Quality in Health Care

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This course will focus on health care quality and patient safety management in the United States with emphasis on continuous quality improvement and team building. It is designed to introduce the fundamentals of quality improvement, quality measures, evaluation of quality, and patient safety to health services leaders. Topics to be examined include the history of quality, leaders and trends in health care quality and patient safety, measure and measurement development, analysis of quality practice variation in different health care environments, leadership responsibilities and administrative structures in respect to production and service quality. Note Pre-requisite requirement removed Fall 2024.