by Veritas AMC | Mar 13, 2025 | Fostering an Improvement Culture
In healthcare, it is inevitable that people will make errors. These errors willresult in morbidity, adverse outcomes and possibly a patient’s death. How anorganization investigates and responds to these errors is critical to creatingan environment that fosters patient...
by Veritas AMC | Mar 13, 2025 | Fostering an Improvement Culture
This term was originally developed in industry after the Chernobyl atomic energy accident and it was later adapted to medicine. Culture is a collection of ideas and thoughts that members of an organization develop based on shared events and experiences. Creating a...
by Veritas AMC | Mar 13, 2025 | Disseminating the message: spreading the word and publishing projects
For traditional biomedical and human subjects research, investigators must obtain approval from their Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to conducting a study. IRB evaluation and approval is essential to ensure research studies are conducted in an ethical manner...
by Veritas AMC | Mar 10, 2025 | Project Elements
Setting aspirational yet realistic quality improvement targets can be difficult. There are a variety of targets, and your approach will vary depending on your organization’s current performance on an indicator, what benchmarks exist and assessment of what is feasible...
by Veritas AMC | Mar 10, 2025 | Project Elements
After identifying a problem, the next step in any quality improvement process is to set a goal. Appropriate goals in quality improvement should conform to the acronym “SMART”: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Remember that a goal without a...
