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The National Committee for Quality Assurance accredits health plans, provider groups, and various medical businesses.
The Joint Commission focuses on hospitals, laboratories, and many types of medical institutions.The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations began in 1951, when the major professional associations for hospitals and physicians joined to adopt a method for on-site hospital inspections. The system measured patient health after treatment -- in short, effectiveness. In 1965, Congress made Joint Commission accreditation the de facto standard for hospitals that wanted to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients. Seven years later, the U.S. government stepped in to validate and oversee the organization's work. The marriage of private and public roles became part of the Joint Commission's identity. The Joint Commission's accreditation programs have expanded into a long list of different types of medical institutions, from psychiatric hospitals to drug treatment facilities to hospices to laboratories.
The Joint Commission and NCQA measure quality in different ways.
mandatory safety-related clinical practice guidelines.
The theory of continuous quality improvement suggests that organizations should be evaluating the care they deliver on an ongoing basis and continually making small changes to improve individual processes.
One of most important and widely adopted tools to help improve process performance is the Plan–Do–Check–Act cycle. First, planning is undertaken, and several potential improvement strategies are identified. Next, these strategies are evaluated in small “tests of change.” “Checking” entails measuring whether the strategies have appeared to make a difference, and the results are then acted upon.All of the following are steps in a cycle to rapidly improve a specific process EXCEPT:
The correct answer is E. You answered A.
The answer is E.(Chap. 12e) Avedis Donabedian, founder of the study of quality of healthcare in America, suggested that quality of care can be studied by examining structures, processes, and outcomes.
Quality and safety are closely related to consistency and reduction in practice variation. To reduce errors one changes the system or process to reduce unwanted variation so that random errors are less likely.