Practicing safety: a quality improvement intervention to test tools to enhance pediatric psychosocial care for children 0–3 years

Psychosocial Burden and its Relationship to Quality of Life for Cerebral Palsy Children: A Mothers Feedback

Objectives: To investigate the psychosocial burden among mothers and its relationship to quality of life for cerebral palsy children in Babylon Province/ Iraq. Methods: A descriptive correlational study was conducted on a sample of 150 mothers who had child with cerebral palsy. A non-probability sampling strategy was used to choose a purposive sample of 150 mothers. According to the Babel Heal...

Quality improvement in pediatric care

We often overlook the importance of several safety issues such as identification of patients, timeout procedure, hand hygiene, handoff communication, and many others. This ignorance, along with many other issues, leads to medical error being ranked as a third leading cause of death in the U.S. Consequently, quality improvement (QI) has become one of the major subjects in healthcare despite a re...

Section VI: Tools for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Chapter 44. Tools and Strategies for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

A Quality Improvement Intervention to Increase

OBJECTIVE: To improve access to new pediatric endocrinology appointments in an urban academic hospital faculty-based practice. METHODS: Three strategies were implemented to increase the number of appointment slots: new patient appointments were protected from conversion to follow-up appointments; all physicians, including senior faculty, were scheduled to see 3 to 4 new patients per session; an...

A quality improvement intervention to increase access to pediatric subspecialty practice.

OBJECTIVE To improve access to new pediatric endocrinology appointments in an urban academic hospital faculty-based practice. METHODS Three strategies were implemented to increase the number of appointment slots: new patient appointments were protected from conversion to follow-up appointments; all physicians, including senior faculty, were scheduled to see 3 to 4 new patients per session; an...