System Quality Improvement Including Software and Infrastructure Based on Software Metrics Approach

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriko Hanakawa ◽  
Masaki Obana
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Software Metrics ◽  
System Quality

scholarly journals Quality indicators of dental health care in Serbia

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Svetlana Jovanović ◽  
Maja Milošević ◽  
Irena Aleksić-Hajduković ◽  
Jelena Mandić
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Health System ◽  
Quality Indicators ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Quality Health

Summary Health care has witnessed considerable progresses toward quality improvement over the past two decades. More precisely, there have been global efforts aimed to improve this aspect of health care along with experts and decision-makers reaching the consensus that quality is one of the most significant dimensions and features of health system. Quality health care implies highly efficient resource use in order to meet patient’s needs in terms of prevention and treatment. Quality health care is provided in a safe way while meeting patients’ expectations and avoiding unnecessary losses. The mission of continuous improvement in quality of care is to achieve safe and reliable health care through mutual efforts of all the key supporters of health system to protect patients’ interests. A systematic approach to measuring the process of care through quality indicators (QIs) poses the greatest challenge to continuous quality improvement in health care. Quality indicators are quantitative indicators used for monitoring and evaluating quality of patient care and treatment, continuous professional development (CPD), maintaining waiting lists, patients and staff satisfaction, and patient safety.

scholarly journals Engaging Learners in Health System Quality Improvement Efforts

2017 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 593-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karnjit Johl ◽  
R. Kevin Grigsby
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Health System ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Health System Quality

scholarly journals Managing Transfusion Service Quality

2011 ◽  
Vol 135 (11) ◽  
pp. 1415-1424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Blaylock ◽  
Christopher M. Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
System Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Care Systems

Context.—Providing blood products for transfusions is a complex process subject to errors both within and outside the transfusion service. Transfusion-related errors can have grave consequences for the patient undergoing transfusion. As with many processes performed within health care systems, there is an expectation of error-free practice. Although this is an unobtainable goal, a focused quality-management plan, employing a medical event reporting system in a just working environment, can effect measurable system-quality improvement. Objective.—To illustrate the intrinsic value of quality-improvement activities through discussion of examples of quality misadventures from our transfusion service during the past 20 years. Data Sources.—Examples of quality-improvement activities were extracted from our quality-system archives. The published literature on transfusion quality was reviewed. Conclusions.—Active reporting, structured investigation, and systematic resolution of transfusion-related errors are effective methods for improving and maintaining transfusion quality.

scholarly journals Quality Improvement in Annotated Code

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego A. A. Correia ◽  
Eduardo M. Guerra ◽  
Fabio F. Silveira ◽  
Clovis T. Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Software Metrics ◽  
Open Source Tool ◽  
Code Annotations

In order to customize their behavior at runtime, a wide sort of modern frameworks do use code annotations at the applications‟ classes as metadata configuration. However, despite its popularity, this type of metadata definition inserts complexity and semantic coupling that is ignored by traditional software metrics. This paper presents identified bad smells in annotated code and defines new metrics that help in their detection by enabling a quantitative assessment of complexity and coupling in this type of code. Moreover, it proposes some strategies to detect those bad smells by using the defined metrics and introduces an open-source tool created to automate the process of bad smell discovery on annotated code.

Implementation of a Maternal Early Warning System Quality Improvement Initiative in Texas Hospitals [20N]

2020 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 150S-151S
Author(s):  
Divya A. Patel ◽  
Meliha Salahuddin ◽  
Amanda Wagner ◽  
Patrick S. Ramsey ◽  
Christina Davidson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Early Warning System ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Quality Improvement Initiative ◽  
System Quality

scholarly journals Organizational Costs and Benefits of a Health System Quality Improvement Intervention to Increase Aspirin Use for Primary Prevention of Heart Attack and Stroke

2020 ◽  
pp. 106286062096257
Author(s):  
Jean Marie Abraham ◽  
Niki Oldenburg ◽  
Milton Eder ◽  
Russell Luepker
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Quality Improvement Intervention ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Quality Outcomes ◽  
Low Dose Aspirin ◽  
Resource Costs ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Organizational Costs

Performance improvement on clinical quality outcomes typically requires significant effort by personnel in health care organizations. Understanding the cost of quality improvement is important given diffusion of value-based contracting. This study investigates the organizational costs and benefits associated with planning and implementing the Ask about Aspirin intervention to increase use of low-dose aspirin in clinically recommended patient populations. Data from 4 health systems in Minnesota were used to estimate personnel effort and labor resource costs as well as corresponding benefits, measured as the change in aspirin use among eligible candidates during the study period. Overall personnel effort across the 4 systems was approximately 3900 hours with corresponding resource costs estimated to be $214,385. Aspirin use increased 4.7% overall, corresponding to roughly 1530 new users in the aspirin candidate population. Significant variation was observed by system in total hours reported, distribution of effort by activity type, and in benefits realized from the intervention.

Women’s Health

2016 ◽  
pp. 379-390
Author(s):  
Nicole P. Sandhu ◽  
Lynne T. Shuster ◽  
Amy T. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Medical Errors ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Hospitalized Patients ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
Quality Movement

Quality improvement, broadly interpreted, refers to any formal approach taken to understand and better the performance of a system. Quality improvement, conversationally, more often is taken to mean those methodologies or tools appropriated from industry and applied to health care. The genesis of the quality movement in health care is often traced to 2 landmark Institute of Medicine reports. “To Err is Human” cast a magnifying glass on safety gaps in care delivery, implicating preventable medical errors in the death of nearly 100,000 hospitalized patients annually.

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