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charchew

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The work accomplished by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Europe and the United States was evaluated and generated five critical elements of what encompassed transforming care. These criteria include:
 
  A. A complete restaffing so there was an all-physician staff
  B. A nonprofit global vision where patients pay according to their means on a sliding scale
  C. Democratic leaders, unionizing of em-ployees, and transactional leadership cul-ture
  D. A desire to transform, commitment to quality, and staff time for problem solving

Question 2

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offered a program, Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Healthcare Performance, between 2002 and 2007 . The goal of this project was to:
 
  A. Standardize all medical care in the United States and Europe
  B. Pursue executives from for-profit organi-zations in health care to assist them with the maintaining the bottom line.
  C. Improve patient outcomes in Europe and the United States by pursuing perfection in all major care areas
  D. Collaborate with international companies to have sharing of ideas and hopefully lower costs



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D

A Incorrect because having an all-physician staff was not identified as crucial to transforming care.
B Incorrect because the idea of nonprofit and sliding scale fees were not identified as crucial to transforming care.
C Incorrect because none of these elements were identified as helping to transform the care.
D Correct because these are three of the critical elements identified by the re-searchers of the project.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C

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A Incorrect because standardization of all care was not the goal.
B Incorrect because the focus was not on executives or for-profit organizations.
C Correct because the outcomes were the focus.
D Incorrect because global sharing was not one of Deming's ideas.



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