A health care organization wants to improve its patient outcomes. Which of the following could the organization use to achieve this goal?
a. Critical pathways c. Nursing Outcomes Classification
b. Benchmarks d. Standards of Care
B
Benchmarks are standards of excellence. Critical pathways are documents that identify care activities for a patient along the continuum of care. Nursing Outcomes Classification is a system of categorizing patient outcomes. Standards of care reflect the expected physical, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual care of a patient population.
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