
Quality Improvement in Healthcare
A Guide for Students and Practitioners
- 176 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Quality Improvement in Healthcare
A Guide for Students and Practitioners
About this book
This book introduces quality improvement for anyone studying or working in healthcare. Written in clear, straightforward language, it explores quality improvement from multiple perspectives and outlines a range models and toolkits you can use in practice. Encouraging you to reflect on your role as an improver, the book equips you with the knowledge and skills you need to work through each stage of the improvement process – from troubleshooting an issue, to working with others to make an improvement, through to its evaluation.
Key features:
- Case studies and activities help you to apply theory and methodology to your everyday role.
- A comprehensive glossary introduces quality improvement terminology and concepts.
- A logical four-part structure moves from the basics up, building your knowledge and understanding as you go.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Section A Introducing Quality Improvement
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Key Concepts and Definitions
- 3 Why Improve Quality?
- Section B Perspectives
- 4 The Policy Context
- 5 Patient Safety
- 6 Perspectives in Quality Improvement
- Section C Approaches, Models and Toolkits
- 7 Troubleshooting and Operationalising Quality Improvement
- 8 Working with Others
- Section D Evaluating Improvement
- 9 How to Evaluate Quality Improvement?
- 10 Self-Evaluation
- 11 The Importance of Sustainability
- Index