Five facts about surgical safety — Complications after inpatient operations occur in up to 25% of patients. The reported crude…
February 6, 2010
December 12, 2009
Accreditation; The Whole Nine Yards
1) Gain a knowledge about Accreditation What does the accreditation mean? To healthcare institution, governing board, leadership, and staff. The…
November 29, 2009
Healthcare Accreditation?
Fundamentally healthcare accreditation is about improving how care is delivered to patients. The demand for healthcare quality has risen due to various driving…
October 11, 2009
Types of Data – A Practical Guide for Quality Professional
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:
March 17, 2009
Juran road map to quality
Juran’s Quality Planning Road Map can be used by individuals and teams throughout the world as a checklist for understanding…
March 16, 2009
Juran’s Quality Triolgy
The Quality Trilogy emphasizes the roles of quality planning, quality control, and quality improvement. Quality planning’s purpose is to provide…
December 12, 2008
Quality Gurus
Concerns for quality and process control is nothing new. Historians have traced the concept as far back as 3000 B.C. …
March 1, 2008
PDCA (Deming Cycle)
Known as the Deming Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle, this concept was invented by Shewhart and popularized by Deming. This approach is…
February 22, 2008
Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge
One of Deming’s essential theories is his System of Profound Knowledge, His knowledge system consists of four interrelated parts: Theory…
February 20, 2008
The Rise of Deming
THE RISE OF DEMING’S INFLUENCE The son of a small-town lawyer, Deming (a teacher and consultant in statistical studies)…
April 5, 2007
Clean Care is Safer Care
The first challenge launched by the World Alliance for Patient Safety focusing on the prevention of healthcare-associated infection. The vision was…
March 20, 2007
Crospy’s Four Absolutes
Crosby adopted his basic theories about quality in four Absolutes of Quality Management as follows: Quality means conformance to requirements,…
October 21, 2006
Does Ignorance Begets Confidence? – Dunning-Kruger effect
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they…
October 14, 2006
I Wore the Juice – Unskilled and Unaware of it
On one fine morning in Pittsburgh (PA), on April 19, 1995, a man aged 44, known by the name McArthur…