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Healthcare systems consistently decline to provide high-quality, evidence-based care to patients. Quality improvement (QI) work attempts to remove holes between the care offered and the care that should have been given (Fondahn et al., 2016). Measurement is a fundamental part of continuous QI. It serves two significant purposes: first, to regulate which of multiple processes within a system yield the top health outcomes, and second, to establish how often known best practices are being applied to suitable patients (Fondahn et al., 2016). The four measures consist of structural, process, outcome, and balancing. Process measures calculate the steps that are essential to achieve the desired outcome (Fondahn et al., 2016) An example is the number of patients with heart failure discharged on a beta-blocker (Fondahn et al., 2016) Outcome measures quantify the degree to which customer specifications are met (Fondahn et al., 2016). An example is mortality, morbidity, or value of life (Fondahn et al., 2016). Each of these is important in their way. Process measures are often easier to obtain than outcome measures. Outcomes measures can assess a QI's attempts to better the project. With process measures it dives deeper into the QI project seeing where the improvements can be made. Although the two together would be the best.
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FYI, this is the question of this answer: Measurement is required to determine the success of your CQI project. What is the difference between outcome and process measures? Which are more important? Why? Support your reasoning with an example.