Donabedian's Quality Improvement Model
Risk management is commonly used by the organization, which involves the process of identifying risk, analyzing risk and implementing strategies for eliminating and copying with liabilities. As a result of the risk management in health care delivery, there are many activities and actions in health care delivery which can be reduced to expose to the possible errors and the negative incidents to patients.
In practice, according to hospital authority annual report, medication safety is always being highly prioritized among the identified risk that it is mainly being closely monitored in the three aspects of prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs to patients. Getting a thorough understanding on the medication safety in the three aspects of prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs by the proactive risk identification and analysis, the possible errors and the potential negative incidents to patients can be minimized and reduced.
Analyzing the clinical scenario of medication safety, Donabedian’s quality improvement model is adopted to analyze the process for proactive identification and management of risk as well as promote the healthcare quality and minimize the errors. It includes the three sequential components, namely structure, process and outcome.
Structure is the resources available to provide …show more content…
Throughout the process, adequate training available to provide for the staffs involved in, include pharmacist, physician and nurses, is a key to reach the minimization of the medical incidents and the qualified care to the patients. The type of possible errors as known drug allergy and misidentification will expose the patients to the possible morbidity and even mortality if it can not be stopped before reaching the
In practice, according to hospital authority annual report, medication safety is always being highly prioritized among the identified risk that it is mainly being closely monitored in the three aspects of prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs to patients. Getting a thorough understanding on the medication safety in the three aspects of prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs by the proactive risk identification and analysis, the possible errors and the potential negative incidents to patients can be minimized and reduced.
Analyzing the clinical scenario of medication safety, Donabedian’s quality improvement model is adopted to analyze the process for proactive identification and management of risk as well as promote the healthcare quality and minimize the errors. It includes the three sequential components, namely structure, process and outcome.
Structure is the resources available to provide …show more content…
Throughout the process, adequate training available to provide for the staffs involved in, include pharmacist, physician and nurses, is a key to reach the minimization of the medical incidents and the qualified care to the patients. The type of possible errors as known drug allergy and misidentification will expose the patients to the possible morbidity and even mortality if it can not be stopped before reaching the