics.
 
  This is known as: a. Quality assurance.
  b. Sentinel data.
  c. Benchmarking.
  d. Statistical analysis.

Question 2

Subunit or _____ power refers to relationships across departments.
 
  a. vertical
  b. organizational
  c. horizontal
  d. exertional



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Answer to Question 1

C
Benchmarking is a widespread search to identify the best performance against which to measure practices and processes.

Answer to Question 2

C
Subunit or horizontal power pertains to relationships across departments.



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