Patient Safety in Psychiatry-1.9 Quality Improvements

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The video discusses the concept of quality improvement in healthcare, emphasizing the importance of continuously improving patient outcomes and the quality of care. It suggests that quality improvement projects can be initiated after adverse events or proactively. The four stages of a quality improvement project are identified as plan, do, study, and act. The video also mentions the need to learn about the science of improvement and understanding the healthcare system, variations, and psychology. The goal is to identify changes that lead to improvement and consider various areas such as waste elimination, workflow improvement, and managing variations. Root cause analyses are one method but not the only one for finding problems and implementing continuous improvement. Prospective attempts to change work in different areas are also mentioned.

Keywords

quality improvement

healthcare

patient outcomes

adverse events

continuous improvement