scholarly journals Furthering the quality agenda in Aboriginal community controlled health services: understanding the relationship between accreditation, continuous quality improvement and national key performance indicator reporting

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly Sibthorpe ◽  
Karen Gardner ◽  
Daniel McAullay

A rapidly expanding interest in quality in the Aboriginal-community-controlled health sector has led to widespread uptake of accreditation using more than one set of standards, a proliferation of continuous quality improvement programs and the introduction of key performance indicators. As yet, there has been no overarching logic that shows how they relate to each other, with consequent confusion within and outside the sector. We map the three approaches to the Framework for Performance Assessment in Primary Health Care, demonstrating their key differences and complementarity. There needs to be greater attention in both policy and practice to the purposes and alignment of the three approaches if they are to embed a system-wide focus that supports quality improvement at the service level.

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 286-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukasz Mazur ◽  
Bhishamjit Chera ◽  
Prithima Mosaly ◽  
Kinley Taylor ◽  
Gregg Tracton ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Fernando LLANOS ZAVALAGA

We revised briefly: The origins of audit in the health sector and the historical variation of this concept. This concept has switched from a sanctional tool to a methodology of quality assurance and continuous quality improvement. International trends and the so called Evidence-based audit are also analized.


2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd A. Boyle ◽  
Certina Ho ◽  
Neil J. MacKinnon ◽  
Thomas Mahaffey ◽  
Jeffrey M. Taylor

Standardized continuous quality improvement (CQI) programs combine Web-based technologies and standardized improvement processes, tools, and expectations to enable quality-related events (QREs) occurring in individual pharmacies to be shared with pharmacies in other jurisdictions. Because standardized CQI programs are still new to community pharmacy, little is known about how they impact medication safety. This research identifies key aspects of medication safety that change as a result of implementing a standardized CQI program. Fifty-three community pharmacies in Nova Scotia, Canada, adopted the SafetyNET-Rx standardized CQI program in April 2010. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) Canada’s Medication Safety Self-Assessment (MSSA) survey was administered to these pharmacies before and 1 year into their use of the SafetyNET-Rx program. The nonparametric Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to explore where changes in patient safety occurred as a result of SafetyNETRx use. Significant improvements occurred with quality processes and risk management, staff competence, and education, and communication of drug orders and other information. Patient education, environmental factors, and the use of devices did not show statistically significant changes. As CQI programs are designed to share learning from QREs, it is reassuring to see that the largest improvements are related to quality processes, risk management, staff competence, and education.


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