These indicators can be used by healthcare providers, policymakers, and researchers to assess the performance of healthcare systems and identify areas for improvement. Some common healthcare indicators include:
Healthcare as a service is very complex, but it’s not necessarily different from other industries; for a better healthcare performance…
A shared patient safety problem worldwide is the lack of accurate and complete information about patients’ medicines when their care…
While any medication potentially can cause harm, a select group of drugs—high-alert medications (HAMs)—carries a higher risk of patient injury.…
A Run Chart is the most basic tool used to display how a process performs over time. It is a…
A Histogram is a vertical bar chart that depicts the distribution of a set of data. Unlike Run Charts or…
A Pareto Chart is “a series of bars whose heights reflect the frequency or impact of problems. The bars are…
Nominal Group Technique, or NGT, is a weighted ranking method that enables a group to generate and prioritize a large…
Multivoting is a group decision-making technique used to reduce a long list of items to a manageable number by means…
The clinical audit process seeks to identify areas for service improvement, develop & carry out action plans to rectify or…
Clinical audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care…
An Affinity Diagram is a tool that gathers large amounts of language data (ideas, opinions, issues) and organizes them into…
Brainstorming is a tool used by teams to bring out the ideas of each individual and present them in an…
The success of many treatments and activities within healthcare facilities depends on ensuring that correct patient identity has been established. Patient…
A leader is a person who has a vision, a drive and a commitment to achieve that vision, and the…
1- Identify Hazard 2- Who? 3- Analysis 4- Register 5- Action Plan 6- Re-assess 1- Identify Hazard what can go…
Psychologist Bruce Tuckman published his “Forming Storming Norming Performing” model in 1965. This model describes the phases which teams tend to…
Once there lived a farmer who owned land along the seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands. Most people were…
These indicators can be used by healthcare providers, policymakers, and researchers to assess the performance of healthcare systems and identify areas for improvement. Some common healthcare indicators include:
These indicators can be used by healthcare providers, policymakers, and researchers to assess the performance of healthcare systems and identify areas for improvement. Some common healthcare indicators include:
Definitions Fall Loss of upright position that results in landing on the floor, ground or an object or furniture or…
Fish-bone Diagram is a quality tool that identifies many possible causes for an effect or problem. It can be used…
Concerns for quality and process control is nothing new. Historians have traced the concept as far back as 3000 B.C. …