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What is the primary focus of minimizing risks in healthcare interventions?
What is the primary focus of minimizing risks in healthcare interventions?
Why is it essential to minimize risks associated with healthcare interventions?
Why is it essential to minimize risks associated with healthcare interventions?
Which of the following best describes the outcome expected from minimizing risks in healthcare?
Which of the following best describes the outcome expected from minimizing risks in healthcare?
In the context of healthcare interventions, which factor does risk minimization focus on?
In the context of healthcare interventions, which factor does risk minimization focus on?
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What is one major benefit of risk minimization for healthcare providers?
What is one major benefit of risk minimization for healthcare providers?
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What distinguishes efficient services?
What distinguishes efficient services?
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How is efficacy defined in the context of health treatments?
How is efficacy defined in the context of health treatments?
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Which statement is true regarding both efficiency and efficacy?
Which statement is true regarding both efficiency and efficacy?
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Which of the following best exemplifies an efficient service?
Which of the following best exemplifies an efficient service?
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Why is scientific research important in determining efficacy?
Why is scientific research important in determining efficacy?
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Study Notes
Importance of Quality in Healthcare
- Proper use of limited resources and appropriate costs of services
- Decreasing variation in medical performance and outcomes across different health organizations
- Encouraging competition between organizations, meeting customer needs and expectations
- Inspection for identifying and fixing problems at the end-point of the product
Control Quality
- Reactive approach focused on detecting defects in the product itself
Quality Assurance
- Proactive approach focused on preventing defects at the process level
Total Quality Management
- (Not detailed in the document)
Continuous Quality Improvement
- (Not detailed in the document)
Perspective of Quality
- HC Manager: best services, lowest cost, best outcome
- Community: available, accessible, comfortable, humanity, relieve symptoms, prevent illness
- HC Services Triad: health team, technical skills, resources, work environment, achieving target
Dimensions of Quality
- Appropriateness: The extent to which care is relevant to the patient's clinical needs
- Access to Service: Unrestricted access to healthcare services
- Competency: Adherence to professional care and practice standards
- Continuity: Providing complete health services without interruption
- Effectiveness: Providing care in the correct manner for desired outcomes
- Efficiency: Providing the greatest benefit with available resources
- Efficacy: The power of a procedure or treatment to improve health
- Respect and Caring: Patient involvement in decisions and provider responsiveness to needs and expectations
Safety
- The organization's environment being hazard-free.
- Minimizing adverse outcomes for patients and providers due to healthcare interventions.
Timeliness
- Providing care and services at the most beneficial or necessary time
Measuring Quality of Care
- Inputs (Structure): People and skills (physicians, support staff), equipment, facilities, organizational structure, information systems
- Process: Interpersonal interaction, access to care, appropriateness of care
- Outcome: Death rate, disease, disability, discomfort, dissatisfaction rate
Seven Basic Quality Tools
- Cause-and-effect diagram (Ishikawa/fishbone): Identifying and categorizing potential causes of a problem
- Check sheet: Gathering data on how often a problem occurs
- Control chart: Studying how a process changes over time through graphs
- Histogram: Displaying the distribution of continuous data (like time, weight, size)
- Pareto chart: Identifying the most significant factors contributing to a problem using a bar graph (80/20 principle)
- Scatter diagram: Analyzing the strength and relationship between two variables
- Flowchart: Visually representing the steps of a process in a sequential order
Sentinel Event
- Unexpected occurrences resulting in severe physical or psychological injury or death
Near Miss
- Potential medical errors caught before patient administration
Accreditation
- Typically a voluntary process where a government or agency grants recognition to healthcare institutions that meet standards
Hospital Provisional Accreditation Requirements
- Basic requirements (e.g., licensure)
National Safety Requirements (NSR)
- (A comprehensive list of numerous safety requirements for healthcare facilities) including:
- Accurate patient identification
- Effective verbal/telephone communication
- Hand hygiene
- Prevention of catheter/tubing misconnections
- Fall/pressure ulcer risk assessment and management
- Critical alarm recognition, response
- Venous thromboembolism prevention and management
- Timely and accurate communication of critical results
- Standardized codes/terminology
- Medication reconciliation within the hospital
- Safe storage of medications and hazardous materials
- Minimization of risk with high-alert medications and electrolytes
- Avoiding look-alike/sound-alike medication errors
- Marking surgical sites
- Proper verification of patient, procedure, and body part -Accurate counting of instruments
- Fire/smoke safety plans, and drills
- Safe work environment for high-risk situations
- Radiation and laboratory safety programs, etc.
Essential Quality Requirements
- (Detailed list of specific requirements like patient rights, waiting spaces, complaint processes, special care unit access, medical imaging quality assurance, operative reports, medication procurement, isolation/disinfection practices, hospital governing body & structure)
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This quiz explores the significance of quality in healthcare, examining key concepts such as quality assurance, total quality management, and continuous quality improvement. It highlights the perspectives of various stakeholders in the healthcare system and the importance of proactive approaches to prevent defects in service delivery.
