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Using the quality improvement cycle on clinical indicators — improve or remove?
Author(s) -
SketcherBaker Kirstine M,
Kamp Maarten C,
Connors Julia A,
Martin Don J,
Collins Justin E
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04023.x
Subject(s) - quality management , quality (philosophy) , chart , laparoscopic cholecystectomy , medicine , operations management , computer science , risk analysis (engineering) , process management , engineering , surgery , statistics , management system , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology
The variable life‐adjusted display is a graphical, statistical methodology used in Queensland to monitor patient outcomes of clinical indicators. The quality improvement cycle is a systematic approach employed by patient safety and quality programs worldwide to improve patient care. The quality improvement cycle is beneficial to the review and refinement of indicator definitions. Indicators with definitional issues that are not subject to the quality improvement cycle may initially prompt quality improvement opportunities, but are more likely to potentially lead to unnecessary chart and clinical reviews, which will disengage coders and clinicians. Queensland recently used the quality improvement cycle to refine the laparoscopic cholecystectomy complications of surgery indicator definition and several maternity definitions.