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
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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