Fundamentals of Health Care Improvement: A Guide to Improving Your Patients' Care
This book is intended to help health professional learners diagnose, measure, analyze, change, and lead improvements in health care, with the aim to shape reliable, high-quality systems of care in partnership with patients.
Highlights
- Clinical problem-solving and teamwork vignettes
- Chapter objectives and study questions to assess learning
- Comparisons between types of measurement tools and ideas for practical applications
- Updated SQUIRE publishing guidelines and presentation strategies
- Downloadable tools, worksheets, and resources
Ogrinc GS, Headrick LA, Barton AJ, Dolansky MA, Madigosky WS, Miltner RS, Hall AG. Fundamentals of Health Care Improvement: A Guide to Improving Your Patients’ Care (4th edition). Joint Commission Resources and Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2022.
The 4th edition of the best-selling introductory guide to improvement methods and tools helps health care students and clinicians understand how to apply them to their patient care activities. This book is intended to help health professional learners diagnose, measure, analyze, change, and lead improvements in health care, with the aim to shape reliable, high-quality systems of care in partnership with patients.
New to this edition is a focus on health equity and disparities of care, exploring the relationship between social determinants of health and how improvement methods and skills can help identify and close disparity gaps in systems of care. Also new to this edition is an expanded discussion of effective teamwork and the importance of creating multidisciplinary health care teams that partner with patients and families.
Key Topics
- Identifying gaps in quality and working in teams to close those gaps
- Finding scientific evidence for clinical improvement
- Identifying a focus for improvement
- Understanding process literacy, culture, content, and systems in health care
- Analyzing data for decision making
- Using measurement tools to gain insight
- Understanding and implementing change
- Spreading and sustaining the improvement
- Publishing and presenting the improvement
- Using improvement tools