Safer Care Victoria Quality Improvement Toolkit
The SCV Quality Improvement Toolkit includes fact sheets, practical tools, templates and resources to help you improve the quality of care, developed for Victorian Health Services.
Latest articles and information - Tag :: Decision-making
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Real-time audit data significantly improves care
This longitudinal assessment of a new electronic audit and feedback (e-A&F) system in a large tertiary hospital was conducted to determine the system's impact on patient safety outcomes over an extended period.
Lightbulb Moments: My a-ha! moment on just because we can, doesn't mean we should
Hear from Cathy Balding and her guest, Sarah Soltan, as they explored the boundaries of clinical decision-making within clinical governance, ensuring patient safety and quality care remain the top priority.
What does CEO leadership for improvement mean in practice?
This qualitative study aims to identify key aspects of CEO participation in quality and safety programs that characterise effective leadership for quality improvement (QI).
Meeting the consumer directed care challenge in aged care
Consumer-directed care, consumer-centred care, consumer-focused care - whatever terms are used in your sector - remains a work in progress across human services. Some sectors have embraced and refined their approach to consumer decision-making and partnerships over many years; for others it remains a current challenge. Aged care, in particular, demonstrates some unique barriers to partnering with consumers in their care, as highlighted by this systematic review which examined the evidence relating to consumer-directed care (CDC) in the aged care environment.
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.
How to get more out of your quality data: Why statistical process control method supports better decision-making for improvement.
Across human services, organisations struggle with the right response to quality data. Too often we spend time and resources ‘fixing’ the right thing – or addressing the right thing but not fixing it.
Women at Work - How to Manage podcast series
Conversations about where we’re at and how we move forward.
Library of facilitation tools
Do you need some ideas for the next time you're facilitating a workshop or team event?
The Seven Quality Control Tools
Quality improvement is integral to providing safe care for consumers.
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