Risk Assessment and Quality in Health

Running head: RISK ASSESSMENT AND QUALITY IN HEALTH
RISK ASSESSMENT AND QUALITY IN HEALTH
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Introduction
Healthcare organizations strive to provide the best of medical facilities to the patients
all over the world. In order to ensure proper disposal of the facilities, it is extremely
important to maintain a frequent quality check and ensure that the services being dispensed
are up to the mark (Bernardo et al.2015). This assignment deals with the critical analysis of
‘ABC hospital’ and devise an innovation in terms of quality improvement using the PDCA
cycle.
Background:
The ‘ABC’ hospital is one of the most renowned hospitals that has an excellent group
of doctors working for the organization. The hospital has a strict hierarchal structure and
operations are carried out in accordance of the same classification. The first level of hierarchy
is occupied by the administrative post holders such as the board of directors headed by the
CEO. Under the first classification is a segmentation of various portfolios dealing with
business operation, emergency care, ancillary services and customer support. The hospital has
an efficient quality control unit as well that is responsible for monitoring and double
verifying the pharmaceutical products being used at the hospital (Clark et al.2013). However,
it has been observed that despite maintaining the quality check regularly there are some
unidentified lacunas that are not addressed adequately with the parameters of quality control
standards. The identified quality concern with respect to ‘ABC hospital’ is the problem
associated with the safe disposal of medical wastes to minimise contamination or
transmission of infections.

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Application of PDCA cycle:
Fig: The PDCA Cycle
The PDCA cycle or the Plan, Do, Check and Act cycle is the most famous business
tool that is used to check and compare the efficiency of a new business strategy that is
expected to be introduced for the expand the profit margins of the company (De Oliveira
2013). However, it is critical here to note here that the PDCA cycle is not restricted to be
used only as a business tool that would take care of the innovation in terms of business
strategies. The PDCA cycle in this assignment has been used to devise a new approach to
deal with the problems associated with the safe disposal of biological waste and hence it can
be commented that in this context the cycle has been used to study the effectiveness of a new
quality assurance strategy (Johnson 2016). The following sections would deal with the
Do Plan
ActCheck