Importance Of Quality In Health Care

The common goal of all health care providers is to deliver high quality health care to patients. Evaluating quality and performance of a health care organization will allow for identification of measures of efficiency in that organization. Assessment of health care quality involves the regular collection of data that is used to measure the performance of health care organizations to ensure desired results are being achieved. Quality measures evaluate care across different health care settings. These include doctors’ offices, imaging facilities to hospitals. Measurement of performance is important for quality improvement. Preventing the overuse, underuse and misuse of health care services, ensuring patient safety, ensuring that health care …show more content…
These measures assess the health outcome of the patient whether intended or unintended as a result of care received. They evaluate if the goals of care have been achieved. Outcome measures include mortality, morbidity and health related quality life issues. Developing outcome measures comes with numerous challenges. Gathering data about a particular outcome, and attaining detailed information only found in patient medical records can be difficult and costly to obtain. Outcome measures reflect the needs that are important to patients and should be therefore be developed with patient needs and preferences in mind. It is also important to remember the impact social determinants of health and differences in patient population when developing health outcome measure. The last measure of quality improvement is patient experience measures. These measures offer feedback on the patients’ experience based on care they received. They measure not only the interpersonal aspects of care but also about information provided by physicians, to the ability of them being able to make appointments for care. Patient experience measures should be representative of the needs, values and preferences of patients. Therefore it is important that the patient is kept in mind when developing patient experience measures. These measures are being more relied upon as an element of health care …show more content…
It can be understood of as a roadmap for solving problems and improving products in health care services. The defining process involves identifying and clarifying an issue. It also includes identifying goals and outlining the target process. Our next step is deciding the parameters to be measured, the methods in which they are going to be quantified, collecting the data and carrying out the measurements. Our third process is that of analysis. It involves identifying gaps between actual and goal performance. The fourth process is improvement. It encompasses identifying, devising and implementing potential solutions to issues identified. The fifth and final process is the controlling process. Here a suitable monitoring plan is developed. The solution that was implemented is observed over time and adjustments are made as needed. of outcome measures include: What was the amputation