3. Communication topics in healthcare quality and patient safety

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annegret F. Hannawa
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
Quality And Patient Safety

scholarly journals Human factors systems approach to healthcare quality and patient safety

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Carayon ◽  
Tosha B. Wetterneck ◽  
A. Joy Rivera-Rodriguez ◽  
Ann Schoofs Hundt ◽  
Peter Hoonakker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
Quality And Patient Safety

STATE OF HEALTHCARE QUALITY AND PATIENT SAFETY IN PAKISTAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Mairaj Shah ◽  
Shagufta Perveen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
National Healthcare ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
National Quality ◽  
Quality And Patient Safety

Many low and middle income countries have developed their own national accreditation standards and accreditation systems for regulating and improving the quality of healthcare services. Healthcare quality is defined as the degree to which health services to individuals and populations increases the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge. This paper attempts to assess the state of Pakistan's healthcare quality and patient safety in a structured way using Donabedian's model. Some of the key specific challenges identified for Pakistan's healthcare quality initiatives are lack of national healthcare accreditation system and integrated national guidelines, policies and procedures on healthcare quality and patient safety. Lack of national quality care indicators. Absence of an organizational culture that holds people accountable and lack of pre-service and in-service training for health staff in quality care management and leadership with little contextual research on quality care initiatives. Possible ways to  improve the state of health care quality in Pakistan may include (i) up gradation and implementation of policies and procedures that regulate quality and patient safety issues in healthcare settings across the country (ii) introduction of a national healthcare accreditation programme across the nation (iii) development of networks and consortia between public and private sectors in Pakistan (iv) capacity building of health care professionals in quality and patient safety (v) Formulation of quality improvement teams at national and provincial level (vi) development of a culture of accountability and ownership (vii) learning from experiences of other countries and implementation quality care tools and locally validated indicators.

Prevention as a key measure to improve healthcare quality and patient safety

2013 ◽  
pp. 66-78
Author(s):  
Dominique M Vandijck ◽  
Stijn I Blot ◽  
Sonia O Labeau ◽  
Dirk P Vogelaers
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
Quality And Patient Safety

scholarly journals Health Information Technology in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety: Literature Review (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue S Feldman ◽  
Scott Buchalter ◽  
Leslie W. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Health Information Technology ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Health It ◽  
Quality And Patient Safety

BACKGROUND The area of healthcare quality and patient safety is starting to use health information technology to prevent reportable events, identify them before they become issues, and act on events that are thought to be unavoidable. As healthcare organizations begin to explore the use of health information technology in this realm, it is often unclear where fiscal and human efforts should be focused. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to provide a foundation for understanding where to focus health information technology fiscal and human resources as well as expectations for the use of health information technology in healthcare quality and patient safety. METHODS A literature review was conducted to identify peer-reviewed publications reporting on the actual use of health information technology in healthcare quality and patient safety. Inductive thematic analysis with open coding was used to categorize a total of 41 studies. Three pre-set categories were used: prevention, identification, and action. Three additional categories were formed through coding: challenges, outcomes, and location. RESULTS This study identifies five main categories across seven study settings. A majority of the studies used health IT for identification and prevention of healthcare quality and patient safety issues. In this realm, alerts, clinical decision support, and customized health IT solutions were most often implemented. Implementation, interface design, and culture were most often noted as challenges. CONCLUSIONS This study provides valuable information as organizations determine where they stand to get the most “bang for their buck” relative to health IT for quality and patient safety. Knowing what implementations are being effectivity used by other organizations helps with fiscal and human resource planning as well as managing expectations relative to cost, scope, and outcomes. The findings from this scan of the literature suggest that having organizational champion leaders that can shepherd implementation, impact culture, and bridge knowledge with developers would be a valuable resource allocation to consider.

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