In present years quality
improvement (QI) and quality assurance (QA) have become catch phrases that are
extensively used throughout medicine. QA is defined as planned, systematic
activities that are implemented to ensure that a level of performance is
attained.
In gastroenterology, QI initiatives have largely centred
on endoscopy. Endoscopy is an excellent area for QI work because of the high
volume of a limited range of invasive procedures with standardized reporting
and significant associated risks and expense. QI
is widely applicable to gastroenterologists as well as primary care physicians,
as they try to streamline care while avoiding unwanted errors in managing a
multitude of common gastrointestinal conditions.
The main goal of this is to provide examples of common
targets for QI work in outpatient clinical practice suitable for improvement of
measurable patient outcomes as well as for accreditation and certification
purposes. The QI projects we present will follow the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle,
emphasizing the iterative process and focusing on preidentified measurable
outcomes.
To help ensure that gastroenterology practices are
free to choose QI initiatives that best serve their specific patients and do
not disrupt their clinical environment, it is vital that practices foster
internally derived QI efforts.
Many initiatives like practice settings,
administrative time can often be leveraged to facilitate these projects,
whereas in academic settings, students, residents, and fellows are generally
eager to participate; these efforts increase their understanding of the
discipline, directly affect patient care, and often lead to publishable data.
In addition, a growing number of online resources provide information and
resources to assist in developing QI initiatives
At last, QI should be a team effort of the practice.
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