Healthcare Quality

Healthcare Quality
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Healthcare Quality
Human health and wellness are paramount. For this reason, health stakeholders invest a lot of time, effort, and financial resources in improving health care quality. That said, healthcare quality plays several important roles in healthcare organizations. First, it assists healthcare institutions in providing reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable healthcare processes to deserving patients (Karamat et al., 2019). For instance, healthcare quality allows health institutions to identify and leverage best practices in health care as they strive to identify and suppress health challenges within their jurisdiction and improve patients’ health outcomes. Secondly, healthcare quality assists healthcare institutions in achieving their goals of improving care delivery. Often, healthcare institutions set goals to guide their service delivery. As expected, for healthcare service providers to achieve their predetermined goals they must leverage healthcare quality to understand the areas that make them fail to achieve their goals and identify actions that they should take to achieve their objectives. Finally, healthcare quality is important in health organizations since it dictates patient-practitioner interactions. To this end, healthcare quality compels practitioners to engage closely and openly with patients, uphold patients’ privacy, and act in the patient’s best interest, as they strive to improve their health outcomes.
Health care organizations rely on numerous quality initiatives to improve their service delivery and achieve better patient outcomes. First, most medical institutions rely on reduced medication administration errors as a quality improvement initiative (Karamat et al., 2019). As the name suggests, this initiative allows health personnel to identify and leverage measures that assist them to identify and suppress medical errors that could undermine patients’ health outcomes. Sec...