Hcs 588 Qi Plan Week 1
Quality Improvement Report
Kathleen Lepley
HCS/588
January 14, 2013
Patricia Wolcott
Quality Improvement Report
Quality Improvement (QI) is an organizational approach leading to the quality of patient care and patient services through use of specific guidelines, principles, and methods to ensure quality of care for every patient and health care facility throughout the world. Quality outcomes focus on the principles of quality management. These measurements investigate the quality of care, patient outcomes and consumer needs, through being part of the participant group. This quality improvement discussion will review the foundational frameworks of QI and explanation of each framework in detail. Included in this QI report will be an explanation of the differences in stakeholder definitions of quality will be identified. Also the explanation of the role of various clinicians and patients in QI will be reviewed. In addition, an explanation of why quality management is needed in the health care industry highlighted. Explaining what areas must be monitored to ensure quality improvement standards addressed. Furthermore, identifying roles of the various accrediting and regulatory organizations will be evaluated. Finally, this QI report will identify helpful resources and organizations that affect QI and outcomes.
Explain the Foundational Frameworks of QI Continued success of an organization is dependent upon the foundation strength on how the organization is built upon systems, process, tools and types of methods used by the organization to achieve benchmark standards (Ransom, Joshi, Nash, & Ransom, 2008). Strength and principles of a standard or product is defined by the sustainability of the product, concept, or belief. Frameworks consist of multiple dimensions of performance, organization factors and relationships. In addition, a framework is built upon current frameworks or different approaches developed to achieve successful quality improvement and
Kathleen Lepley
HCS/588
January 14, 2013
Patricia Wolcott
Quality Improvement Report
Quality Improvement (QI) is an organizational approach leading to the quality of patient care and patient services through use of specific guidelines, principles, and methods to ensure quality of care for every patient and health care facility throughout the world. Quality outcomes focus on the principles of quality management. These measurements investigate the quality of care, patient outcomes and consumer needs, through being part of the participant group. This quality improvement discussion will review the foundational frameworks of QI and explanation of each framework in detail. Included in this QI report will be an explanation of the differences in stakeholder definitions of quality will be identified. Also the explanation of the role of various clinicians and patients in QI will be reviewed. In addition, an explanation of why quality management is needed in the health care industry highlighted. Explaining what areas must be monitored to ensure quality improvement standards addressed. Furthermore, identifying roles of the various accrediting and regulatory organizations will be evaluated. Finally, this QI report will identify helpful resources and organizations that affect QI and outcomes.
Explain the Foundational Frameworks of QI Continued success of an organization is dependent upon the foundation strength on how the organization is built upon systems, process, tools and types of methods used by the organization to achieve benchmark standards (Ransom, Joshi, Nash, & Ransom, 2008). Strength and principles of a standard or product is defined by the sustainability of the product, concept, or belief. Frameworks consist of multiple dimensions of performance, organization factors and relationships. In addition, a framework is built upon current frameworks or different approaches developed to achieve successful quality improvement and
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