The CDI steering committee should discuss a series of questions outlining the purpose of the meeting and how the group will achieve the goal of a new outpatient CDI program. Which of the following is among the questions that should be asked as part of this discussion?

What is a broad statement that explains what the program will accomplish, provides an overall direction and focus of the program, and can be considered a foundation for the objectives development process?

Who should estimate timeframes, delegate responsibilities among stakeholders, document completion dates, and provide alternatives to planned tasks as needed to keep the project on track?

Who should formally review and accept the project workplan?

The CDI taskforce must often make decisions about skill sets and credentials. What major responsibility does this describe?

When considering the organizational structure of the new outpatient CDI program, stakeholders should consider which organizational leader (executive sponsor) has the  required broad reach, can provide high-level program visibility, and can ______________ needed for the program.

What is the overarching basis of the decision to move forward with a CDI program?

Instead of teeth, birds mechanically break down food in the ______, a muscular part of the digestive system.

Consider the optimization problem below.     Below is the spreadsheet model with the objective function coefficients and constraint coefficients missing.   What value goes in cell C33 (the light blue cell)?

Okay super technicians!  For up to 4 points extra credit: We are faced with a Zombie apocalypse, and you are the only qualified person to care for livestock.  Which food animal species (please give at least 2), would you choose and why?