This course provides an overview of quality assurance in healthcare. It aims to develop skills for creating safe and efficient healthcare systems. Students will learn about key definitions and processes related to quality and patient safety. They will understand frameworks for assessing and improving medical care quality, and how to develop quality improvement plans. The course covers topics like healthcare ethics, total quality management, outcomes management, and strategies for improving healthcare quality. Assessment methods include a midterm, group presentations, and final paper.
This course provides an overview of quality assurance in healthcare. It aims to develop skills for creating safe and efficient healthcare systems. Students will learn about key definitions and processes related to quality and patient safety. They will understand frameworks for assessing and improving medical care quality, and how to develop quality improvement plans. The course covers topics like healthcare ethics, total quality management, outcomes management, and strategies for improving healthcare quality. Assessment methods include a midterm, group presentations, and final paper.
This course provides an overview of quality assurance in healthcare. It aims to develop skills for creating safe and efficient healthcare systems. Students will learn about key definitions and processes related to quality and patient safety. They will understand frameworks for assessing and improving medical care quality, and how to develop quality improvement plans. The course covers topics like healthcare ethics, total quality management, outcomes management, and strategies for improving healthcare quality. Assessment methods include a midterm, group presentations, and final paper.
This course provides an overview of quality assurance in healthcare. It aims to develop skills for creating safe and efficient healthcare systems. Students will learn about key definitions and processes related to quality and patient safety. They will understand frameworks for assessing and improving medical care quality, and how to develop quality improvement plans. The course covers topics like healthcare ethics, total quality management, outcomes management, and strategies for improving healthcare quality. Assessment methods include a midterm, group presentations, and final paper.
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Course: Quality Assurance in HealthCare
Course Description
This course is designed to develop the skills that will allow students to create safe and efficient quality healthcare systems. This course is designed for the students who seek an understanding of the administration and organization of quality and patient safety definitions, processes within the healthcare system.
Course Objectives
1. Understanding the concept of Quality in HealthCare.
2. Historical Perspective of Quality, Patient Safety and Trends. 3. Healthcare Measures and Measurement. 4. Measurement role in quality management of health care products and services.
Student Learning Outcomes
LO1. Describe frameworks and theories for assessing and improving the quality of Medical Care. LO2. Describe current key policy and programmatic areas in quality of care. LO3. Understand how to develop a workable quality improvement and evaluation plan. LO4. Design solutions to improve patient safety.
Course Plan
Week 1: Introduction to Health Care Quality: Past to Present.
Week 2: Quality in Health Care Infrastructure: An Overview Week 3: Quality Healthcare Ethics Week 4: Total Quality Management –ISO Overview Week 5: Quality Improvement: Tools and Methods. Week 6: Health Care Outcomes Management and Quality Improvement. Week 7: Improving Health Care Quality: Strategies Week 8: Implementing Health Care Quality (Course Title)
Week 9: Midterm Week 10: The Costs of Improving the Quality of Health Care Week12: Quality Assurance ----- International Perspective Week 13 Lessons in Sustaining Health Care Quality Week 14: Hospital Accreditation in Developing Countries Week 15: The Effectiveness of Quality Assurance in Health NGOs Week 16: Pharmaceutical Quality assurance Week 17: Provincial Drug Control & QA system; Group Presentations Week 18: National Drug Control & QA System Group Presentations Final Paper
Learning Materials
Textbook An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Healthcare by
Avedis Donabedian
Other Learning Material Quality Management practices by Kamran Moosa PIQC
