Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
 Modules  Module 2: History of Patient Safety/Clinical Quality Improvement
1. Introduction to Course
2. History of Patient Safety
3. The Science of Human Error
4. The Analysis of Medical Error
5. Evidence-Based Medical Practice
6. Communication and Information Transfer
7. Adverse Patient Outcomes
8. The Role of the Patient and Family
9. Environmental Safety in the Medical Setting
10. Safe Medical Practice In Ambulatory Settings

How Determine Statistical Control?

  • Plot metric over time
  • If results don’t approximate a “normal distribution”, process is not “in control”
  • Results of a process that is not “in control” cannot be predicted (and thus difficult to predictably improve through intervention)
  • First step – get the process “into control” by standardizing work process, education/re-training of workers, etc., - monitor until “control” achieved
 
 
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