Decision Making in Healthcare: Analysis of Protocols

This report delves into the complexities of decision-making within the healthcare sector, specifically examining conflicts that arise among physicians regarding cancer treatment protocols. It emphasizes the importance of core competencies, such as patient-centered care, which involves understanding and addressing individual patient needs, and fostering effective communication. The report also highlights the significance of interdisciplinary teams, quality improvement initiatives, and the utilization of informatics to support informed decision-making. Furthermore, it discusses the necessity of employee-based practices and the application of quality improvement to ensure patient safety and improve treatment outcomes. By addressing these key areas, the report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the strategies and approaches that can be employed to mitigate conflicts and enhance the overall quality of healthcare delivery, particularly in the context of cancer treatment.

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Decision Making
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There are different role of the health care manager as there are different kinds of
conflicts that can arise between the different physicians from the different disciplines. There
can be different conflicts between the physicians regarding the protocol for the cancer
patients.
There are different core competencies of the health care professionals regardless of
the discipline as well as to meet the different demands of the health care system in the
hospitals. The health care professionals have to perform certain activities as to emphasize on
the improvement of the quality as well as informatics that are discussed as follows:
 Providing the patient centered care as this will help in identifying about the
differences of the patients, their expressed needs (Drummond et al. 2015). It is the
duty of the health care professionals to listen to the cancer patients and proper
communication is required with the different patients and educates the patients who
are not aware about the different treatments that are available in the market as to cure
cancer entirely.
 Secondly, proper working in the interdisciplinary teams is essential as this will help in
providing collaboration among the entire team (Folland, Goodman & Stano, 2016).
This will help in providing integrate care in the team of the physicians wherein there
is issues in the decision makings. This will help in ensuring that the care is reliable as
well as continuous in nature. Proper employee based practice is required as this will
help the physicians in understanding the values of the customers to the entire extent
that is feasible in nature.
 Proper application of the quality improvement is essential in nature as this is another
system that will help in understanding as well as implementation of the safety design

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principles. This will help the health care professionals in identifying the hazards as
well as errors in the entire process (Betancourt et al. 2016).
 The physicians need to understand about the process as well as the outcomes in
relation to the needs of the cancer patients and this will help them in providing
treatment to them. Proper measurement is required in order to understand the quality
of the care that has to be provided to the cancer patients and proper objectives has to
be adopted in improving the quality of treatment that is provided to the patients and
make them in understanding the protocol (Pett, 2015).
 Lastly, proper utilization of the informatics is essential in nature as this will help in
properly communicate with the patients and this will support the decision making
process of the doctors using proper information technology.
These are the different core competencies that are required in order to reduce the conflicts
between the different physicians regarding the treatment protocols for the cancer patients.

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