Transcription of Topic 7: Introduction to quality improvement methods
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Topic 7: Introduction to quality improvement methods
165 Why students need to know aboutquality improvement methods Students will be familiar with the termevidence-based medicine and the randomizedcontrolled trial, which has enabled medicine toestablish if a particular treatment is validated byevidence or merely one that rests on belief of thepractitioners. Research methods such as therandomized controlled trial measure clinicaleffectiveness. But such methods do not measurecontextual components or the process of problems in health systems are significantlyaffected by the processes of care and arandomized controlled trial will not measure theproblems nor fix them. Students need to be awarethat process measures require different science of improvement is new to medicineand as a result there has been debate aboutwhether the measures of quality improvement arerigorous enough.
Jan 26, 2009 · that building knowledge by making changes and measuring the results or observing the differences is the foundation of the science of improvement. Psychology The last component is the importance of understanding the psychology of how people interact with each other and the system. Making a change whether it is small or large will have an
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