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Three essential competencies for effective quality managers
Three essential competencies for effective quality managers

QI implementation is complex as it often spans over multiple organisational levels requiring active participation of employees and managers, and involves improvements and modifications of underlying care processes.

Clinical leadership
Quality improvement
Quality manager
Doing ‘something’ does not guarantee improvement – it has to be the ‘right’ thing
Doing ‘something’ does not guarantee improvement – it has to be the ‘right’ thing

Too often, seemingly simple improvement interventions are implemented without fully considering how the intervention might achieve the desired results, whether it can cause harm, or whether a different intervention should be considered. The tendency to favour rapid solutions and implementation over longer-term analysis and measurement represents a common pitfall in quality and safety studies.

Improvement science
Quality improvement
Case Studies of clinical variation in health care
Case Studies of clinical variation in health care

As part of their work to reduce healthcare variation, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare provides a range of case studies that demonstrate how unwarranted clinical variation can be successfully addressed.

Clinical care
Quality improvement
Variation
It’s not what we do but when we do it that counts…
It’s not what we do but when we do it that counts…

The public expects to receive care of the same quality whenever and wherever they receive it. Yet, research shows that care organisations do not function in the same way on each day of the week, or during the night compared with daytime hours. This ‘patterned organisation of time’, known as ‘temporal structuring’, has been explored in studies relating to seven-day-a-week services, with the ‘weekend effect’ impact on outcomes of those admitted on weekends, as one example.

Clinical care
Management
Point of care
Quality improvement
IHI ‘Governance of Quality Assessment Tool’
IHI ‘Governance of Quality Assessment Tool’

This tool provides a ‘ready reckoner’ for boards wanting to test if they’re focused on the right things to support quality care.

Leadership
Point of care
Quality improvement
ELDAC (End of Life Directions for Aged Care) audit tools for quality improvement
ELDAC (End of Life Directions for Aged Care) audit tools for quality improvement

The tools provide audits and information for assessing the quality of end-of-life care to support care process improvement.

Clinical audit
Consumer partnerships
End of life
Quality improvement
ELDAC PDSA cycle linkages toolkit
ELDAC PDSA cycle linkages toolkit

The ELDAC PDSA cycle and tools provide a comprehensive guide to using the Plan-Do-Check-Act Improvement Cycle. It is designed to be applied to end-of-life process improvement. 

PDSA cycle
Quality improvement
Quality tools
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission continuous improvement guidance
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission continuous improvement guidance

Providers must have a written plan for continuous improvement that explains how the provider will meet its obligations in relation to the service and the standards.

Aged care
Compliance
Quality improvement
Do external quality ratings improve care and services?
Do external quality ratings improve care and services?

With the publication of STAR ratings, Australian aged care enters a new era of quality measurement and public reporting. What can we learn from other countries using similar systems about the potential for published ratings to effect improvement?

Aged care
Data
Member
Quality improvement
Reporting
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