Answer the following essay questions.
You must type the questions (in bold) followed by your answers, and cite specific Week 12 and 13 learning resources.
- Describe how continuous quality improvement differs from quality assurance.
- What is the clinician's role in addressing the various types of healthcare risks?
- What is the patient's role in the quality improvement process?
- What kinds of patient safety questions would lend themselves to be answered by using qualitative methods of gathering information?
- What are the potential benefits of using a mixed methods approach to answering patient safety research questions?
- Why is there a need for external surveillance systems for patient safety?
- https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/index.html
- https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m865
Reading:
Week 12:
Required: Institute of Medicine. 2000. Chapter 8: Creating Safety Systems in Health Care Organizations. In To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/9728.
Supplementary: Skelly CL, Cassagnol M, Munakomi S. Adverse Events. [Updated 2023 Aug 13]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK558963/
Week 13:
Required: Quality improvement into practice. BMJ 2020;368:m865: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m865
Supplementary: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/index.html
Required Video:
Week 12: Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety: https://youtu.be/L_oXvXtQlBA?si=tJhnw4P7RLCQ0E3_
Week 13: Human Factors and Systems Safety Engineering in Healthcare: https://youtu.be/5B3CYLye6vc?si=Lazf1tPItl_h_Dwu