Lecture 5 Flashcards
What are three techniques for quality improvement?
- statistical process control
- incident learning and root cause analysis
- failure mode and affect analysis
What are quality measures?
- quantitative description of how well you quality indicator achieved
What is a quality indicator?
- most appropriate treatment for patient diagnosis
What is action limits?
- degree results can vary before causing harm to patient
What are tolerance levels?
- define the boundary within which the process is considered operating normally
What is failure mode and effect analysis
- provides a rational means for identifying and prioritizing risk
- identifying all the failure modes that can occur in all steps of a process
What are the three scroes assigned to each failure mode in FMEA?
- severity
- probability of occurence
- probability that the failure would go undetected
What is incident learning?
- identification of problems in the care delivery process and the subsequent investigation of those problems with the aim of uncovering and addressing causal factors and latent condititions for error
What is root cause analysis?
- identify the underlying causes of system failure
- provides information needed to solve problems and address these failures
What are the key factors of RCA?
- reactive process
- takes place after the harm has been done
- deal with actual failures
- look backwards
What are the key factors of FMEA?
- pro-active
- aimed at predicting the adverse outcomes of various human and machine failures and system states
- deal with hypothetic failures
- look forward in time
What is statistical process control?
- an analytical decision-making tool that employs statistics to measure and monitor a system process
What does SPC rely on?
- control charts to track a data measure of interest such as pass rate of IMRT QA plans
What is artifical intelligence?
- is the use of technology to mimic human behaviour/perform tasks like a human approaches
What is machine learning?
- subset of AI which relies on statistical methods to enable technologies to learn without explicit programming
- program learns from experiences
What is deep learning?
- subset of ML
- uses algorithms called artifical neural network to continually analyse data with a logic structure similar to how a human would draw conclusions
What is artificial neural networks?
- can learn to perform tasks without being programmed
What is concolutional neural networks?
- refers to a mathematical operation on 2 functions to produce a third function
What are benefits of AI?
- streamlining workflows
- decision support tools
- reducing potential human errors
- increase efficency
What are the limitations of AI?
- lose skills and clinical judgements
- ethical issues
- automation bias