Quality in healthcare refers to the degree to which healthcare services increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge. It encompasses various dimensions, including:
1. **Effectiveness**: Providing services based on scientific knowledge to ...
Quality in healthcare refers to the degree to which healthcare services increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge. It encompasses various dimensions, including:
1. **Effectiveness**: Providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit.
2. **Safety**: Avoiding harm to patients during the provision of healthcare, minimizing errors, and ensuring that the care provided does not lead to adverse outcomes.
3. **Patient-Centeredness**: Respecting and responding to individual patient preferences, needs, and values, ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
4. **Timeliness**: Reducing waits and potentially harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care.
5. **Efficiency**: Avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy, ensuring that resources are used judiciously to provide care.
6. **Equity**: Providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, or socioeconomic status.
Quality in healthcare is often assessed through various metrics and standards, including patient satisfaction surveys, clinical outcomes, adherence to best practices, and the implementation of quality improvement initiatives. Ultimately, the goal of quality in healthcare is to improve patient outcomes and enhance the overall patient experience.
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- Why QUALITY? لماذا الجودة ضمان أفضل نتيجة للمريض. زيادة رضا العملاء. زيادة إنتاجية الموظفين. بقاء الموظف الموهوب. خفض التكلفة . Ensure the best outcome for the patient. Increase customers satisfaction. Increase staff productivity. Retention of talented employee. Decrease the cost.