18 Mar Module 4 – Case THE PROCESSES OF CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Module 4 – Case
THE PROCESSES OF CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Assignment Overview
One of the leading continuous quality indicators that U.S. health care managers struggle with is population-wide health equity monitoring and improvement. This indicator seems to unfortunately remain isolated from the “mainstream” process of continuous quality improvement. Because of this, health care managers remain relatively uninformed about
the health equity impacts of organizational decisions, despite the ease of data gathering and assessment brought about by the advent of electronic health records.
Please read the following article, then answer the Case Assignment questions.
Cookson, R., Asaria, M., & Ali, S. (2018). Health equity monitoring for health care quality assurance. Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 198, 148-156.
Case Assignment
1. How can the monitoring process suggested in the article help in revising the processes used inside the United States?
2. It’s working in England—so could it work in the United States? Why or why not?
3. Justify your answer using credible, peer-reviewed sources.
4. What are five of the current inequities in the United States health care market that should be addressed?
5. Document each inequity using credible, peer-reviewed sources.
6. How can each of these inequities be best resolved to the satisfaction of all stakeholders?
7. Explain your ideas for resolving the five inequities to your stakeholders in a few concise paragraphs.
Assignment Expectations
1. Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support your analysis.
2. Provide a response of 4 pages to include 1 to 2 references in each paragraph (can use reference more then once), not including title page and references. It is required that you show the formulas and calculations performed to arrive at your answers.
3. As we have multiple required items to be addressed herein, please use subheadings to show where you’re responding to each required item and to ensure that none are omitted.
4. Support your paper with peer-reviewed articles and reliable sources. Use at least two references from peer-reviewed sources.
