This account of practice discusses how we use action learning (AL) sets as part of the supervision process for quality improvement (QI) projects in healthcare. Reflecting on the synergies between QI and AL reveals that the questioning approach of both links closely with the Calgary Cambridge ...
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Many in healthcare today are interested in defining "quality improvement". We propose defining it as the combined and unceasing efforts of everyone—healthcare professionals, patients and their families, researchers, payers, planners and educators—to make the changes that will lead to better patient...
SUGGESTED for you "Despite more than a decade of efforts, the clinical quality of outpatient care delivered to American adults has not consistently improved," the authors write. "Current deficits in care continue to pose serious hazards to the health of the American public." Patients, however, ...
Quality improvement activities We use different strategies to improve the quality, safety, and accessibility of healthcare for our members. They're designed to look at different types of healthcare experiences. We monitor and evaluate: The quality of clinical services our members receive ...
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Quality improvement (QI) is embedded in the fabric of successful healthcare organisations across the world, with healthcare professionals increasingly expected to develop and lead improvement as a core part of their clinical responsibilities. As a result, QI is rapidly becoming a feature of the educ...
Despite awareness of inequities in healthcare quality, little is known about strategies that have the potential to improve the quality of healthcare for ethnic minority populations. For those interested in quality improvement, there is a need for an evaluation and synthesis of the strategies proven ...
A key characteristic of healthcare systems that deliver high quality and cost performance in a sustainable way is a systematic approach to capacity and capability building for quality improvement [2,3,4,5]. Quality improvement (QI) can be defined as: securing understanding of the complex health...
Design, Setting, and Participants Quality improvement initiative for care transitions by health care and social services personnel and Medicare Quality Improvement Organization staff in defined geographic areas, with monitoring by community-specific and aggregate control charts and evaluation with pre-post co...