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  title info:
    title: Critical processes and performance measures for patient safety systems in healthcare institutions
    sub title: a Delphi study
  name:
    name part: Akins, Ralitsa B.
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Cole, Bryan R.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: This dissertation study presents a conceptual framework for implementing and assessing patient safety systems in healthcare institutions. The conceptual framework consists of critical processes and performance measures identified in the context of the 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) Health Care Criteria for Performance Excellence. Methodology: The Delphi technique for gaining consensus from a group of experts and forecasting significant issues in the field of the Delphi panel expertise was used. Data collection included a series of questionnaires where the first round questionnaire was based on literature review and the MBNQA criteria for excellence in healthcare, and tested by an instrument review panel of experts. Twenty-three experts (MBNQA healthcare reviewers and senior healthcare administrators from quality award winning institutions) representing 18 states participated in the survey rounds. The study answered three research questions: (1) What are the critical processes that should be included in healthcare patient safety systems? (2) What are the performance measures that can serve as indicators of quality for the processes critical for ensuring patient safety? (3) What processes will be critical for patient safety in the future? The identified patient safety framework was further transformed into a patient safety tool with three levels: basic, intermediate, and advanced. Additionally, the panel of experts identified the major barriers to the implementation of patient safety systems in healthcare institutions. The identified "top seven" barriers were directly related to critical processes and performance measures identified as "important" or "very important" for patient safety systems in the present and in the future. This dissertation study is significant because the results are expected to assist healthcare institutions seeking to develop high quality patient safety programs, processes and services. The identified critical processes an…
  note: by Ralitsa B. Akins.
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: "Major Subject: Educational Administration"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Oct. 15, 2004.)
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (record created on Oct. 15, 2004.)
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 2004.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation).
  subject:
    topic: Major educational administration
  subject:
    topic: Healthcare
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Patient safety
  subject:
    topic: quality
  subject:
    topic: processes and measures
  subject:
    topic: Baldrige framework
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1042
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 050107
    record change date: 20151031161832.0
    record identifier: in00002024227