Preventing Medical Errors: Best Practices For
Preventing Medical Errors: Best Practices for
Mental Health Professionals - 2013
1)Which of the following is responsible for more deaths in the United States?
a)motor vehicles
b)suicide
c)homicide
d)medical errors
2)The definition of medical errors provided states that medical errors
a)result in a patient's death
b)result in harm to the patient
c)are typically prescription errors
d)are typically HIPPA violations
3)A clinician failing to report child abuse is given as an example of an act of
a)commission
b)negligence
c)omission
d)harm
4)What did Pope (2003) find to be the most frequent reason for malpractice claims against psychologists?
a)loss from evaluation
b)suicide
c)improper diagnosis
d)sexual violations
5)Root Cause Analysis has its basis in
a)industrial psychology
b)horticulture
c)psychodynamic theory
d)game theory
6)All the following are steps in Root Cause Analysis EXCEPT
a)What happened
b)Why did it happen
c)Who caused it to happen
d)What to do to prevent it from happening again
7)Which of the following is NOT a factor in competence listed by Pope and Brown (1996)?
a)knowledge
b)technical skills
c)emotional competence
d)a moral compass
8)In the case study involving Dr. Bill, the medical error concerned
a)providing sweets to clients who may have been diabetic
b)failing to recognize a medical condition
c)providing therapy while impaired by a substance
d)failing to recognize the warning signs of suicide
9)What do Pope & Vasquez describe as “a process of communication and clarification”?
a)psychotherapy
b)suicide assessment
c)informed consent
d)developing a treatment plan
10) Which is NOT one of the three essential elements of informed consent according to Gupta and Kharawala (2012)?
a)Voluntarism
b)Information disclosure
c)Collaboration
d)Decisional capacity
11) Which is any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that can be connected to a person?
a)progress notes
b)process notes
c)protected health information
d)personally identifiable data
12) The right to withhold information from a court is known as
a)confidentiality
b)sanctuary
c)privilege
d)dies non
13) In the 4th case study, what did Dr. Wright do wrong?
a)He failed to make a mandatory report
b)He did not protect confidential client information
c)He assaulted an obnoxious client
d)He double billed a client's insurance
14) Professionals working with children under the age of 18 are considered
a)mandated reporters
b)guardian ad litems
c)first responders
d)parents pro temp
15) The Tarasoff case resulted in the first _____ laws.
a)no contact order
b)suicide hotline
c)psychotherapy malpractice
d)duty to warn
16) What percent of people who die by suicide have a diagnosable and treatable psychiatric illness at the time of their death?
a)30%
b)50%
c)70%
d)90%
17) All the following are biopsychosocial risk factors for suicide EXCEPT
a)lack of social support and sense of isolation
b)alcohol and other substance use disorders
c)hopelessness
d)history of trauma or abuse
18) Which of the following does Chaung (2006) mention which suggest a medical origin to psychiatric symptoms?
a)late onset of initial presentation
b)illicit substance use
c)atypical presentation of a specific psychiatric diagnosis
d)all the above
19) Chaung (2006) places multiple sclerosis in which category?
a)Results of medical and toxic effects
b)infectious diseases
c)diseases of the central nervous system
d)metabolic and endocrine disorders
20) What facilitates communication among professionals, presents an interface with the legal arena and helps clinicians bill third-party payers?
a)treatment planning
b)inferential diagnostics
c)peer counseling
d)differential diagnosis
21) An upsurge of incidences of many childhood illnesses is given as an example of
a)diagnostic trends
b)diagnostic pressure
c)diagnostic regression
d)diagnostic laziness
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