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USC Quality of Care and Measuring Outcomes Discussion
Discussion prompt:
please identify the most important thing you learned in the course, and how you will apply this knowledge in your current or future leadership role.
The initial post should be approximately 250 wordst
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(Quality of Care and Measuring Outcomes. Diseases Learning how to use epidemiology to assess quality of care, and how mortality and risk adjustment are executed, is a vital skill. One of the most important functions of a healthcare manager’s job is to monitor and control quality of care and patient safety. When it comes to total quality management (TQM), significant terms to an epidemiologist include validity, reliability, sensitivity, and specificity, all of which you will explore. Mortality data is important in order to make comparisons and judgments about not only the burden of disease, but also the availability and access to healthcare services. Comparing rates by themselves can be misleading or confusing when the populations being compared differ in gender, age, and sex, diagnosis, and risk. Risk is the probability that an event will occur, and can be adjusted. Epidemiologists need to think about when to compare risk-adjusted outcomes. For example: comparing the outcomes of populations in natural experiments, such as mortality rates in two hospitals. Are patients in these hospitals the same? If not, then one needs to adjust for patient attributes.)
