312.678.01
Introduction to Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety: A Management Perspective
Location
East Baltimore
Term
3rd Term
Department
Health Policy and Management
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2012 - 2013
Instruction Method
TBD
Wednesday, 10:30 - 11:50am
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Introduces students to the latest thinking on healthcare quality and patient safety improvement through didactic sessions, interactive exercises and case studies that have direct relevance for the public health practitioner, healthcare administrator or clinician. Focuses on the specific domains of healthcare quality and patient safety based on the strategies recommended by the Institute of Medicine report "To Err is Human."
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Recognize the complexities and challenges of evaluating progress toward improving patient safety
- Explain current thinking regarding strategies to increase the extent to which clinicians use evidence-based interventions
- Summarize current strategies to improve the effectiveness and efficiency with which we identify and mitigate hazards in health care
- Appreciate the interplay between safety culture and communication that influence patient outcomes
- Learn strategies to improve safety culture and communication including the Comprehensive Unit Safety Program that has been successfully used to improve safety culture and communication at The Johns Hopkins and in hundreds of Michigan hospitals
- Identify organizational characteristics that are associated with improved patient safety
- Learn to develop an organizational scorecard to help answer an important question: Are patients safer as a result of our efforts?
Enrollment Restriction
not open to undergraduates
Students who take this course should not take 309.730 or 311.615 in the same year.