by Veritas AMC | Mar 6, 2025 | Project Elements
Swim Lane Diagrams are a type of process map or flowchart, popularized by Rummler and Brache in 1990. Process maps and flowcharts are visual models used to understand processes and identify improvement opportunities like inefficiencies, delays, waste and process...
by Veritas AMC | Mar 6, 2025 | Established Programs and Databases
Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols aim to maintain normal physiology for surgical patients and are widely credited with improving historic practices such as prolonged fasting for preoperative patients. Evidence-based medicine drives ERAS care protocols...
by Veritas AMC | Mar 6, 2025 | Established Programs and Databases
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (PQCs) are state or regional networks comprised of healthcare professionals, public health officials, and other stakeholders dedicated to improving perinatal health outcomes. PQCs adopt various structural configurations, including...
by Veritas AMC | Mar 6, 2025 | Established Programs and Databases
Oryx is The Joint Commission’s (TJC) performance measurement and improvement initiative, which integrates outcomes and other performance measure data into the accreditation process. The name “oryx” was chosen as it is a swiftly moving and graceful gazelle‐like...
by Veritas AMC | Mar 6, 2025 | Established Programs and Databases
The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) is a nationally validated, risk-adjusted, case-mix-adjusted, outcomes-based program that measures and seeks to improve the quality of surgical care, including gynecologic surgical...