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1. Continuous Quality Improvement (Health Care Management
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required textbook presents (in Part V.) a series of cases of CQI activity in a real setting.
These cases studies illustrate applications of the methods and provide a basis for analyzing
and discussing ways of applying the concepts learned into different chapters. This
assignment requires you to summarize information, discover improvement opportunities,
and make suggestions on how to improve care. You must read and understand the
respective cases of study ( Attached with the order) and respond to the questions at the end
of each one for discussion. The cases are: Case -West Florida Region al Medical Center Your
project reports should also include an aim, a description and diagram of the process under
study, a description of the data and methods of analysis, and conclusions and implications.
This is not just an exercise in data analysis and display. The data is the focus, but we want
you to integrate the data into the process of care and use of improvement knowledge.
Guidelines and suggested format for write-up You may use the textbook guidelines for
responding questions as headers in your paper, or choose other, similar headers if they are
more applicable to your project such as the following: 1) Background/Introduction ¢Why is
this important? ¢Include a specific aim about what you are measuring and improving 2)
Define the population ¢What group is being studied? 3) Define the process (What care or
work is the focus of your analysis?) ¢?A graphical representation “ such as a flow diagram “
very helpful 4) Describe your data ¢Where does it come from? ¢What does it include? ¢On
which measures will you focus? Why did you choose these? How are they defined? 5)
Describe your analysis plan ¢Why are you looking at the data this way? ¢Why did you
choose these methods to display the data? ¢What specific question(s) will you answer with
these data? ¢Be sure to refer the data display back to the process. 6) Results and
interpretation ¢What does the data show? How do you interpret these results? 7)
Conclusions ¢What did you learn from the analysis? ¢What additional questions arise?
¢?How does your data display assist in decision-making? What actions would you
recommend as a result of your analysis? ¢Are there other data that would help support your
decision? NOTE: 1- Please provide 8 references 2- In the uploaded file please disregard the
question on page 30, I just need the Case 4 -West Florida Regional Medical Center