International Essentials of Health Care Quality and Patient Safety™
Hospital Edition Implementation Guide
Available September 2011. 127 pages. PDF book. ISBN: 978-1-59940-534-6
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International Essentials of Health Care Quality and Patient Safety™ Hospital Edition Implementation Guide gives users the fundamental information for compliance with the International Essentials of Health Care Quality and Patient Safety™. Ministries of health, health authorities, and other governmental agencies committed to providing safe, quality health care will ,use the International Essentials framework to gather and analyze the level of risk in health care organizations which in turn will permit the strategic direction of resources to improve quality and safety. Likewise, health care purchasers and insurance companies will use this electronic-only resource to guide the data-gathering efforts needed to make choices that direct patients to lower risk health care delivery settings.
Features include:
- The five Focus Areas associated with patient care, quality, and patient safety that are widely recognized as the major domains toward which risk-reduction strategies should be directed
- The Criteria that represent 10 risk-reduction strategies for each Focus Area
- The Levels of Effort that represent progressive achievement in reaching the expectations found in a Criterion
- Simple, straightforward instructions on how to prepare for, execute, and learn from an organizational self-assessment
- Strategies for using self-assessment data to guide strategic improvements
- Appendices that include the full International Essentials text, a self-assessment grid, and other resources.
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