309.600.13
Evaluating Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Programs
Location
East Baltimore
Term
Winter Institute
Department
Health Policy and Management
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2012 - 2013
Instruction Method
TBD
Start Date
Thursday, January 17, 2013
End Date
Friday, January 18, 2013
Th, F, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
One Year Only
Resources
Prepares students to evaluate Quality Improvement/Patient Safety (QI/PS), projects by developing their competencies in the following areas: 1) Critiquing evaluations of QI/PS projects; 2) Designing a robust evaluation of a QI/PS project; and 3) Conducting a small scale qualitative study.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- enumerate and communicate the importance of understanding environmental, organizational, group, provider, task, work system, implementation and patient influences on outcomes
- describe and evaluate strengths and weaknesses of designs for testing success of QI/PS interventions
- describe operational steps to conducting robust data collection and analysis (quantitative and qualitative)
- define and describe remedies for common problems in QI/PS studies