Quality and Safety Management: Hospital Report Analysis

This report examines patient safety and quality management within a hospital setting, focusing on the implementation of effective measures to enhance patient care. It highlights the use of health information technology (HIT) and safe surgery checklists as tools for improving patient outcomes and preventing post-operative infections. The report also discusses the importance of hospital surveys on patient safety culture and the analysis of national and state healthcare data, including the reporting of bloodstream infections, blood clots, and pressure sores, to identify areas for improvement. The report also emphasizes the significance of patient age and immunization rates. Overall, the report offers a detailed overview of the current practices and potential improvements in hospital quality and safety management.

Running head: QUALITY AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT
Quality and safety management
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Discussion of safety management and patient quality
The current essay deals with patient safety and quality management within a hospital
setting. In order to enhance the quality of patient care a number of effective measures had
been planned by the hospital from time to time. Some of these could be implemented as
quality control tools and reflects the safety culture within a hospital. In this respect, a quality
check 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 of health
information technology (HIT), which are used by the physicians as well as the nursing
professionals to directly receive laboratory data in their ONC-certified EHR system. The
implementation of the same within the outpatient department (OPD) could help in the
provision of effective care and support services in the future. Additionally, safe surgery
checklist used in outpatient wards of hospital can help in the prevention of untoward post-
operative infections (Pronovost, Sutcliffe, Basu & Dixon-Woods, 2017). Hospital survey on
patient safety culture on an annual basis could help in reflection upon safety standards
employed by the hospital units (Carayon et al., 2014). In this regard, data collected by the
official US government across the year were focused upon which could help in the
development of an effective action plan.
Moreover, by focussing upon the national and state healthcare data we could analyse
the patient safety and quality management loopholes within hospitals in the United States. In
this respect, the health data have been divided into several categories such as reporting
number 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 figures
have been noted. The highest number of death cases has been noted for hospital
administration with pneumonia in children and the elderly. This has been followed by the

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highest number of post-operative respiratory failure rate. However, the age of the patient also
forms a governing factor in such cases (refer to comparison data for complications and
death).
In my opinion, healthcare surveys across hospitals focussing upon immunization rates could
be used for collection of data, which could help in reflecting upon the precautionary measures
for the advancement of the disease.

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