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Running Head: HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 1




Healthcare Quality Improvement

Purdue University Global

HA245 Operational Analysis and Quality Improvement

, HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT 2

Quality improvement (QI) in healthcare is the framework used to systematically identify

and provide strategies to improve quality of patient care (“Module 4. Approaches,” 2013). With

this is mind, healthcarequality has changed over the past centurywith advances in technology and

the delivery of patient care. The history of healthcare quality began in1846 withDr. Semmelweis’

emphasis on the importance of handwashing in medical care, Florence Nightingale on

identifying the poor living conditions and high death rates among army soldiers in military

hospitals, followed byDr. Ernest Codman’s creation of hospital quality standards during surgical

procedures(Marjoua&Bozic, 2012). But in 1966, Dr. Avis Donabedian MD developed the

framework for quality measurement (process-outcome-structure triad) which, noted the then-

current focus on evaluating outcomes as the quality indicator to include the structure and process

of care used by healthcare systems today (Reinki, 2017).

Additionally, healthcare QI programs came to fruition after adapting Dr. Donabedian’s

contribution. It commenced with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) which, was established in 1970

by the National Academies of Sciencefocusing on evaluating, informing, and improving the

quality of healthcare delivered (Marjoua&Bozic, 2012). With this in mind, IOM emphasized the

need to promote strategies in accomplishing their goals for a viable health care system. Secondly,

an estimated $282 million in healthcare treatments was identified as wasteful spending for over

600,000 patients receiving unnecessary treatment (Allen, 2018). Certainly, no healthcare

professional would endanger the life of a patient but rather focus on patient outcomes and

prioritize safety. Therefore, in 1989 the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

invested in clinical effectiveness, treatment outcomes and practice guidelines (Marjoua&Bozic,

2012). Finally, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) was established in

1990to measure accreditation performance of healthcare systems and healthcare providers

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