... 07 2020 07 08 2020 12 08 2020 13 08 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Total Quality Management Lean thinking Patient safety Organizational culture Continuous quality improvement As health-care...

...Danielle Blouin; Everett V. Smith Purpose There is a growing interest in applying continuous quality improvement (CQI) methodologies and tools to medical education contexts. One such tool, the “Are We Making Progress” questionnaire from the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award framework...

... Evidence-based practice Patient safety Continuous quality improvement Health and safety Effectiveness Clinical effectiveness In recent years, focus on enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathways has led to demonstrated improvements in many surgical outcome measures, including length...

... Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Patient safety Drug errors Risk management Continuous quality improvement Nursing outcomes The prevention of medication errors is considered a worldwide high priority (WHO, 2008). The report “Preventing medication...

... bone correlated with better surgical outcomes, as did absent retrognathia or a long airway. Evidence-based practice Continuous quality improvement Clinical governance Care pathways Clinical guidelines Trans-oral robotic surgery (TORS) Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) Magnetic resonance...

... Continuous quality improvement Over a decade has passed since seminal reports including To Err is Human, Crossing the Quality Chasm, and the Canadian Adverse Events Study revealed significant areas for improvement in the quality of health care services delivered by health systems...

...) as a management and continuous quality improvement (QI) approach to strengthen HIV/AIDS services provided in Northern Togo through addressing gaps across a care continuum. Design/methodology/approach The authors led a series of discussions to develop a CDVC specific to existing HIV/AIDS services in Northern...

... re-use rights only Efficiency Process redesign Service delivery PDSA Service quality Continuous quality improvement The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2003) has defined the parameters of quality healthcare as “doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right...

... independent individuals and the extraction was followed by a two-step verification. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Process design Lean thinking Business process re-engineering/patient focussed care Continuous quality improvement Care...

.... The term “improvement science” in healthcare has mostly been used to describe the theoretical basis for continuous quality improvement (QI) methods (Berwick, 1989 ; Berwick et al., 1990 ; Batalden and Stoltz, 1993 ; Langley et al., 2009). A body of knowledge has also been built about...

... Licensed re-use rights only User involvement Organizational change Continuous quality improvement Empowerment Patient expectation Developed in the late 1990s, the Chronic Care Model (CCM) is a coherent integrated approach to improving the quality of services offered to people with chronic...

... Change management Continuous quality improvement Continuing professional development Clinical governance The program targeted researcher leadership, knowledge and skill development to better manage healthcare complexity and the dynamic nature of service delivery. The program provided...

... and safety Patient satisfaction Continuous quality improvement Discharge barriers Length of stay Ensuring patient safety and improved health throughout the hospital course has now extended itself to the discharge process. Great care goes into helping patients’ well-being while hospitalized...

... management Lean thinking Patient safety Incident reporting Lean management Job satisfaction Continuous quality improvement Patient flow Waiting time Additional effects related to the patient and the employee were evaluated to increase understanding in the overall impact of organization-based...

... is to provide a method for an individual patient treatment QA evaluation and identification of a “quality gap” for continuous quality improvement. Design/methodology/approach A statistical process control (SPC) was applied to evaluate treatment delivery using in vivo electronic portal imaging...

... 22 09 2015 12 01 2016 16 06 2016 31 07 2016 23 09 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Quality management Continuous quality improvement Quality improvement FMEA Risk reduction Medication errors...

... Licensed re-use rights only Continuous quality improvement Employee involvement Critical success factors Quality improvement Organizational change Lean thinking Continuous improvement (CI) is a lean process improvement principle. In lean, the goal is to maximize client benefit...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Service delivery Patient safety Quality improvement Continuous quality improvement Quality assurance Patient wristbands Patient identification Medical error Patient identification (PI) is essential for patient safety. It prevents medical...

... quality improvement Efficiency Evidence-based practice Improvement models Patient no-show represents one of the concerns in outpatient scheduling context. It could negatively impact clinic efficiency and provider productivity which may consequently reduce patient access to care (Moore et al...

... Group Publishing Limited 2016 Lean thinking Quality management Continuous quality improvement Lean principles owe their origin to the Japanese car maker Toyota. They include tools that focus on eliminating waste from manufacturing processes and adding value for the customer. Some...