by SASGOG | Mar 10, 2025 | Project Elements
Published: 10/2024 The importance of Race, Ethnicity, and Language (REAL) Data is increasingly highlighted. With the predominance of the electronic health record and constant expansion of its uses, there is increasing potential to collect well-documented REAL data to...
by SASGOG | Mar 10, 2025 | Project Elements
Published: 02/2023 Root cause analysis (RCA) is process used to learn how and why an error occurred. It is a retrospective, structured, resource-intensive, and systems-focused analysis of an event. This comprehensive event review modality is usually dedicated to...
by SASGOG | Mar 10, 2025 | Project Elements
Published: 04/2023 SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) is an instrument that complies with the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal 2 (effective January 1, 2006)1, requiring organizations to improve effectiveness of communication among...
by Joe Sapp | Aug 22, 2025 | Project Elements
Published: 08/2025 When emergent medical situations occur, there can be several sources of error. These are often categorized as technical, environmental, and team-based. Technical errors stem from the incorrect performance of a skill. Environmental errors include...
by SASGOG | Mar 10, 2025 | Project Elements
Published: 02/2023 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...
by SASGOG | Mar 10, 2025 | Project Elements
Published: 05/2024 The Health and Human Services (HHS) Healthy People 2030 Campaign recognizes that Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) have a major impact on quality of life.1 These domains encompass nonmedical factors that influence the health of individuals and...
