Analysis of the Effect of Continuous Quality Improvement Measures on Nosocomial Infection Control in Operating Room

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Nosocomial Infection ◽  
Infection Control ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Continuous Quality Improvement ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Improvement Measures

Outcomes, Regulation, and Quality Improvement

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Metzner ◽  
Karen B. Domino
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Pulse Oximetry ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Continuous Quality Improvement ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Remote Locations ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
National Patient ◽  
Improve Patient

To improve the safety of patients undergoing procedures in remote locations, practitioners should be familiar with rigorous continuous quality improvement systems, national and regulatory patient safety efforts, as well as complications related to anesthesia/sedation in out of the operating room (OOOR) settings. This chapter discusses severe outcomes and mechanisms of injury in OOOR locations, national patient safety and regulatory efforts that may be adapted to the OOOR setting, and quality improvement efforts essential to track outcomes and improve patient safety. Patient safety can be improved by adherence to respiratory monitoring (e.g., pulse oximetry and capnography), sedation standards/guidelines and national patient safety and regulatory efforts, and development of vigorous quality improvement systems to measure outcomes and make changes.

Continuous Quality Improvement in a Hospital System: Implications for Hospital Epidemiology

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 288-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Decker ◽  
William E. Scheckler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Infection Control ◽  
Continuous Quality Improvement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Hospital Epidemiology ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Key Steps

The purpose of this report is to describe the “Continuous Quality Improvement” (CQI) paradigm as adopted by one of the 30 largest hospital systems in the United States and to explore the implications for hospital epidemiology and infection control. Hospital epidemiology has its roots in the application of epidemiologic tools and principles to the problems of nosocomial infections. Key steps in the development of hospital epidemiology came from physicians in Great Britain and the United States who were part of the public health systems of those countries. In the United States, physicians trained in infectious diseases as a subspecialty occupy the position of hospital epidemiologist in most university, Veterans Affairs, and larger community teaching hospitals. Some of these individuals argue that hospital epidemiologists should continue to focus principally on infection control. Others are just as convinced that the premises and knowledge of epidemiology honed by experiences in infection control are very well suited to many other problems facing hospitals in the 1990s.

Anesthesia and Sedation Outside of the Operating Room: Outcomes, Regulation, and Quality Improvement

2011 ◽  
pp. 62-73
Author(s):  
Julia Metzner ◽  
Karen B. Domino
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Continuous Quality Improvement ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Anesthesia Care ◽  
Remote Locations ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
National Patient ◽  
Improve Patient

Providing anesthesia care in areas outside the operating room (OOOR) has numerous challenges, including an unfamiliar environment; inadequate anesthesia support; deficient resources; cramped, dark, small rooms; and variability of monitoring modalities. In addition, sicker patients are undergoing more complex procedures in areas that may be physically located far from the OR environment. To improve safety of patients undergoing procedures in remote locations, practitioners need to be familiar with development of rigorous continuous quality improvement systems, national and regulatory patient safety efforts, as well as complications related to anesthesia/sedation in OOOR settings. This chapter will identify severe outcomes and mechanisms of injury in these remote locations, national patient safety and regulatory efforts that may be adapted to the OOOR setting, and quality improvement efforts essential to track outcomes and improve patient safety.

scholarly journals Importance of Quality in Medical and Dental Institutes

2019 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 159-161
Author(s):  
Kiran Fatima Mehboob Ali Bana
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Continuous Quality Improvement ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Accreditation Council ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
The World ◽  
Optimal Patient Care ◽  
Improvement Measures

There is a dire need to incorporate quality improvement measures in medical education of our country as now worldwide the paradigm is shifted from the students’ outcome to the continuous quality improvement (CQI) measures. The ultimate goal of CQI is to provide optimal patient care. This is the responsibility of the accreditation council (PMDC) to ensure the true application of quality improvement indicators in medical institutes. The quality document introduced by the PMDC is the true reflection of the world accreditation bodies WFME, WHO. By ensuring the true application of this quality document, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council will be able to compete with the International standards of medical education through competent future physicians.

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