Falls in Hospitals: Six Sigma Approach for Quality and Safety

Falls in Hospitals

Table of content
Introduction
Nominated Approach or intervention that addressed the quality and
safety
The rationale of approach/intervention to address the problem
Facilitators to the implementation of strategy
Barriers of Six sigma
Way of implementing the approach or intervention into practice
Conclusion
References

Introduction
Falls in hospital refers to an unplanned descent to the floor with or
without injury to the patient.
It consists that fact that a fall may results into lacerations or internal
bleeding, leads to increase in health care utilisation and fractures.
However, falls are responsible for creating severe injuries sometimes die
that physicians and other care professionals should take care of quality as
well as safety of people in healthcare organisations.

Nominated Approach or intervention that
addressed the quality and safety issue
The approach of addressing the quality & safety issue is Six sigma which
is effective to improve patient outcomes.
The set of management techniques as well as tools that are designed for
improvisation within business activities by eliminating probability of
errors and reduction within variability of processes is defined as six
sigma.