Improving Health Outcomes Through Quality

Catalog description

This course introduces the main principles, approaches, and tools for quality and safety management within healthcare settings. The major levers, indicators, initiatives, and priorities for healthcare quality and safety improvement will be analyzed. The students collaborate with established community partners to lead interprofessional teams in developing implementation and evaluation methods for evidence-based clinical quality and safety improvement initiatives identified in the prerequisite courses. Special focus will be placed on application of the Clinical Microsystems Approach and Centers for Disease Control program planning and evaluation concepts and tools.