Week 11: Evaluating and Sustaining Change What does it mean to evaluate and sustain change? Quality improvement initiatives require the evaluation of changes, as well as the ability to sustain the changes long term. This requires effective leadership approaches to...
Week 10: Transformational and Leadership Strategies to Improve Patient Safety and Quality Transformational leadership inspires others to discover meaning and purpose in relation to their work, in addition to growth and maturity. —Smith, 2011, p. 44 Being a leader is...
Week 9: Organizational and Leadership Strategies to Improve Patient Safety and Quality What role do leaders have in improving patient care? Why must leaders serve as the driving force for change? How can quality leadership translate to quality improvement for patient...
Week 8: The Application of Quality Improvement Models in Organizations and Systems The meta-analysis of eight studies of inpatient deaths, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, puts the number of preventable deaths at just over 22,000 a year in the...
Week 7: The Role of Teams in Quality Improvement The success of any quality improvement (QI) endeavor depends on the team working on it. It is not the number of people, but rather how well they function and work together, that makes a team successful. QI team members...
EPIDEMIOLOGY & POPULATION HEALTH MEASURES AND MEASUREMENT ERROR IN POPULATION RESEARCH INTRODUCTION Effective population health promotion and program planning efforts depend upon several factors. These include how often, where, under what conditions, and...
