Running head: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF PATIENT SAFETY RISK
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Quality improvement of patient safety risk
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QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF PATIENT SAFETY RISK
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Introduction
The need for overall quality and the safety improvement initiatives have spread
throughout the health care system. Quality health seeks to improve the quality of life of the
patients and the need to embrace these initiatives in something that should be advocated to
ensure proper sanitation of the health sectors
(Badhwar et al.,2018).
Quality health care is
described as the standards of the health care services that are offered to a specific individual or
the entire population to increase the likelihood of the positive desired outcome along the current
professional knowledge-based. The IOM report indicates that numerous medical errors originate
from the faulty system and process but not people. Some of this process includes inefficient and
variables, health insurance, changing of mix cases of patients as well as the differences in the
provision of health education and awareness and other several factors that contribute to
complexity in the health care services provisions. The improvement and safety initiative quality
seek and aims to comprehensively issue effectiveness and safety targets via process of care
measures, monitoring and evaluating if the providers of the health care act within the line of
profession by showcasing the desires to attain process health care qualities while also avoiding
some of the process that might become predisposed towards harms.
The IOM has comprehensively described the patient safety as the prevention of any harm
or risk to the patients with much strength placed on the system structure in the delivery of the
care. The aim targets at preventing errors, learning from the mistakes that do occur as well as
building on a culture of the safety that holistic involve the health care professionals and the
patients. The incongruent in the EHRs is a factor that contributes to patient safety risks. When
the implementation of the system continues to spread in the health care setting, and caregiver
remains to face some challenges in their interoperability
(Campione, J., & Famolaro, 2018).
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