How many patient safety and quality assurance questions are on the PTCE?

19. PTCB publishes a percentage for every domain rather than an item count, and it gives Patient Safety and Quality Assurance 23.75% of the paper. 19 is that percentage applied to the 80 scored items — worked out here rather than lifted from the document, which is why the percentage is shown alongside it so you can check the arithmetic.

Is this section timed?

Not on this page. These sets are for learning the material — each answer comes with an explanation straight away. When you want the whole paper, the full-length test runs the published clock. The real sitting is 90 questions in 110 minutes.

Are these real questions from the test?

No. Every question here is original, written to the published format. The real item banks are confidential and nobody outside the publisher has them.

PTCE patient safety and quality assurance questions

High-alert and LASA drugs, error prevention, pharmacist intervention, event reporting, infection control.

3 19 of the 80 scored questions (23.75%)

26 questions in this set Untimed — explanation after each answer

PTCE patient safety and quality assurance 1 of 10

What makes a pair of medications look-alike/sound-alike (LASA)?

What this type asks

Just under a quarter of the paper, and the domain where the right answer is most often a person rather than a procedure. High-alert and look-alike/sound-alike medications; error prevention strategies, which the outline lists concretely — Tall Man lettering, separating inventory, leading and trailing zeros, bar code usage, limiting error-prone abbreviations; the issues that require pharmacist intervention, a list that includes drug utilisation review, adverse drug events, OTC recommendations, therapeutic substitution, misuse, adherence and allergies; event reporting procedures including MedWatch, VAERS, near-miss reporting, root-cause analysis and continuous quality improvement; the types of prescription error; and infection prevention and cleaning standards. VAERS, continuous quality improvement and the explicit framing of infection PREVENTION are additions in the outline in force.

High-alert/risk medications and look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) medicationsError prevention strategies (Tall Man lettering, separating inventory, leading and trailing zeros, bar codes, error-prone abbreviations)Issues that require pharmacist intervention (DUR, ADE, OTC recommendation, therapeutic substitution, misuse, adherence, allergies, interactions)Event reporting procedures (medication errors, MedWatch, VAERS, near miss, root-cause analysis, CQI)Types of prescription errors (incorrect dose, quantity, patient, drug, route)Infection prevention procedures and cleaning standards

Now do it with the clock running.

90 questions in 110 minutes — about 1.2 minutes each, which is the part no amount of untimed practice prepares you for.

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The other question types

Medications Federal requirements Order entry and processing Full timed test

Frequently asked

How many patient safety and quality assurance questions are on the PTCE?: 19. PTCB publishes a percentage for every domain rather than an item count, and it gives Patient Safety and Quality Assurance 23.75% of the paper. 19 is that percentage applied to the 80 scored items — worked out here rather than lifted from the document, which is why the percentage is shown alongside it so you can check the arithmetic.
Is this section timed?: Not on this page. These sets are for learning the material — each answer comes with an explanation straight away. When you want the whole paper, the full-length test runs the published clock. The real sitting is 90 questions in 110 minutes.
Are these real questions from the test?: No. Every question here is original, written to the published format. The real item banks are confidential and nobody outside the publisher has them.

Sources

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