Quality assurance management : a comprehensive overview of real-world applications for high risk specialities /

This book provides a comprehensive overview of quality assurance management, particularly in high-risk specialties within healthcare. It covers the development and implementation of quality management systems, auditing, and monitoring procedures, and regulatory inspections. The text delves into spec...

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Main Author: De Lanerolle, Gayathri (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, [2024]
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Quality Assurance Management
  • Quality Assurance Management: A Comprehensive Overview of Real-World Applications for High Risk Specialties
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • Author biographies
  • 1
  • Introduction
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.1.1 A brief history
  • 1.2 Quality assurance
  • 1.3 Behavioral quality assurance
  • 1.4 Quality control
  • 1.5 Quality management
  • 1.5.1 Quality management of clinical care
  • 1.5.2 Quality in research using investigational medicinal products
  • 1.5.3 Quality in research using medical devices
  • 1.5.4 Quality management using software
  • 1.6 System thinking
  • 1.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Further reading
  • 2
  • Building a quality management system
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.1.1 Plan-do-check-act cycle
  • 2.1.2 Quality improvement
  • 2.1.3 Interpretation of outcomes from a PDSA cycle
  • 2.2 Quality improvement methodologies
  • 2.2.1 Bibliometric statistical methodology
  • 2.2.2 Six Sigma methodology
  • 2.2.3 Lean methodology
  • 2.2.4 Lean Six Sigma methodology
  • 2.2.5 Failure mode and effects analysis
  • 2.2.6 Leadership for quality
  • 2.2.7 Quality improvement and assurance training programs
  • 2.3 Developing a quality management system
  • References
  • 3
  • Audits and monitoring
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 How to prevent failures with audits/monitoring visits?
  • 3.2.1 Leadership
  • 3.2.2 Creating a conducive culture
  • 3.2.3 Adequate and appropriate resources
  • 3.2.4 Review, monitoring, and evaluation
  • References
  • 4
  • Inspections
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Key areas for regulatory inspections
  • 4.3 Introduction to developing a specialist specific inspection plan and policy
  • 4.3.1 How to address major and critical findings?
  • 4.3.2 Important factors
  • 4.3.3 Building a culture of resilience and adherence to quality assurance and management
  • References.
  • 5
  • Quality assurance management in pain medicine
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Rationale for quality assurance in pain medicine
  • 5.2.1 Pain classification and varying quality management approaches
  • 5.2.1.1 Acute pain
  • 5.2.1.2 Chronic pain
  • 5.2.1.2.1 Case study-NHS Forth Valley
  • 5.2.1.2.1 Case study-NHS Forth Valley
  • 5.2.1.2.2 Neuropathic pain
  • 5.2.1.2.2 Neuropathic pain
  • 5.2.1.2.3 Improving quality of prescribing
  • 5.2.1.2.3 Improving quality of prescribing
  • 5.2.1.2.4 NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde implemented a comprehensive whole-system approach that delivered significant benefits
  • 5.2.1.2.4 NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde implemented a comprehensive whole-system approach that delivered significant benefits
  • 5.2.1.3 Cancer pain and palliative care
  • 5.2.1.3.1 NHS Lanarkshire achieved noteworthy enhancements in the prescription of lidocaine
  • 5.2.1.3.1 NHS Lanarkshire achieved noteworthy enhancements in the prescription of lidocaine
  • 5.2.1.3.2 NHS Fife initiated efforts to enhance the interface between primary and secondary care
  • 5.2.1.3.2 NHS Fife initiated efforts to enhance the interface between primary and secondary care
  • 5.3 Patient-centered outcomes
  • 5.4 Interventional pain management
  • 5.4.1 Polypharmacy and the impact in pain care
  • 5.5 Quality assurance in pain management-challenges and confounders
  • 5.5.1 Quality assurance in pain management-a potential solution?
  • References
  • Further reading
  • 6
  • Quality assurance management in maternity care
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Association of quality management and clinical epidemiology
  • 6.3 Governance implications on issues with maternity care
  • 6.4 Advice for improvement
  • 6.5 Digital technology for quality management
  • References
  • Further reading
  • 7
  • Neuropsychiatry and mental health
  • 7.1 Background
  • 7.2 Introduction.
  • 7.2.1 Parallel developments in neuropsychiatric care: Neurology and neurosurgery
  • 7.3 Neuropsychiatric disorders
  • 7.3.1 Classification of neuropsychiatric disorders and proposed clinical considerations
  • 7.3.1.1 Schizophrenia or other primary psychotic disorders
  • 7.3.2 Categorical diagnosis and state of remission
  • 7.3.3 Dimensional assessments: Clinical manifestation of primary diagnosed disorders
  • 7.3.4 Symptom profile: Clinical manifestation of secondary comorbid disorders that reinforce primary disorder
  • 7.3.4.1 Genetic influences in schizophrenia
  • 7.3.5 Cellular/molecular in schizophrenia
  • 7.3.6 Brain circuit activity in schizophrenia
  • 7.4 Mood disorders: Depressive disorder
  • 7.4.1 Categorical diagnosis: Disease severity, presence of psychotic symptoms, and degree of remission
  • 7.4.2 Dimensional assessments: Clinical manifestation of primary diagnosed disorders
  • 7.5 Symptom profile: Clinical manifestation of secondary comorbid disorders that reinforce primary disorder
  • 7.5.1 Genetic influences in depressive disorder
  • 7.5.2 Cellular/molecular in depressive disorder
  • 7.6 Brain circuit activity in depressive disorder
  • 7.6.1 Psychiatric surgery
  • 7.6.1.1 Neural interphase
  • 7.7 Anxiety or fear-related disorders: Generalized anxiety disorder
  • 7.8 Categorical diagnosis and disease severity
  • 7.8.1 Dimensional assessments: Clinical manifestation of primary diagnosed disorders
  • 7.9 Symptom profile: Clinical manifestation of secondary comorbid disorders that reinforce primary disorders
  • 7.9.1 Genetic influences in generalized anxiety disorder
  • 7.9.2 Cellular/molecular in generalized anxiety disorder
  • 7.9.2.1 Brain circuit activity in generalized anxiety disorder
  • 7.10 Neurocognitive disorders: Alzheimer's disease and dementia
  • 7.10.1 Categorical diagnosis and disease severity.
  • 7.10.2 Dimensional assessments: Clinical manifestation of secondary comorbid disorders that reinforce primary disorders
  • 7.11 Symptom profile with details of psychopathology: Clinical manifestation of secondary comorbid disorders that reinforce prim ...
  • 7.11.1 Genetic influences in dementia
  • 7.11.2 Cellular/molecular in dementia
  • 7.11.3 Brain circuit activity in dementia
  • 7.12 Quality assurance and quality control in neuropsychiatry
  • 7.12.1 Importance of quality in neuropsychiatry and mental health
  • 7.13 Importance of quality for neurology/neurosurgery in clinical research
  • 7.13.1 Performance measures as quality control steps
  • 7.14 Conceptual frameworks and practice-based applications used to optimize quality assurance in neuropsychiatric clinical care ...
  • 7.15 Conceptual frameworks and practice-based applications used to optimizes quality assurance in neuropsychiatric and mental he ...
  • 7.16 Translation of improved quality in real-world contexts
  • 7.17 Managing quality optimization methods for neuropsychiatric populations
  • 7.18 Quality optimization in investigational medical product development and deployment
  • 7.19 Quality methods in medical device development and deployment
  • 7.20 Quality control and assurance in digital technology development and deployment
  • 7.21 Managing quality protocols for mental healthcare populations
  • 7.22 Quality optimization in complex intervention development and deployment
  • 7.23 Quality control and assurance procedures in the development and deployment of novel therapeutics
  • 7.24 Future directions
  • References
  • Further reading
  • 8
  • Clinical and translational radiology
  • 8.1 Background
  • 8.1.1 Historical background
  • 8.1.2 Radiation biology
  • 8.1.2.1 Dose response models
  • 8.1.2.2 Linear no-threshold model
  • 8.1.2.3 Linear threshold-model
  • 8.1.2.4 Linear quadratic model.
  • 8.1.2.5 Radiation exposure
  • stochastic versus nonstochastic effects
  • 8.1.2.6 Radiation effects
  • 8.1.3 Introduction to clinical radiology
  • 8.1.3.1 End-to-end quality assurance
  • 8.1.4 Translational imaging
  • 8.1.4.1 In vivo imaging
  • 8.1.4.2 Imaging biomarkers for drug discovery
  • 8.1.4.3 Intraoperative imaging biomarkers
  • 8.1.4.4 Translational cardio-oncology imaging
  • 8.1.4.5 Molecular imaging
  • 8.1.4.6 Artificial intelligence for optimizing translational imaging
  • 8.1.5 Quality assurance management in translational imaging
  • 8.1.5.1 Clinical trials
  • 8.1.6 Radiological technology advancement
  • 8.1.7 Quality control challenges for the workforce
  • 8.2 Clinical radiology applications
  • 8.3 Clinical utility and quality standards of imaging
  • 8.3.1 Multifaceted nature of imaging and key steps for introduction of quality assurance model
  • 8.3.2 Defining the scope of quality assurance steps in radiology and nuclear medicine
  • 8.3.2.1 The reference number
  • 8.4 Clinical radiology for clinical research
  • 8.4.1 Efficacy research in radiology and nuclear medicine: basic concept
  • 8.4.1.1 Learning objective
  • 8.5 Quality assurance and organizational framework
  • 8.5.1 Health authority
  • 8.5.2 Clinical radiation expert, medical physics expert, and quality assurance
  • 8.5.2.1 Medical physics expert
  • 8.5.2.2 Clinical radiation expert
  • 8.6 Artificial intelligence and quality assurance
  • References
  • Further reading
  • 9
  • Case studies
  • 9.1 Resource influenced near misses-maternity
  • 9.1.1 Case presentation
  • 9.1.2 Learning objectives
  • 9.2 Inspection preparedness
  • 9.2.1 Case presentation
  • 9.2.2 Learning outcomes
  • 9.3 Risk mitigation
  • 9.3.1 Presentation
  • 9.3.2 Learning outcomes
  • Further reading
  • Index.