Assignment Task:
The purpose of this assignment is to further your learning about the need, processes and challenges involved in developing quality measures. You will do this by summarizing research papers on a chronic disease, condition, or procedure of your choice.
This assignment provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following course learning outcomes:
- Propose methods and measures to improve performance within a healthcare organization and the quality of care for patients.
- Apply QI tools that are used during the implementation of an improvement project. Need Online Help?
Instructions:
1. To begin, conduct a literature search on "quality indicators" for different chronic conditions, diseases or procedures
2. Choose one condition or procedure to investigate more thoroughly
3. Choose a topic that can be applied to the organization you identified in your PQI Toolbox (WHGH),
4. Read the related papers and
5. Summarize the findings in a report by responding to the guiding questions listed below.
Guiding Questions
- What is being measured and why is it being measured?
- Do a set of measures already exist or are new measures being developed?
- In your explanation, refer to the types of quality indicators (structure, process, outcome, composite, patient experience) and the quality domains (safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient-centred).
- Briefly, describe the process used to choose the candidate measures. Who is involved in this process? Are patients involved? How? If not, should they be?
- Conduct your own search for related measures using the AHRQ, HQO, and CIHI indicator libraries. Compare your findings to what is presented in the research papers.
- As part of your organization's QI team, write a recommendation about using this set of measures going forward.