Today’s physicians are dramatically different from their predecessors. Besides needing to know how to diagnose and treat biomedical illness, they must also be systems thinkers, able to discern how social, economic, environmental and technological forces factor into clinical decision-making. The Health Systems Science: Introduction to Quality Improvement and Patient Safety helps medical students understand why the domain of health systems science is an essential component of their training and central to their long-term success as physicians. It also describes how health systems science complements the basic and clinical sciences and explains how integrating it into curricula can further medicine’s goal of improving public health.
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Incident Reporting
On completion of this model, the resident will be able to:
- Summarize the background of incident reporting in non-healthcare industries
- Identify ways that incident reports improve patient safety
- Demonstrate appropriate circumstances when an incident report should be submitted
- Discuss barriers in submitting incident reports
- Describe best practices when submitting an incident report
Why Incident Reporting in important for healthcare organizations
Reporting Patient Safety Events
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Analysis and Process Improvement
On completion of this model, the resident will be able to:
- Identify type of quality measures and data sources in health care
- Distinguish difference in common quality improvement methods
- Describe methods to analyze, intervene and improve health care quality issues
- Describe factors contributing to sustained quality improvement
Content:
Healthcare Quality: Measuring Physician Performance
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Quality Improvement Project planning
On completion of this model, the resident will be able to:
- Summarize the background and principles of QI
- Identify ways that QI empowers residents and improves patient safety
- Describe the steps in the FOCUS and PDSA portions of the QI Model
- Discuss the qualities of a successful QI project
- Purpose a potential QI project and synthesize a fishbone diagram
- Summarize the resources available for QI at UTHSCSA/ UH/ AMVAH
Content:
Quality Improvement in Health Care
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Culture/Leadership
On completion of this model, the resident will be able to:
- Describe potential patient safety benefits resulting from an organization practicing Just Culture
- Explain the differences between an organization's focus on eliminating errors and a focus on eliminating harm to patients
- Provide examples of individual actions related to an adverse even or near-miss that should not result in individual discipline
Content:
Culture of Safety and Just Culture.
Just Culture Decision Support Tool. VA national Center for Patient Safety.
Recognizing a Physician's Role in Patient Safety