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Pre-Test Competency Questions
“Overview of the Science of Safety in Healthcare”
Dr. James Bien
1. Current best-estimate of the number of deaths associated with health care errors in the
United States annually is:
a. 98,000
b. 150,000 – 190,000
c. 210,000 – 440,000
d. Greater than 500,000
2. True or False: Latent errors occur at the sharp end of the process.
3. The practices of High Reliability Organizations, as described by Weick and Sutcliffe,
include all of the following except:
a. Preoccupation with failure
b. Reluctance to simplify
c. Sensitivity to operations
d. Commitment to resilience
e. Deference to authority
4. Voluntary event reporting processes identify what percentage of actual errors which
occur in a system:
a. 10%
b. 20%
c. 30%
d. 40%
e. 50%
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Please fill out, sign and turn in with your evaluation
Post-Test Competency Questions
““Overview
of the Science of Safety in Healthcare”
Dr. James Bien
1. Current best-estimate of the number of deaths associated with health care errors in
the United States annually is:
a. 98,000
b. 150,000 – 190,000
c. 210,000 – 440,000
d. Greater than 500,000
2. True or False: Latent errors occur at the sharp end of the process.
3. The practices of High Reliability Organizations, as described by Weick and
Sutcliffe, include all of the following except:
a. Preoccupation with failure
b. Reluctance to simplify
c. Sensitivity to operations
d. Commitment to resilience
e. Deference to authority
4. Voluntary event reporting processes identify what percentage of actual errors which
occur in a system:
a. 10%
b. 20%
c. 30%
d. 40%
e. 50%