The director of quality improvement reports that the hospital will soon be using "dashboards" as part of the quality management process. How should the staff interpret this information?
1. Surveyors are driving to clients' homes to collect data on hospital visits.
2. This electronic tool makes it easy to aggregate and display data.
3. "Dashboard" is an acronym for the topics covered in client satisfaction surveys.
4. The "dashboard" is a screen on the electronic medical record that can be accessed for quality improvement information.
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Rationale 1: The "dashboards" in this scenario are not associated with automobiles.
Rationale 2: Dashboards are electronic tools that provide ease of access to real-time or retrospective data.
Rationale 3: Dashboard is not an acronym.
Rationale 4: Dashboards are not part of the electronic medical record.
Global Rationale:
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