Leadership for Quality Improvement | Healthcare

Running head: LEADERSHIP FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Leadership for Quality Improvement
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Three rate-based measurements of quality.............................................................................2
Describe the importance of each measure to a chosen clinical organization and setting.......4
Risks associated with each measure.......................................................................................6
Relate each measure to patient safety, to the cost of poor quality, and the overall cost of
healthcare...............................................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Quality management is critical in every organisation irrespective of the industries are
they belong. Like every other organisation, healthcare management also requires the
management of quality in every aspect. Quality management is mostly instigated to improve
the effectiveness of all the services provided by healthcare organizations to the patients and
other customers. The services that are presented to the patients requiring intensive to
traditional healthcare is comprised of the quality of services offered to them. The large
entities of the healthcare systems are fundamental because the management of decent quality
in these kinds of services induces intensive care for the people requiring assistance with their
health ("Quality Measures | CMS", 2019). It is a process about the measurement of quality in
healthcare that utilizes the patient health data and another resourceful information about the
services provided so that the evaluation of the performance of the services offered to the
patients can be measured to recognize them surpassing or reaching the quality standards. In
this particular report, 3 of these quality indicator factors, namely, Prevention Quality
Indicators or PQI, Inpatient Quality Indicators or IQI and Patient Safety Indicators or PSI
would be analyzed. This would provide a detailed report on how each of these measurements
of quality is important in healthcare based on their use in clinical organizations. These are
associated with measuring the relation of each of these quality measures with the poor service
quality investment, patient safety, and inclusive healthcare cost concerning the factors
assuring quality measurement, which would also be explained.
Three rate-based measurements of quality
Prevention Quality Indicators or PQI: The Prevention Quality Indicators or PQI
are the measurements that help in identifying the potentially avoidable cases where
Ambulatory Case Sensitive Conditions improve hospitalizations for ACSCs. These

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measurement of quality of healthcare services mostly are relying on the discharge data of
hospitals so that the reflecting on issues where Ambulatory care in a geographical area is
accessed can be assessed about the quality of services provided ("HCAHPS: Patients'
Perspectives of Care Survey | CMS", 2019). In simple words, it can be said that it is the
quality measurements of the factors by which the accession of health care in the community
can be defined by the way they can be accessed. The more the access is given to the people,
the better the quality of services provided by the Ambulatory care is defined in this particular
quality measurement factor.
Inpatient Quality Indicators or IQI: The inpatient quality indicators are also
measurements of quality that defines the healthcare services provided to a patient through the
discharge data presented on the perspective of the QoS that the patients receive. Deserve
mostly handled with the indicators from provider level volume that decide the proximate,
indirect and direct measures of quality services offered to the patient based on shared
evidence. This quality measurement factor provides a piece of specific evidence that the
hospital has been performing extremely good when it comes to providing services to critical
patients. The evidence-based quality measurement factor would offer better exposure to the
people in the healthcare industry. Whatever services they are contributing to the patient
during the betterment of health for the patient, are all assessed according to the quality of
services provided during the discharge ("Quality Initiatives - General Information | CMS",
2019). This would be a better quality indicator for the services provided to a patient during
the time they are being created based on records taken in real-time. These are made out of
generated models and composite indicators and summarizes how the hospital has been
providing services. The information includes the mortality rate in the hospital, which helps in
minimizing the data from individual patients and lower the volume theoretically allowing the
hospital to have better discrimination in the industry among the other competitive ones. Thus,