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Patient Safety Work Product must not be disclosed, except in very specific circumstances and subject to very specific restrictions. Note: the Patient Safety Activities Exception is the most common one that providers and PSOs will be working with. Permitted Disclosures Patient Safety Activities — PSWP may be disclosed:
Throughout health care providing safe and high quality patient care continues to provide significant challenges. Efforts to improve the safety and quality of care are resource intensive and take continued commitment not only by those who deliver care, but also by agencies and foundations that fund this work.
Donabedian model. The Donabedian model is a conceptual model that provides a framework for examining health services and evaluating quality of health care. [ 1] According to the model, information about quality of care can be drawn from three categories: “structure,” “process,” and “outcomes." [ 2] Structure describes the context in ...
Health care quality is a level of value provided by any health care resource, as determined by some measurement. [ 1] As with quality in other fields, it is an assessment of whether something is good enough and whether it is suitable for its purpose. The goal of health care is to provide medical resources of high quality to all who need them ...
Medical social work is a sub-discipline of social work that addresses social components of medicine. [1] Medical social workers typically work in a hospital, outpatient clinic, community health agency, skilled nursing facility, long-term care facility or hospice. They work with patients and their families in need of psychosocial help.
Patient advocacy is a process in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors, and caregivers. The patient advocate[ 1] may be an individual or an organization, concerned with healthcare standards or with one specific group of disorders. The terms patient advocate and patient advocacy can refer both to individual advocates ...
The National Patient Safety Foundation ( NPSF) was an independent not-for-profit organization created in 1997 to advance the safety of health care workers and patients, and disseminate strategies to prevent harm. [1] [2] In May 2017, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) [3] and NPSF began working together as one organization.
A patient safety organization ( PSO) is a group, institution, or association that improves medical care by reducing medical errors. Common functions of patient safety organizations are data collection, analysis, reporting, education, funding, and advocacy. A PSO differs from a Federally designed Patient Safety Organization (PSO), which provides ...