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Quality Assurance:Developing and
Setting Standards
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Definitions
QUALITY
•“Quality is defined as the degree to which services for the individuals and populations increase the likelihood of the desired outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge”.
-Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (2002)
•“Quality of a service is defined as the totality of features and characteristics of a service that bear on its ability to satisfy the stated and implied needs of the patients.”
-International Organization for Standardization (ISO 8402)
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Definitions
QUALITY ASSURANCE
• “Quality Assurance is an on-going, systematic comprehensive evaluation of services and the impact of those services on services.
- Kozier.
•Quality assurance is defined as all activities undertaken to predate and prevent poor quality.
-Neetvert(1992)
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KEY TERMS RELATED TO QUALITY ASSURANCE
• Quality improvement
• Total Quality Management/ Continuous
Quality Improvement
• Quality Control
• Quality circles
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OBJECTIVES OF QUALITY ASSURANCE
According to Jonas (2000), the two main objectives
are;
• To ensure the delivery of quality
• To demonstrate the efforts of the best
possible results
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Other specific objectives are;
• Formulate plan
• Attend to physical and non-physical
needs
• Evaluate achievement
• Support delivery with administrative and
managerial services
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PRINCIPLES OF QUALITY ASSURANCE• Customer focus
• Leadership
• Involvement of people
• Process approach
• System approach to management
• Continual improvement
• Factual approach to decision making
• Mutually beneficial supplier relationship
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COMPONENTS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE
• STRUCTURE EVALUATION
• PROCESS EVALUATION
• OUTCOME EVALUATION
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QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCESS
1. Establishment of standards or criteria
2. Identify the information relevant to criteria
3. Determine ways to collect information
4. Collect and analyze the information
5. Compare collected information with established criteria
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6. Make a judgment about quality
7. Provide information and if necessary,
take corrective action regarding findings of
appropriate sources
8. Determine ways to collect the
information
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MODELS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE
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1. System Model
1. Input
2. Throughput
3. Output
4. Feedback
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Donabedian Model
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ANA Quality Assurance Model
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Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle
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LEVELS OF EVALUATION OF QUALITY
• National Level
• Trust or organization level
• Local Level
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APPROACHES OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
General Approaches
•Credentialing
•Licensure
•Accreditation
•Certification
•Charter
•Academic Degrees
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Specific Approaches
•Peer Review Committees (Staff Review
Committees)
•Standard as a device for quality assurance
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FACTORS AFFECTING QUALITY ASSURANCE
• Lack of resources
• Personnel problem
• Improper maintenance
• Unreasonable persons and attendants
• Absence of well-informed population
• Absence of accreditation laws
• Lack of incident review procedure
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• Lack of good information system
• Absence of Satisfaction Surveys
• Lack of research
• Miscellaneous Factors
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BARRIERS OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS
• The Manager might become pre occupied with quality assessment
• It is impossible to identify all factors that influence quality.
• Difficulty in defining outcome criteria that result solely from intervention
• Documentation of measures is at times vague, incomplete and lacking in objectivity
• There is still no single, all purpose, all site quality assessment tool that is universally appropriate for all agencies.
• High cost
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ROLE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE PERSONNEL'S
• Quality Assurance Personnel's are the active participant of interdisciplinary quality improvement team
• Develop mechanism for continually monitoring the effectiveness of both collaborative and individual professional activity.
• Contribute innovations and improvement.
• Participating in improvement projects and safety initiatives
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Cont….• Participate continuing educational programs
and in-service educational programs for continuing professional development
• Periodic and continuing appraisal and evaluation of situation
• Participate research works related to quality assurance
• Identify any area of needed improvement in delivery.
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Thank you
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