Quality assurance

Negligent doctors come in all shapes and sizes, ethnicities, and religions. Even they do not even realize that some of the decisions they make, no matter how petite they may appear to be at first, can greatly impact their career as a whole. The American Medical Association conducted three large studies over the past 30 years, and has documented a distressingly consistent rate of medical mishaps in the U.S. By one measure, such negligence in American hospitals may result in 80,000 deaths each…

Introduction Today smog is a visible type of air pollution that appears in a thick, foggy haze in the air. There are many sources where smog come from for example, industrial fumes, vehicle emissions, and even comes from paints and hairsprays. In many cities smog is the culprit from vehicle emissions. Smog can be composed of many other chemical compounds thus coming from many different sources. In this paper there will be a discussion of the harmful impacts of smog and what the United States…

Pollution No Worse in Israel than in Europe, Ministry Says that the high level of air pollution in Israeli cities is caused mainly by motor vehicles. The high level of air pollution in Israeli cities is caused mainly by motor vehicles, but the air quality isn’t any worse than in large cities in Europe and Canada, according to a report by the Environmental Protection Ministry. Air pollution in Israel has decreased in recent years, according to the report for 2014, the first of its kind in Israel.…

aspects. This includes holding the SMEs National Awards Competition to select the best SMEs (OSMEP, 2014) in accordance with a set of criteria from the Thailand Quality Award (TQA) which is considered a world-class award. The fundamentals of the technical and decision-making processes are identical to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) of the United States of America, as the MBNQA is being adopted by many countries around the world (TQA, 2014). The SMES National Award sets…

Baldrige served in this position until his death on July 25, 1987. Due to Baldrige's excellent managerial skills and his contributions leading to improvements in the economy, the Quality Improvement Act of 1987 was renamed the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award after his death. The purpose of The Baldrige National Quality Award is to give recognition to businesses and organizations for their outstanding and excellent performance and service. “The award was originally intended for…

The Clean Air Act was enacted in 1963 with its predecessor being the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955. Its predecessor was the first act dealing with pollution in America. The Air Pollution Control Act was mostly do to with monitoring while the new Clean Air Act was the first act aimed at controlling pollution. Throughout the year this act has undergone numerous major revisions, such as the ones in 1970, 1977, and 1990. At first the act was a just for research into techniques for monitoring and…

Air pollution started getting real noticeable after more and more factors were being built every day. With over 100,000 factores just in Canada you can see why air pollution is a big factor for how are air quality is. This will affect people's health because we will be breathing air that has been contaminated. This can also affect the society because alerts will go out telling people that it's not safe to go outside. It's not just factors that are polluting the air, it's us humans that are…

What type of error occurred in the case? Communication and collaboration error occurred in Michael’s case. The warning signs were never communicated to the surgeon. Michael’s care was uncoordinated. d. Compare at quality and safety initiatives that now exist that could have prevented the error? (Cite the source where you found the initiative, guideline or protocol). Crew resource management is a safety system, which initially employed by Aviation industry and then…

Implications Medication Errors Have on Patient Safety With over 100 million people admitted to a hospital in the US, it is no surprise that patient safety is one of the top priorities, one of these priorities is proper medication administration. Picone, Titler, Dochterman (2008) found that 96% of all medication are preventable an alarming realization considering how common they occur. An analysis of medication errors reported by health care professionals shows how common errors are, how they…

Patient Quality and Safety and Continuum of Care There are numerous factors that determine the quality and safety of patients across the continuum of care. Shi (2012) identifies that “ease of access, the clinical quality of care, interpersonal aspects of care, continuity, and coordination all are important aspects of are, continuity, and coordination all are important elements to consider when assessing primary care quality” (p. 9). Factors that hinder ease of access for patients include…