Healthcare Quality Improvement

HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
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COLLECTION OF DATA
• The data was collected by the healthcare professionals and was stored by the hospital authority.
• The data collection was done by from the Electronic Health Records (HER). It is nothing but the digital
version of the paper chart of the patient.
• The patient record EHR records are real time records and at the same time the records are completely
patient-centred. EHR records contain the whole medical records of the patients as well as the medical history
of the patient.
• The data collected by the EHR system are beyond the normal clinical data collected by the normal standard
data collection method (O’Malley et al., 2015).
• In details, the EHR contains the whole medical history of the patient, medications, diagnoses, plans of the
treatment, immunization dates, images of the radiology, allergies and the laboratory test results.
• The most important advantage of using this system is that it allows the access of the evidence based tools to
the providers so that they can make better plan for providing patient care (Jensen et al., 2015).

Fields in the HER used to gather the
information
• The EHR involves different fields for the purpose of gathering of information.
• It includes a range of data involving the demographics, medicinal history, allergies, dates of the
immunization, results of the different laboratory tests, images of the radiology, values of the vital
signs of the patient, age and weight of the person.
• By collecting all such information it become easier for the healthcare professionals to do the
treatment of the patients who were suffering from chronic diseases (Bowles, Dykes & Demiris,
2015)
• .In this present case, the information gathered were the number of populations who suffered
from the diseases central line associated bloodstream infections, surgical site infections after
surgery of the patients and catheter associated urinary tract infections in the year 2015 and 2016.