Quality Improvement Report Quality Improvement (QI) is an organizational approach leading to the quality of patient care and patient services through use of specific guidelines, principles, and methods to ensure quality of care for every patient and health care facility throughout the world. Quality outcomes focus on the principles of quality management. These measurements investigate the quality of care, patient outcomes and consumer needs, through being part of the participant group. This quality improvement discussion will review the foundational frameworks of QI and explanation of each framework in detail. Included in this QI report will be What Areas Must Be Monitored For Quality?
Leaders direct according to what value they want for the health care organization.
Senior leadership must determine the level of quality that is acceptable within the organization.
Leadership should prioritize areas of quality and use data based on benchmarks from other
facilities. (Dlugacz, 2006). In addition the author states there are some important areas
that must be monitored for quality. Compliance must be followed by leaders and all
employees within an organization and it is up to health care administrators to enforce these
regulations. Compliance is mandatory and required regulatory agencies and will be discussed
in the next section. Core measures are established when treating and assessing patients. Dlugacz
(2008) also states, these core measures must be followed by physician staff and clinical staff.
Standards of care, and financial stability and spending are quality measures. Identify the Roles of Various Accrediting and Regulatory Organizations Regulators work from set regulation of standards. This set of regulations will allow a set definition of standards and to develop structure to be set so any organization can maintain compliance (Dlugacz, 2006). The Joint
