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Essay on Patient Safety and Quality Management

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Added on  2020-05-16

Essay on Patient Safety and Quality Management

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Running head: QUALITY AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT Quality and safety managementName of the studentUniversity nameAuthor’s note
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1QUALITY AND SAFETY MANAGEMENTDiscussion of safety management and patient quality The current essay deals with patient safety and quality management within a hospitalsetting. In order to enhance the quality of patient care a number of effective measures hadbeen planned by the hospital from time to time. Some of these could be implemented asquality control tools and reflects the safety culture within a hospital. In this respect, a qualitycheck could be run on a frequent basis with the help of evidence based tools (Winters et al.,2016). One such measure which is used my present hospital set up is the integration ofhealth information technology (HIT), which are used by the physicians as well as the nursingprofessionals to directly receive laboratory data in their ONC-certified EHR system. Theimplementation of the same within the outpatient department (OPD) could help in theprovision of effective care and support services in the future. Additionally, safe surgerychecklist used in outpatient wards of hospital can help in the prevention of untoward post-operative infections (Pronovost, Sutcliffe, Basu & Dixon-Woods, 2017). Hospital survey onpatient safety culture on an annual basis could help in reflection upon safety standardsemployed by the hospital units (Carayon et al., 2014). In this regard, data collected by theofficial US government across the year were focused upon which could help in thedevelopment of an effective action plan.Moreover, by focussing upon the national and state healthcare data we could analysethe patient safety and quality management loopholes within hospitals in the United States. Inthis respect, the health data have been divided into several categories such as reportingnumber of cases of bloodstream infection after surgery, broken hip from a fall after surgery,serious blood clots, pressure sores after surgery. In this respect, a number of alarming figureshave been noted. The highest number of death cases has been noted for hospitaladministration with pneumonia in children and the elderly. This has been followed by the
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