Spath. P. (2018). Introduction to Healthcare Quality. Jossey-Bass. San Francisco. Review Chapter 3 from last weeks reading
Required Articles Readings:
Côté, A., Beogo, I., Abasse, K., Laberge, M., Dogba, Maman J., Dallaire, C. ((2020) The clinical microsystems approach: Does it really work? A systematic review of organizational theories of health care practices. (please read the beginning of the article-up to ‘Methods’ then read ‘Empirical Findings’ to the end) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S154431912030279X
Rodziewicz TL, Houseman B, Hipskind JE. (2021) Medical Error Reduction and Prevention. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499956/?report=reader
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Types of Quality Measures. (2015)This is an overview of Donabedian’s Model.
Read: Donabedian Model in Wikipedia.
The article, The clinical microsystems approach: Does it really work? A systematic review of organizational theories of health care practices, gives a clear explanation of clinical microsystems. The AHRQ reference decribes types of quality measures.
From this definition,
1. Using the Donabedian S-P-O Model, provide a description of the major structure, characterestics and components of the clinical care setting from your clinical experience or where you currently are employed (this can be an acute care setting, outpatient clinic, nursing home, etc). Discuss and provide examples of the Structure, Process, and Outcome elements, the patient population served in your unit, etc, healthcare personnel disciplines (are there other disciplines that do or could contribute to positive outcomes?) and systems of care.
2. Using elements from the reading materials listed above, describe your unit or organization’s specific attributes that link to the characteristics of a clinical microsystem as defined in the assigned readings.
3. Discuss the connection between quality improvement, patient safety and clinical microsystem.
