http://hdl.handle.net/10147/293870 Fri, 27 Oct 2017 07:00:07 GMT 2017-10-27T07:00:07Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/622594 Title: Improvement Knowledge and Skills Guide: Development Assessment Tool for all staff Authors: Health Service Executive (HSE) Quality and Patient Safety Directorate Description: Improvement is everyone’s role and responsibility and this is clear from the improvement initiatives already being undertaken by frontline staff and teams in our health service. We must find new and better ways of working together within hospital groups, community healthcare organisations and the national ambulance service to deliver high quality care and services to patients, service users and their families. This is essential in fulfilling our commitment to achieving real and sustained improvements. The aim of this guide is to support the ongoing learning and professional development of all staff both clinical and non-clinical by providing a list of improvement knowledge and skills which can help to educate, train and guide staff on how to deliver improvement in the health service Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/622594 2017-10-11T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/622568 Title: Measurement for Improvement Curriculum A reference document to support consistent Measurement for Improvement training in Irish healthcare Authors: Health Service Executive (HSE) Quality and Patient Safety Directorate Description: The purpose of this curriculum is to identify the essential components that should be included in MFI training in Ireland. It is intended as a reference document for all those designing and delivering MFI training. These essential components should ensure that high quality and comprehensive MFI training is available and provided consistently in Ireland. Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/622568 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/621410 Title: NOCA Strategy 2017-2020 Authors: National Office of Clinical Audit Description: The National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) was established in 2012 to create sustainable national clinical audit across the Irish healthcare system. NOCA is funded by the Health Service Executive Quality Improvement Division (HSE QID), governed by an independent voluntary Board and operationally supported by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Internationally, clinical audit is a recognised approach to improving the quality of patient care and improving outcomes. In the UK, the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) runs over 30 national clinical audits on behalf of the National Health Service (NHS) and Sweden has over 100 national clinical audits. The Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry (AOANJRR) has been in place for nearly 20 years. Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/621410 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/621044 Title: National Audit of Hospital Mortality report Authors: National Office of Clinical Audit Description: Measuring quality of care is one of the essential components to improving the quality of modern healthcare. Clinical audits are key to this process. The purpose of clinical audit is to identify learning opportunities to inform quality assurance and improvement initiatives to further enhance the structure, process and outcome of care. Through the governance structures established by the National O ce of Clinical Audit (NOCA), the National Audit of Hospital Mortality (NAHM) was deployed to 44 publicly funded acute hospitals in Ireland. Over the last two decades, in-hospital mortality patterns have been used internationally as one indicator of the quality of care. A number of broadly similar methods have evolved, and the standardised mortality ratio (SMR) is the most commonly used approach for exploring hospital mortality patterns within a country. The SMR is a metric that compares the observed number of deaths to the expected number of deaths within diagnostic groups within the hospital setting. The SMR is based on the principal diagnosis (the primary reason a patient is admitted to hospital). To ensure that “like is compared with like” across the diversity of hospitals, potentially confounding factors (factors that may directly influence the outcome) are adjusted for in the analysis, for example, patient age and the presence of other serious illnesses. The SMR used in NAHM includes the analysis of patients coded for palliative care which di ers from some international models, where patients who are coded for palliative care are excluded from analysis. The inclusion of palliative care coded patients ensures completeness of data and recognises that palliative care coding does not equivocate to end of life care. Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/621044 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z