The continuous quality improvement model (CQI) seeks to.

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Options

• Aimprove access to care
• Bdevelop formalized standards of care
• Cseparate financial and clinical decisions
• Dfocus on individual caregivers

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  90% (36)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  5% (2)

Explanation

Option B is correct because CQI is fundamentally a systems-based approach that establishes and continuously refines formalized standards, protocols, and benchmarks to define and measure quality care across an organization - it asks "how can we improve our processes?" rather than reacting to isolated problems.

Option A is wrong because improving access to care is a goal of healthcare policy and community health planning, not the defining purpose of CQI.

Option C is wrong because CQI actually integrates financial and clinical considerations - it evaluates cost-effectiveness as part of overall quality - rather than keeping them separate.

Option D is wrong because this is actually the opposite of CQI's philosophy. CQI deliberately shifts blame away from individual caregivers and focuses on fixing systems and processes - this is one of its most important distinguishing features from older quality assurance (QA) models.

Memory tip: Remember "CQI = Create Quality Infrastructure." It builds the structural standards that everyone follows - if individual caregivers (D) were the focus, you'd be thinking of the old QA blame model, not CQI.

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