Component 5; Unit 14: History of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Description:
This unit describes the history of the use of information technology as a part of quality improvement and patient safety.
Objectives:
- Describe conditions and notable publications concerning patient safety and quality improvement from 1959 to the present.
- Describe the background to the Institute of Medicine reports on Patient Safety
- Summarize the main findings from several Institute of Medicine reports on quality, patient safety, and health information technology (HIT).
- Describe various ways in which HIT has evolved to improve quality or enhance patient safety.
Component 5; Unit 14; Lecture 14 comp5_unit14_lecture_slides
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (20:51): 1) The Institute of Medicine Reports; 2) History of patient safety and role of HIT; 3) History of patient safety and quality; 4) HITECH and patient safety and quality
Suggested Readings
Amalberti R, Auroy Y, Berwick D, Barach P. Five system barriers to achieving ultrasafe health care. Ann Intern Med. 2005 May 3;142(9):756-64. Available from: http://www.annals.org/content/142/9/756.long
Kohn LT, Corrigan JM and Donaldson MS, (eds). To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, Washington DC: National Academies Press, 1999. Free Executive Summary and Free Brief. Available from: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9728.html
Leape LL, Berwick DM. Five years after To Err is Human: What have we learned? JAMA. 2005;293(19):2384-90. Available from: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/In%20the%20Literature/2005/May/Five%20Years%20After%20%20To%20Err%20Is%20Human%20%20%20What%20Have%20We%20Learned/Leape_five_years_after_to_err_is_human_JAMA%20pdf.pdf.
Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology. Board on Health Care Services. Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2011. Free Executive Summary. Available from: http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=13269