Course work assignment
Discussion Questions:
1. Identify the role of patient safety and its influence on federal initiatives that are used to prevent unintentional death as a result of medical mistakes.
2. The majority of healthcare errors occur in inpatient settings. Errors are becoming increasingly common in outpatient settings. Discuss at least two (2) reasons for the increasing errors in outpatient settings.
website
http://www.hhs.gov
The role of health policy and how it is developed and implemented into clinical practice and used to inform and create initiatives to protect all Americans through evidence-based practice.
The US Department of Health and Human Services provides the direction of eleven agencies that are committed to safe and efficient health care.
The use of quality and value measures now quantify provider and health care organizations with the ability to assess and evaluate individualized practices and patient centered outcomes based upon the evidence.