Quality Initiatives The 23rd Annual Achs Quality Improvement Awards 2020

Download or read book Quality Initiatives the 23rd Annual ACHS Quality Improvement Awards 2020 written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual ACHS Quality Improvement (QI) Awards were introduced in 1997 to acknowledge and encourage outstanding quality improvement activities, programs or strategies that have been implemented in healthcareorganisations.In 2019, the 22nd Annual ACHS QI Awards were open to submissions from all domestic ACHS and international ACHSImember organisations following the ACHS NSQHS (National Safety and Quality Health Service) Standards Program, EQuIP6 (Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program), Standards Program, EQuIP6 Day Procedure Centres, EQuIP6 Oral Health Services, EQuIP6 Haemodialysis Centres, EQuIP6 Aged Care Services, EQuIP6 Healthcare Support Services, and the ACHS Clinical Indicator Program.Judging was conducted externally with separate panels of three judges for each of the QI Awards categories: Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety, : This category recognises innovation and demonstrated quality improvement in the delivery of safe, effective patient care.Non-Clinical Service Delivery: This category acknowledges a demonstrated outcome of improvement and innovation inpatient and/or consumer services and organisation-wide practice including services provided by community and alliedhealth organisations.Healthcare Measurement: This category recognises organisations that have measured an aspect of clinicalmanagement and/or outcome of care, taken appropriate action in response to that measurement, and demonstratedimproved patient care and organisational performance upon further measurement. Healthcare measurement can include data collected from the ACHS Clinical Indicator program or other methods of monitoring patient care processes or outcomes. Both quantitative and qualitative data can be used, however this category must describe the initial measurement, the analysis of that measurement, the action(s) implemented,and the improved measurement(s).Global Quality Improvement Award: This category is new to the ACHS Quality Improvement Awards from 2019.