Unit 5 Assignment: Continuous Quality Improvement

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Unit outcomes addressed in this activity:   

  • Discuss improvement(s) in quality and safety within the academic clinical microsystem.

  • Understand disintermediation and the activities and personnel involved

Course outcome assessed with this activity  

HS460-4: Evaluate health information projects.

Instructions

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Read Exhibit 9-1 in Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care. You are in charge of the risk management team that must investigate this incident and report to the CEO of the hospital. Based on what you have learned, list all the system failures that contributed to the patient safety event and discuss the following:

  1. What was the event?

  2. Who was involved?

  3. Was there a process in place that might not have been followed that contributed or caused this event to take place?

  4. Describe the project that you would assign to your quality improvement team to complete to prevent this from happening again.

  5. Describe the project that you would assign to the health information management team to complete to prevent this from happening again.

Requirements ·

  • Your response must be at least 2 pages in length and include complete sentences and complete paragraphs in APA format. ·

  • You may submit numbered lists, when appropriate. ·

  • References must be cited using APA format.

  • Refer to the Kaplan University Writing Center for APA requirements and utilize the Writing Center Resources found in Doc Sharing

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