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AICG Articles: Improve Clinical Care

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The promise and risks of AI in improving safety
The promise and risks of AI in improving safety

We know that AI poses risks and also has potential for significant benefits.  In January 2024, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Lucian Leape Institute convened an expert panel to review the literature and explore these benefits and risks as they relate to consumer safety, focusing what they considered to be key uses for genAI in health care: documentation support, clinical decision support, and consumer-facing chatbots. 

AI
Clinical care
Clinical governance
Safety
Morbidity and Mortality Meetings – Framework and Toolkit
Morbidity and Mortality Meetings – Framework and Toolkit

Safer Care Victoria has developed a framework and toolkit to guide Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) meetings to provide health services with a systems-based and Just Culture approach to M&M case reviews and discussions.  

Clinical audit
Clinical governance
Clinical leadership
Clinical risk management
Measurement
Barriers to reporting clinical deterioration - and how to remove them
Barriers to reporting clinical deterioration - and how to remove them

Clinical deterioration is a key risk for any organisation providing clinical care. This qualitative study investigates how three organisational influences - leadership, culture and hierarchies -  impact healthcare professionals' readiness to raise concerns about patient deterioration. 

Clinical governance
Clinical risk
Decision-making
Public
Safety Culture
Lightbulb Moments: My 'A-ha!' Moment on Leading Improvement in Clinical Care
Lightbulb Moments: My 'A-ha!' Moment on Leading Improvement in Clinical Care

In this webinar, Dr. Cathy Balding and her guest, Professor Alan Lilly, discuss Professor Alan's moment of realisation on the difference he could make leading improvement in clinical care.

Clinical governance
Improvement
Leadership
Strategies for improving home care quality
Strategies for improving home care quality

Specific research into home care quality is in its infancy, relative to other care settings.  This comprehensive study explores differences in healthcare outcomes between urban and rural home care settings, with a focus on two key quality metrics: hospital admissions and emergency room (ER) visit rates.

Clinical care
Clinical governance
Continuity of care
Creating an upward spiral of care quality and staff satisfaction - together!

All human service sectors rely heavily on a common success factor: people. Care providers and consumers form a symbiotic relationship. They are two sides of the same coin. This paper explores how this relationship can be designed to create a systematic ‘upward spiral’ of improved staff satisfaction and care quality.

Clinical Governance - Are we Actively Engaged or Passively Avoidant?
Clinical Governance - Are we Actively Engaged or Passively Avoidant?

Discover the true essence of Clinical Governance, going beyond policies, procedures, and compliance. Learn how your daily actions contribute to a stronger governance framework within your organization, and be inspired to connect with your personal "WHY"—whether it's quality, safety, or person-centred care that drives you. Kathy and Kate provide practical strategies you can implement immediately for quick wins, empowering you to make a meaningful impact in your role while enhancing patient care and safety.

Clinical governance
Lightbulb Moments: My ‘A-ha!’ moment on the essential ingredient in care quality
Lightbulb Moments: My ‘A-ha!’ moment on the essential ingredient in care quality

Dr Cathy Balding and her guest, CEO Jenny Hall of Uniting SA - discuss Jenny's "ah-ha!" moment about why one of the most crucial elements in quality care is getting overlooked.

Clinical governance
The WHO Global Patient Safety Report
The WHO Global Patient Safety Report

The Global Patient Safety Report 2024 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) highlights the critical global issue of patient safety, recognising it as a key component of quality healthcare that still requires significant evolution. The report's main goals are to raise awareness of patient safety risks, provide insights into the scope of the problem and set the stage for global initiatives to reduce harm to patients in healthcare settings.  

Clinical governance
Healthcare
Leadership
Lessons from overseas
Safety
He Ara Whiria - The woven path: Indigenous co-governance of a healthcare service
He Ara Whiria - The woven path: Indigenous co-governance of a healthcare service

In this webinar, Tarati and Jenny presented He Ara Whiria (the woven path), a partnership model of co-governance that is in place at Te Toka Tumai (previously Auckland District Health Board). They discussed some of the challenges and opportunities that arise when weaving an indigenous worldview into the governance of a large public health service.

Care governance
Clinical governance
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