Quality improvement committee

There are several factors that must be considered before the presentation of new materials for staff education. The question of who will be responsible for teaching the staff will arise. Ideally, the teaching of the staff should be done by members of the quality improvement committee. It is important that members of the committee consistently support policies in interactions with their peers. 

American Academy of Pediatrics Subcommittee on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Committee on Quality Improvement. Clinical practice guideline Treatment of the school-aged child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Pediatrics 2001 108 1033-1044. 

An important public goal that has been expressed for an envisioned hydrogen energy system is that it could improve environmental quality. The committee in its report has limited its formal, quantitative analysis to one aspect of environmental quality—emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Other effects of switching to hydrogen fuels and fuel cell vehicles are discussed in various chapters. The committee believes that it will be important to consider environmental impacts in addition to those formally analyzed or discussed in this report if the goal of environmental quality is to be successfully achieved. 

Figure 26.2 is a flowchart of appropriate, safe, effective, and efficient use of medications in the hospital setting (12). It incorporates the role of the prescriber, nurse, pharmacist, and patient in a typical inpatient environment. It also depicts the role of the organization s pharmacy and therapeutics committee and quality improvement functions, which will be discussed later in this chapter. The decision to treat a patient in a hospital or extended-care facility typically adds a nurse or other healthcare provider (respiratory therapist, etc.) to the trio described in the ambulatory care setting. Every time that individual has to read, interpret, decide, or act is yet another opportunity for a mistake to occur. Each of the steps in the medication use process provides an opportunity for correct or incorrect interpretation and implementation of the tactics that support the therapeutic plan. With this many opportunities for medication misadventures to occur, it is easy to understand why tracking and improving quality are important aspects of medication use. 

National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Continuous quality improvement Essential management approaches and their use in proficiency testing Proposed Guideline GP22-P. Wayne PA National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, 1997,... 

American Pain Society Quality of Care Committee. Quality improvement guidelines for the treatment of acute... 

Provisional Committee on Quality Improvement, American Academy of Pediatrics. Practice parameter The office management of acute exacerbations of asthma in children. Pediatrics 1994 93 119-126. 

Nadkami, R. A. and Bover, W. J., Bias Management and Continuous Quality Improvements through Committee D02 s Proficiency Testing, ASTM Standardization News, Vol. 32, No. 6, June 2004, pp. 36-39. 

Modified from the American Academy of Pediatrics Provisionai Committee on Quality Improvement Subcommittee on Acute Gastroenteritis. 

Team Quality Improvement Project Team Executive Steering Committee Quality Management Board... 

Drooz AT, Lewis CA, Allen TE, Citron SJ, Cole PE, Ereeman NJ, Husted JW, Malloy PC, Martin LG, Van Moore A, Neithamer CD, Roberts AC, Sacks D, Sanchez 0, Venbrux AC, Bakal CW (2003) Society of Interventional Radiology Standards of Practice Committee. Quality improvement guidelines for percutaneous transcatheter embolization. J Vase Interv Radiol 14(9 Pt 2) S237-242... 

American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on quality improvement. Subcommittee on UTI practice parameters (1999) The diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of the initial UTI in febrile infants and young children. Pediatrics 103 843-852... 

ACS Committee on Environmental Improvement Guidelines for Data Acquisition and Data Quality Evaluation in Environmental Chemistry, Ana/. Chem. 1980, 52, 2242-2249. 

The CMA established an Air Quality Committee to study methods for improving air quality. 

Wellford, Charles E, John V. Pepper, and Carol V. Pertrie, eds. Firearms and Violence What Do We Know Washington, D.C. National Academies Press, 2004. Members of the National Research Council s Committee to Improve Research and Data on Firearms attempt to scientifically assess the quality of the existing data, believing this to be essential to doing good science in a field often distorted by advocacy. 

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