Improving Quality and Safety in the Endoscopy Unit (Virtual) | October 2024-Leveraging the IOM Domains of Quality in Decision-making

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The video transcript outlines a presentation focused on leveraging the Institute of Medicine's domains of quality in decision-making within healthcare. The speaker emphasizes the importance of these domains, which include effective, efficient, timely, equitable, patient-centered, safe, and sustainable care. Examples and scenarios are given to illustrate how improvements in one domain may affect others, emphasizing the interdependent nature of these domains. The session discusses historical perspectives on healthcare quality, from early influences like Florence Nightingale to formalized concepts in the 1999 and 2001 Institute of Medicine reports. The speaker highlights considerations like BMI cutoffs in endoscopy and the use of simethicone to demonstrate complex decision-making. The presentation also reviews strategies for measuring and improving healthcare quality, introducing models like DMAIC and stressing the need for structured, interdisciplinary quality improvement teams. The overarching goal is to balance all quality domains to enhance healthcare delivery.

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Sonali Palchaudhuri, MD MHCI

Keywords

Institute of Medicine

healthcare quality

decision-making

quality improvement

interdisciplinary teams

DMAIC model