Six Domains of Health Care Quality

Discussion Objectives:

Review healthcare quality content and apply knowledge in current industry information

Reflect on reading and understand concepts through engagement and dialogue to enhance learning 

Expand classroom learning by using healthcare quality review information explore conceptual thinking 

First response is due on or before Wednesday 11;59pm

Subsequent discussion /responses due Thursday – Saturday 11;59pm

Discussion closes Sunday 11;59pm

A handful of analytic frameworks for quality assessment have guided measure development initiatives in the public and private sectors. One of the most influential is the framework put forth by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which includes the following six aims for the health care system.    

1. Safe: Avoiding harm to patients from the care that is intended to help them.
2. Effective: Providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit (avoiding underuse and misuse, respectively).
3. Patient-centered: Providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
4. Timely: Reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care.
5. Efficient: Avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy.
6. Equitable: Providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status.

Access this link About Talking Quality (Links to an external site.) read the purpose of Talking Quality and respond the following question: 

Step #1  – Do this by the end of day Wednesday

After you read the chapter #4, respond to Why is “Quality” important in Healthcare /Hospital administration, make sure to quote your response from the textbook pages 70 to 87. Your response should come from the textbook and make sure to indicate and cite where the information came from in Chapter #4. 250 words or more. 

Step #2 – Do this by end of day Thursday/Friday

Now discuss and share information about at least 2 aims ( pick two from above 6)  indicated by the Institute of Medicine and its importance in healthcare services – pick two of the 6 below – and state why you picked the two items on the list describe why do you think these two are important in 250 words or more. 

1. Safe: Avoiding harm to patients from the care that is intended to help them.
2. Effective: Providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit (avoiding underuse and misuse, respectively).
3. Patient-centered: Providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
4. Timely: Reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care.
5. Efficient: Avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy.
6. Equitable: Providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status.

Step #3 – Do this by end of day Saturday /Sunday 

• Engage with at least two other classmates and see what was important to them and find out why. 
• Engage and interact to create a dialogue 

Write to me with questions sperera@glendale. make sure to review the discussion rubric for details on grading analysis –