| Question 1: For purpose of meeting annual Joint Commission standards, the next required annual action is one year from the date of the last event plus or minus _____ days. |
| Reference: | Hospital/Ambulatory Care Accreditation Manual, July 1, 2018, Environment of Care Chapter, Other Issues for Consideration 2.: Annually- One year from the date of the last event, plus or minus 30 days. Synonymous with every 12 months, once a year, every year. |
| Choice A: | Fourteen. |
| Choice B: | Thirty. |
| Choice C: | Sixty. |
| Choice D: | Seven. |
| Question 2: The current medical staff privileging process as described in the Hospital Medical Staff chapter is adequate to ensure the competency of staff utilizing fluoroscopy. |
| Reference: | HAP Accreditation Manual, July 1, 2018, Human Resource Chapter, HR.01.01.01 EP |
| Choice A: | True. |
| Choice B: | False. |
| Question 3: Which of the following can facilitate benchmarking one’s CT doses against external benchmarks: |
| Reference: | HAP/AHC Standards, Performance Improvement Standard PI 02.01.01 EP 6; https://www.acr.org/Practice-Management-Quality-Informatics/Registries/Dose-Index-Registry |
| Choice A: | Participating in the ACR (American College of Radiology ) DIR (Dose index registry). |
| Choice B: | Enabling the Dosecheck alert value feature. |
| Choice C: | Enabling the DoseCheck notification value feature. |
| Choice D: | Participating in a Joint Commission Radiology Imaging services Audit. |
| Question 4: The purpose of an ACR Validation Site Survey is to assist a site following repeated failures in the accreditation process. |
| Reference: | ACR Accreditation Toolkit for Validation Site Surveys https://www.acraccreditation.org/-/media/ACRAccreditation/Documents/Site-Survey-Toolkit/Tool-Kit-for-Practice-Sites.pdf?la=en |
| Choice A: | True. |
| Choice B: | False. |
| Question 5: All of the following are major failures in the ACR CT accreditation program except: |
| Reference: | CT Accreditation Program Testing Instructions - https://www.acraccreditation.org/-/media/ACRAccreditation/Documents/CT/CT-Accreditation-Testing-Instructions.pdf?la=en |
| Choice A: | Incorrect anatomic coverage. |
| Choice B: | Uniformity (any difference of more than 7 HU). |
| Choice C: | kV used is different than what is recorded in the phantom data form. |
| Choice D: | Exceeding ACR CTDI reference levels. |
| Choice E: | Incorrect dosimetry phantom used . |
| Question 6: XR-29 compliance is checked during an ACR site audit because: |
| Reference: | ACR Accreditation Toolkit for Validation Site Surveys https://www.acraccreditation.org/-/media/ACRAccreditation/Documents/Site-Survey-Toolkit/Tool-Kit-for-Practice-Sites.pdf?la=en |
| Choice A: | It is a requirement for ACR CT accreditation. |
| Choice B: | It is recommended by the 2017 ACR CT QC Manual. |
| Choice C: | It is required by federal regulations that the ACR verify compliance. |
| Choice D: | It is required by insurance companies that the ACR verify compliance. |
| Question 7: How many states currently license (not register) medical physicists? |
| Reference: | AAPM Government Affairs, State Registration and Licensure, https://www.aapm.org/government_affairs/licensure/, Updated Feb 2014, Accessed 18 April 2018. |
| Choice A: | 2 |
| Choice B: | 4 |
| Choice C: | 13 |
| Choice D: | 16 |
| Question 8: About what percent of states have licensing laws covering the practice of radiologic technologists who operate CT scanners? |
| Reference: | State Licensing, American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT), https://www.arrt.org/about-the-profession/state-licensing
Individual State Licensure Information, American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT), https://www.asrt.org/main/standards-regulations/state-legislative-affairs/individual-state-licensure-info
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| Choice A: | 15% |
| Choice B: | 25% |
| Choice C: | 50% |
| Choice D: | 75% |
| Question 9: Which of the following best describes the on-site survey methods used by The Joint Commission? |
| Reference: | https://www.jointcommission.org/facts_about_the_tracer_methodology/ |
| Choice A: | Interviewing. |
| Choice B: | Observation. |
| Choice C: | Record review. |
| Choice D: | Tracer. |
| Question 10: ACR CT on-site surveys require which of the following documents? |
| Reference: | https://www.acraccreditation.org/-/media/ACRAccreditation/Documents/Site-Survey-Toolkit/Tool-Kit-for-Practice-Sites.pdf?la=en |
| Choice A: | Form FDA 2579 report of assembly. |
| Choice B: | ISO certification. |
| Choice C: | State registration. |
| Choice D: | XR 29 certificate of compliance. |
