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Case Studies in Quality and Patient Safety
Location
Internet
Term
2nd Term
Department
MAS Office
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Introduction to Online Learning
Prepares students to plan, implement and navigate within healthcare organizations (HCOs) to successfully apply the concepts of quality and patent safety in real-world settings taking into account the contextual realities of their respective HCO setting.
• Provides an understanding of the approaches undertaken by US and international health care organizations (HCOs) to institute quality and patient safety initiatives in patient care
• Explores the extent, relevance and impact of the HCO's structure and strategy on quality and patient safety functions,
• Introduces the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework to assess the quality and patient safety functions,
• Describes the quality and safety domains using case studies of different HCOs in the US and international settings,
• Emphasizes how the internal HCO culture and external HCO environment serve as facilitators or barriers for implementing quality and patient safety initiatives, and
• Highlights key HCO roles senior- and middle-level management play both at the institutional and departmental levels to enable effective practical implementation of quality and patient safety initiatives, including resource allocation.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe an HCO’s quality and safety functions using the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework
- Analyze the importance of the HCO's context and culture in which the quality and patient safety initiatives are implemented
- Assess the facilitators and potentially address the challenges that one may face while implementing quality and patient safety initiatives in an HCO
- Critique the quality and patient safety functions within an HCO in the context of the HCO’s overall structure and strategy
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 15% Participation
- 15% Discussion Board
- 30% Quizzes
- 5% Final Paper Topic
- 35% Final Paper
Enrollment Restriction
Restricted to OPAL MAS Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality students