healthcare quality and patient safety

Executive Summary Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is pneumonia occurring more than 2 days after patients have been intubated and received mechanical ventilation. About 8 of every 10 patients with nosocomial pneumonias are related to mechanical ventilator use. An average of 1 in 4 acutely ill patients in the Intensive care unit (ICU) come down with VAP. […]

Our current average VAP rate is 6.69 per 1000 vent days across all ICU. The S.M.A.R.T intervention goal is to increase VAP bundle compliance to 95 % across all the ICUs and reduce VAP rate to below 2.0 per 1000 vent days over the next 6 months. The proposed VAP bundle are high to moderate

Introduction to Quality and Patient Safety

CONCLUSIONS FROM THE INITIAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT 45% of all the hypertensive patients had PDC > 80% from baseline assessment. Of the 45%, 84% of them have controlled Blood pressure below 140/90mmHg, this suggests a strong correlation between blood pressure control and medication adherence. The interesting finding is that 95% of the patients with PDC>80% had

ARGUMENT: AS A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT FACILITATION MANAGER, WRITE A PATIENT SAFETY QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROPOSAL FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INTERVENTION IN RURAL SETTING OF LOW- AND MIDDLE- INCOME COUNTRY (LMIC). . THE QUALITY-OF-CARE PROBLEM SELECTED IS – MATERNAL MORTALITY: MEDICAL MISMANAGEMENT OF THE THIRD STAGE OF LABOR IN RURAL SETTING OF LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRY (LMIC) –

ARGUMENT: ASSUMING YOU ARE THE VICE PRESIDENT QUALITY OF CARE AND THAT EFFECTIVE PRIMARY CARE FOR HYPERTENSION IS THE EFFECTIVE CONTROL OF ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE (BP) TO BELOW SYSTOLIC <140MMHG AND DIASTOLIC < 90MMHG FOR ALL HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS ON MEDICATION ATTENDING YOUR CLINICS. DESCRIBE HOW YOU WILL CONDUCT A QUALITY ASSESSMENT -BASED PROCESS FOR EFFECTIVELY