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Six aims for Healthcare imprivments

 In any healthcare system quality improvement and achieving goals are main purposes for which such facilities are exist because patients are first. For these improvements to be done, they must be done on a professional way to best deliver of care. There are six aims for healthcare improvement. Safety, effectiveness, equity, timelines, patient-centeredness, and efficiency. For each aim there is a definition and purpose ; which is going to be the discussion subject on the coming paragraphs. 

     Safety is one important aim and a significant key to determine weather or not the quality of care is safe to be delivered to patients. Agency for Healthcare and Research and Quality explains safety as to avoid harm that could be caused to the patients from the care that is meant to help them. errors in medication prescriptions and dosages are safety threats so building systems that safety is a component can reduce and protect patients from such threats. The second aim is effectiveness emphasizes that service should be delivered based on scientific knowledge. Avoid giving care that would harm than benefit the patient. Effectiveness is evidence-based practice that is defines by Sacket as (Sackett et al., 1996): evidence-based practice is the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. Taking into considerations more than one element to determine the best care, treatment, or intervention. The third aim which is no less important than the previous is equity which to deliver the care regardless of gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or geographic location. Care should be delivered to the individual not based on any  personal characteristics. In addition, equity has two dimensions, individual level and population level. There are some factors that can affect the equity of care such as lack of health insurance which could lead to lack of access to the prober healthcare that an individual needs. In general, care should be delivered to all at the same level of quality, but ones we go in depth we see the differences because of the laws and regulation among healthcare systems. Timelines is a shared interest between care givers and receivers of care. Long waiting for services not only harmful in an emotional way, but also harmful to patients physically and could cause unwanted complications; as a result, these complications could also harm the care providers legally. Delays in test, diagnosis, or result is not tolerated by all medical teams and could also delay them from performing very important interventions. 

     Patient-centeredness is major aim that focuses on patients’ values, preferences, and needs to make decisions and to deliver care based upon them. Patients are not uneducated in terms of their health as they used to be long time ago. Nowadays, we all have access to medical information, and we tend to use these information when we meet with doctors in emergency rooms or clinics. Many patient want to be part of the decision being made about their health status and the treatment they receive it is part of respecting patients. Finally, efficiency has always been a part of everything quality healthcare and other things. It is about saving and reduce wasting in equipment, supplies, energy, and even ideas. Any procedure or tests that would add just a cost, but no value should be terminated. Recycling and reusing of resourcing when available are a must and should be increased. All waste reduce strategy should take into consideration the quality of care and to make sure that it will not affect the services delivered to the patients. To sum up, the existing  facility or team should always look into these aims with carefully to avoid any conflict while delivering care because patients are always the center of the care.


Work cited

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. (1970, January 1). Improving the 21st-century health care system. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Retrieved October 2, 2021, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK222265/.

Six domains of Health Care Quality. AHRQ. (n.d.). Retrieved October 2, 2021, from https://www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/six-domains.html.



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