Hospital Quality Improvement
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Quality health improvement is very vital in health institutions to ensure proper positive changes. Quality health improvement ensures safety, effectiveness, and efficiency. Therefore, to ensure all this is achieved, unique methods and tools are used to improve improvement. Some of the factors staff members should consider upgrading healthcare systems include. Work systems and processes, by this all members of the staff should understand the delivery process in that the input and output should be streamlined to achieve all the needs of the health service system.
Secondly, focus on the patients; this will ensure all patient’s needs and expectations are catered for. All staff members should ensure patient safety, all systems in the hospital favor patients, and proper patient engagement (Goodman, 2016). Hence patients will get the necessary care; therefore, no harm is caused. Also, patients have a right to respectful and responsive care according to their preferences needs and values. Hence this ensures a patient-centered solution.
Thirdly, the use of data is essential in ensuring quality improvement in health care systems. The use of data helps show current work systems that track all the changes and help in monitoring sustainable improvements. Data insights have low medical errors; fewer infection rates hence deliver better outcomes. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used to ensure the improvement of health care systems. Fourthly, care coordination, which ensures care activities are well catered. Care coordination software ideally helps in maintaining the master patient index and longitudinal health record for every patient. This method is crucial in the case of a chronic condition that helps reduce care fragmentation of patients to secure a network of trusted healthcare workers
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References
Stiefel, M. C., Perla, R. J., & Zell, B. L. (2010). A healthy bottom line: healthy life expectancy as an outcome measure for health improvement efforts. The Milbank Quarterly, 88(1), 30-53.
Goodman, D., Ogrinc, G., Davies, L., Baker, G. R., Barnsteiner, J., Foster, T. C., … & Leis, J. (2016). Explanation and elaboration of the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Guidelines, V. 2.0: examples of SQUIRE elements in the healthcare improvement literature. BMJ quality & safety, 25(12), e7-e7.