SKY741 - QUALITY IMPROVEMENT and ACCREDITATION IN HEALTH S.
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUALITY IMPROVEMENT and ACCREDITATION IN HEALTH S. | SKY741 | 2nd Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Prequisites | ||||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Preparing and/or Presenting Reports | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Faculty Members | |||||
| Course objective | To make the students know the recent approaches to improvement of health care quality, external evaluation and accreditation systems. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Measurement of health services quality (process and outcome measures), evaluation of costs, processes and outcomes together, utilization management, standards, guidelines, critical path ways, performance indicators, patient safety and medical errors, advanced methods used in quality management, implementing quality as the core organizational strategy, change management, organizational learning, medical malpractice, accreditation, quality awards, current topics in quality improvement. | |||||
| References | 1. Institute of Medicine (2001), Crossing the Quality Chasm, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 2. Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards For Hospitals. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Variation in medical practice and implications for quality |
| Week 2 | Utilization management |
| Week 3 | Standards, practice guidelines, critical path ways |
| Week 4 | Performance indicators |
| Week 5 | Patient safety and medical errors |
| Week 6 | Advanced methods and techniques used in quality improvement |
| Week 7 | Information technology application for improved quality |
| Week 8 | Midterm exam |
| Week 9 | Organizational quality infrastructure |
| Week 10 | Implementing quality as the core organizational strategy |
| Week 11 | Change management |
| Week 12 | Organizational learning |
| Week 13 | Medical malpractice and medicolegal implications of quality |
| Week 14 | Accreditation and quality awards |
| Week 15 | Preparation for the Final Exam |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 1 | 15 |
| Presentation | 1 | 10 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 25 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 5 | 70 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 28 | 28 |
| Total Workload | 32 | 106 | 210 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Development of theoretical and practical information related to the field of health care management | X | ||||
| 2. Analyzing and directing administrative, financial, legal, technical and medical processes of health care organizations | X | ||||
| 3. To have knowledge and skills on managing information systems in health caremanagement and to be able to effectively use it | X | ||||
| 4. To make advanced analysesof health system at national and international level,health planning and health policy, and health sector with economic and financial aspects | X | ||||
| 5. To have knowledge and skills to make advanced quantitative and qualitative analyses in health caremanagement and to be able to apply this knowledge | X | ||||
| 6. To have the ability to think critically and innovatively in dealing with problems faced during health care management processes, to have the ability to develop scientific methods and technics in decision making and problem solving | X | ||||
| 7. To act in accordance with the principles of scientific research, publishing and management | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest