Health Care
Quality standards impact every role and organization in health care. There may be many different facets to quality measures, and your understanding of quality standards demonstrates skill in protecting and improving patient safety. In this assignment you will analyze drivers and measurements of quality improvement in health care.
Preparing for This Assignment
Research quality dimensions, quality standards, or quality indicators used by various health care organizations that work to improve the quality of health care.
Consider using the following list of organizations and you may also use other organizations that you find in your research:
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The Joint Commission
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
ANSWER
| Quality Standard Number | Quality- Reporting Standard | Source | Description of the Standard | How the Standard Drives Quality Improvement in Healthcare |
| 1 | The insufficient number of beds and poor services in hospitals. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) | It measures the number of beds available in the hospitals for patients being admitted. This majorly affects inpatients. | Stakeholders should ensure that hospitals are supplied with an adequate number of beds for patients (Goodman. et al., 2017). This will ensure that contagious diseases are not rapidly spread in hospitals. |
| 2 | Less number of skilled physicians. | The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division | This focuses on the availability of an adequate number of skilled personnel who can attend to patients. | It is paramount that the physicians attending to patients be skilled in offering proper medication. Lack of skills may lead to unexpected deaths. |
| 3 | Failure of nurses to attend to patients. | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS) | Failure of nurses’ attention to patients is because the nurse-patient ratio is low. | The number of patients admitted to hospitals should equally rhyme with the number of nurses available. This will otherwise lead to instances where patients are not taken care of properly. |
| 4 | Poor prescription ordering systems. | National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) | Electronic systems for entering medication orders may at times be poor. | By considering prescription methods in hospitals, the model should be a critical factor to avoid drug abuse which may lead to risk on patients’ health. |
| 5 | Unavailability of drugs in hospitals. | The Joint Commission | The unavailability of drugs in hospitals majorly affects patients with low income. | This may lead to instances where patients lack proper medication and are forced to buy medicine despite all the financial problems. |
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Mortality rate by type of condition. | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) | Death rates occur with the type of condition the patient is in, e.g., heart attack. | Various conditions require different types of attention (Horvat & Filipovic,2020). Situations that require urgent attention should be dealt with in time to reduce death rates. |
References
Goodman, D., Ogrinc, G., Davies, L., Baker, G. R., Barnsteiner, J., Foster, T. C., … & Thor, J. (2016). Explanation and elaboration of the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Guidelines, V. 2.0: examples of SQUIRE elements in the healthcare improvement literature. BMJ quality & safety, 25(12), e7-e7.
Horvat, A., & Filipovic, J. (2020). Healthcare system quality indicators: the complexity perspective. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 31(1-2), 161-177.
