Job title Facility type What is your biggest daily administrative challenge? OR Schedulera Academic Medical Center Predicting future busy caseload days to ramp up physician and nursing staff ahead of…
The five essential goals (5 Ps) of the microsystema 1. Purpose. What is the purpose of the clinical microsystem and how does that purpose fit within the overall vision? 2….
Fig. 53.1 The Donabedian Quality Triad. Donabedian theorized that the integration of all three elements of the triad is essential in assessing the delivery of care [21] Which measures best…
National/international Statutory regulations and Institutional licensing/voluntary system Country, if national Regulators/organizations providing the requirements Keywords Year of publication (between 2000 and 2015) Brief description of assurance schemes Focus of assurance…
Healthcare should be • Safe • Effective • Patient centered • Timely • Efficient • Equitable Threats to Patient Safety Progress in science and technology has led to dramatic, worldwide…
• Patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective • Medical knowledge of biomedical, epidemiologic, and socio-behavioral sciences as applied to patient care • Practice-based learning and improvement that involves…
Definitions of diagnostic error Author Definition Mark Graber Medical diagnoses that are wrong, missed, or delayed [2] A diagnosis that was unintentionally delayed (sufficient information was available earlier), wrong (another…
Fig. 10.1 The renal hilum , Intuitive Surgical The da Vinci® Surgical System is widely employed across multiple surgical specialties to perform minimally invasive procedures such as prostatectomy, gynecologic procedures,…
Preoperative risk factors Intraoperative and postoperative risk factors • Age greater than 65 • Infection • Visual or hearing impairment • Surgical stress • Preexisting cognitive impairment • Cardiopulmonary complications…
1999 Publication of To Err is Human by the Institute of Medicine 2005 Medicare Physician Group Practice incentive program launched as a 3-year demonstration project 2006 Physician Quality Reporting System…
