Quality Assessment Flashcards
Two aspects of quality assurance are:
Outcome Assessment
Retrospective Audit
Change in the health of an individual that is attributable an intervention or a series of an intervention
Outcome
Assessment treatment effectiveness
Outcome Assessment
It is a process used by health care professionals to assess, evaluate and systematically improve care.
Audit
It takes place before the claim of submission of services and focuses on revealing specific and targeted cases
Prospective Audit
Assessing the result of care
Retrospective Audit
Why is measuring health care important?
- Improve the patient experience of care
- Improve the health of populations
- Reduce the per capita cost of healthcare
- Reduce clinician and staff burnout
Quality PT started during the?
1970
The regulatory effort by the government
Professional Standards Review Organizations
Considered non-hospital institutional care
Physical Therapy
Assessment of organization staffing and staff qualifications, rules and policies governing professional work, records equipment, and physical facilities
Structure
It is based on the degree or extent to which the physical therapist conforms to accepted professional practices in providing services
Process
An assessment is based on the condition of the patient after care about the goals of treatment assessment of outcomes
Outcome
Proposed a system of collecting hospitals statistics in 1863
Florence Nightingale
Father of outcome patient care audit systems
Ernest Codman
Qualified health professionals
will=__________
Good care
What organization happened in 1952?
Joint Commission on Accreditation (JACAH)
What happened in 1965?
utilization review for Medicare funding
What happened in 1972?
Bennett Amendment of social security act (PSROs)
- Review of PT service
2 MAJOR FORCES INFLUENCING
QUALITY ASSURANCE
DEVELOPMENT IN US (United States)
- JCAH
- PSROs