Quality is the customer’s understanding of how goods and services fit for their reason and how it fulfills stated and unexpressed description. Excellence is a talent or skill that surpasses ordinary standards. Quality and excellence goes hand in hand, as one cannot function without the other. Quality and excellence are defined as delivering a high standard of care to patients, providing for their needs using a clinical approach, which abides by safety standards and is supported by scientific evidence. To achieve clinical excellence, care providers are responsible and accountable for health promotion, assessment, diagnosis, prescriptions, and management of patient problems within the clinical practice area through evidence based practice. Because
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Veracity means that the individual always exhibits honesty and truthfulness. Patients have the right to an honest and detailed explanation of their health or disease process and should be told as much as they want to know, keeping in mind their rights to decline information or treatments. Quality and excellence means providing holistic, patient safety centered care through evidence based practice. Clinical quality measures are tools used in clinical practice to measure the quality standard of health care services provided by the practitioners (Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2014). The clinical quality measures evaluate aspects of patient care including safety, health results, clinical procedures, care coordination, adequately following clinical guidelines, patient care engagement, and population/public health. The goal of quality measure is to ensure that care delivery is cost effective, timely care, safe, organized, and patient centered (Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, …show more content…
Diabetes is a disease characterized by high levels of blood glucose caused by problems in insulin production, working of the produced insulin, or even both, which results in serious complications and ultimately death (CDC, 2014). Type 2 diabetes, occurs when the body cannot produce enough insulin or make use of insulin the body produces effectively. Report shows that 29.1 million or 9.3% people in the U.S. have diabetes, 21.0 million diagnosed, 8.1 million undiagnosed, and Hispanic in the U.S. are nearly as twice 12.8% to have diabetes compared to non-Hispanic whites 7.6% (CDC, 2014). The prevalence of diabetes among Hispanic adults ages 20 and older is approximately 8.5% for Central and South Americans, 9.3% for Cubans, 13.9% for Mexican Americans, and 14.8% for Puerto Ricans (CDC, 2014). The estimated total cost of diabetes in the U.S. the year 2012 includes: direct and indirect cost $245 billion, direct medical cost 176 billion, and indirect cost including disability, work loss, and premature death 69 billion (CDC, 2014). Borrell, Dallo, and White (2006) found that “Hispanics exhibited a significant relation between diabetes and having less than a high-school education,”
Veracity means that the individual always exhibits honesty and truthfulness. Patients have the right to an honest and detailed explanation of their health or disease process and should be told as much as they want to know, keeping in mind their rights to decline information or treatments. Quality and excellence means providing holistic, patient safety centered care through evidence based practice. Clinical quality measures are tools used in clinical practice to measure the quality standard of health care services provided by the practitioners (Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2014). The clinical quality measures evaluate aspects of patient care including safety, health results, clinical procedures, care coordination, adequately following clinical guidelines, patient care engagement, and population/public health. The goal of quality measure is to ensure that care delivery is cost effective, timely care, safe, organized, and patient centered (Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, …show more content…
Diabetes is a disease characterized by high levels of blood glucose caused by problems in insulin production, working of the produced insulin, or even both, which results in serious complications and ultimately death (CDC, 2014). Type 2 diabetes, occurs when the body cannot produce enough insulin or make use of insulin the body produces effectively. Report shows that 29.1 million or 9.3% people in the U.S. have diabetes, 21.0 million diagnosed, 8.1 million undiagnosed, and Hispanic in the U.S. are nearly as twice 12.8% to have diabetes compared to non-Hispanic whites 7.6% (CDC, 2014). The prevalence of diabetes among Hispanic adults ages 20 and older is approximately 8.5% for Central and South Americans, 9.3% for Cubans, 13.9% for Mexican Americans, and 14.8% for Puerto Ricans (CDC, 2014). The estimated total cost of diabetes in the U.S. the year 2012 includes: direct and indirect cost $245 billion, direct medical cost 176 billion, and indirect cost including disability, work loss, and premature death 69 billion (CDC, 2014). Borrell, Dallo, and White (2006) found that “Hispanics exhibited a significant relation between diabetes and having less than a high-school education,”