This free course, Introducing healthcare improvement, explores quality improvement in healthcare settings. It begins by defining healthcare quality and describing the meaning of quality improvement in healthcare. You will also learn about the different dimensions of quality and the broad aims of healthcare improvement. The course will help you better understand how and why we seek to improve healthcare quality.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Defining and evaluating quality improvement in healthcare
- 1 Defining and evaluating quality improvement in healthcare
- 1.1 Defining quality and quality improvement in healthcare
- 1.2 Evaluating quality improvement in healthcare
- 2 Six aims of quality in healthcare
- 2 Six aims of quality in healthcare
- 2.1 Safety in healthcare
- 2.2 Effective care
- 2.3 Patient-centred care
- 2.4 Timely healthcare
- 2.5 Efficient care
- 2.6 Equitable care
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
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