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Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality Questions 71–75 (page: 16)

Updated On: 9-Feb-2026

Stratification is the separation and classification of data into reasonably homogenous categories. It allows understanding of differences in the data caused by all of the following EXCEPT:

  1. Day of the week
  2. Time of the day
  3. Type of order
  4. Area of facility

Answer(s): D



"A quality improvement team is interested in determining the percentage of medication orders that are delivered to nurses' stations within one hour of the order's receipt in the pharmacy. Before collecting data on this question, the team should determine whether it believes that this percentage could differ by floor, time of day, day of week, type of medication ordered, pharmacist on duty, or volume of orders received. If the team believes that one or more of these factors will influence the outcome, it should take steps to ensure that it collects the data relevant to these factors each time the pharmacy receives an order." This example explains:

  1. How stratification could be applied to pharmacy
  2. Is there any need to sample the data
  3. Targets and goals of measurement
  4. Confidentiality issues in measurement

Answer(s): A



Sampling is a key that healthcare professionals need to develop. If a process does not generate a lot of data, you probably will analyze all the occurrences of an event and not need to consider sampling. Sampling usually is not required when the measure is:

  1. A percentage
  2. A rate
  3. A step by step process
  4. A strata

Answer(s): A,B



_______________ is based on a simple principle-statistical probability. In other words, within a known population of size n, there will be a fixed probability of selecting any single element.

  1. Probability sampling
  2. Random sampling
  3. Systematic sampling
  4. Non-probability sampling

Answer(s): A



If you decided to interview ten patients in your emergency room on a given day and drew conclusions about your emergency services from these people. You have taken limited data and made a huge jump in logic. This jump is known as:

  1. Stereotyping
  2. Over-generalization
  3. Ecological fallacy
  4. Quota sampling

Answer(s): C



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