Hospital quality management: a shape-shifting cornerstone in the foundation for high-quality health care

Hospital quality management: a shape-shifting cornerstone in the foundation for high-quality health care.

A century ago, hospital quality management was almost nonexistent. Quality committees were primarily chroniclers. One excerpt from a hospital quality committee report at an American academic center might represent the best of hospital quality management practice then: ‘Autoclave did not rise >212°. Interns had to carry patients to and from the operating rooms owing to lack of orderlies. Rubber ...

Prevention: the cornerstone of quality health care.

Safety as a Foundation of High - Quality Health Care

● Use the basic terminology and vocabulary of patient safety in health care PURPOSE The purpose of this chapter is to provide all health professionals with the core theory and knowledge they need to understand and practice patient care using patient safety principles. This core knowledge underpins and supports the remaining chapters and case studies. Every chapter that follows incorporates thes...

Improving the Quality of The Integrated Care for The Elderly in A Comprehensive Health Center

Objectives: In elderly care provided by health centers, healthy elderly are neglected in care and education. This qualitative study aimed to standardize healthy ageing care. Methods & Materials: This community-based participatory research with 4 steps (problem detection-design of change programs-implementation of interventions-evaluation) was conducted from 1395 to 1397 in Motahari Health Cent...

Quality Management for Health Care Delivery

All rights reserved. The reproduction or use of this work in any form or in any information storage and retrieval system is forbidden without the express, written permission of the publisher. Printed in the USA. iii The Quality Measurement and Management Project (QMMP) is a hospital industry sponsored initiative to develop quality monitoring and management toots of choice for hospitals. iv QMMP...