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Reflections and Understanding of Quality Management in Healthcare

Reflections and Understanding of Quality Management in Healthcare
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Author(s): T. Ray Ruffin (Wake Technical Community College, USA & University of Mount Olive, USA & University of Phoenix, USA & Colorado Technical University, USA)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 22
Source title: Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Vassilios E. Papalois (Imperial College, UK)and Maria Theodosopoulou (Imperial College, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4074-8.ch009

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Abstract

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) leadership must be involved with patient safety inventiveness and healthcare strategy. Leadership is essential to implementing and sustaining continuous performance quality improvement for patient-centered care. Quality management is of extreme significance to the United States (U.S.) healthcare industry and patients. Included are an introduction and background of the U.S. healthcare systems as well as the joint commission and government mandates. One of the primary focuses of the chapter is to enhance health literacy by developing a robust lexicon of fundamental healthcare terms and concepts. Healthcare reforms such as Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) are explored. The quality of healthcare delivery, involuntary reporting, patient safety indicators (PSIs), prevention quality indicators (PQIs), and inpatient quality indicators (IQIs) are explained. The chapter culminates with a discussion focusing on transformational leadership and the strategies for quality management implementation, along with a conclusion.

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