Subject

Design and Quality Assessment in Clinical Settings

  • code 12188
  • course 1
  • term Semester 1
  • type op
  • credits 3

Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: English, Spanish

Teaching staff

Head instructor

Dr. Alberto GALLART - agallart@uic.es

Office hours

Half an hour before the class prior request by mail.

Introduction

In the current society and healthcare organizations implementing systems of quality management is essential, ensuring the use of methodologies and tools for continuous quality improvement. Rated health scenarios with the intention of discovering possible areas of improvement is the basis of quality and enables the development of research. Quality defined as the utilization of appropriate means in order to get as many of progress in health show a clear relationship with the healthcare research. One of the main dimensions of quality effectiveness is defined as the probability that an individual in a defined population, benefit from the application of technology to a particular health problem experienced performance under ideal conditions. In short, knowledge of improvement tools, design and management indicators are elements that will enhance and facilitate research. 

  • Concept, organization and quality management applied to research.
  • Concept of quality; quality of efficiency; quality of management; Total quality; historical foundations. 
  • Tools of continuous quality improvement. 
  • In short, knowledge of improvement tools, design and management indicators are elements that will enhance and facilitate research. 
  • Redesign of processes: plan and indicators of quality in research. 
  • Quality Management; processes; Main processes in which to investigate. Good quality development and procedures as a basis for research; group management; quality plan, its goals and its relation to the investigation; indicators.

Pre-course requirements

No incompatibilities.

It is necessary to attend class if you want to have the score exercises and perform the exercises in Moodle if you want to have the corresponding score.

Objectives

  1. Tools-Manage quality improvement and identify research problems related to health. 
  2. Meet-group management strategies. 
  3. To draft quality improvement related research. 
  4. Design-related indicators in health research. 
  5. Relate projects to improve the quality research. 
  6. Integrate the concept of quality in the research process.

Competences / Learning outcomes of the degree programme

  • CE9 - To know how to apply specific theoretical and practical knowledge to health science research.
  • CG1 - The ability to incorporate new knowledge acquired through research and study and cope with complexity.
  • CG2 - The ability to critically analyse and discuss research results and transmit the relevant outcomes.
  • CG4 - The ability to articulate and defend one's own scientific ideas in an ethical way with regard to the research process
  • CT1 - The ability to integrate within an established, multidisciplinary and multicultural work team.
  • CG3 - The ability to draw up research questions and put them into operation as research projects and formulate evidence-based research hypotheses.
  • CB10 - To have the learning competences that allow them to continue to study in a way that will have to be mainly independent.
  • CE10 - The ability to critically analyse and discuss research results and transmit the relevant outcomes
  • CE7 - To know how to identify health problems on which research may be undertaken and to apply specific techniques to analyse and assess such problems,

Learning outcomes of the subject

The student at the end of the course will be able to: 

  1. Compose improvement projects related to quality research. 
  2. Match projects to improve the quality of research. 
  3. Autonomy in carrying out the work requested. 
  4. Knowledge Management Strategies group. 
  5. Manage tools to improve quality and identify research problems related to health. 
  6. Integrate the concept of quality in the research process. 
  7. It takes into account ethical issues in the development of the research project. 
  8. Designing indicators related to research in the health field. 
  9. Learn about resources available to researchers.

Syllabus

  • Concept, organization and quality management applied to research. 
  • Concept of quality; quality of efficiency; quality of management; total quality; historical foundations. 
  • Tools of continuous quality improvement. 
  • Knowledge of improvement tools, design and management indicators are elements that will enhance and facilitate research. 
  • Redesign of processes: plan and indicators of quality in research. 
  • Quality Management; processes; Main processes in which to investigate. Good quality development and procedures as a basis for research; group management; quality plan, its goals and its relation to the investigation; indicators.

Teaching and learning activities

In person

TEACHING METHODOLOGIES 

Lectures, participatory Lectures and Case Method.


LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Activities aimed 14h: 

-Master-classes 
-Participatory exhibition-Classes 
-Resolution of cases 

Monitoring Activities 16h: 

-Group-Tutorials 
-Exercises 
-Review-Reading 

Self-learning activities 36h: 

-Study 
-Case Preparation 

Evaluative activities 9h.

Evaluation systems and criteria

In person

  • Written exercises done in class: 10% 
  • Exercises and questionnaires conducted online: 40% 
  • Final written exercise: 50%

To pass the whole of the subject, it is necessary that the average of the subject has a valuation greater than or equal to 5.

Second Call: the above paragraph is approved reserved.

Bibliography and resources

Ayuso Murillo, D, Grande Sellera, R.F. La gestión de enfermeria y los servicios generales en las organizaciones sanitarias. Ed: Ediciones Diaz de Santos 2006 ISBN: 84-7978-756-2

Babio, G.O.; Bermúdez Tamayo, C.; García Gutiérrez, J.F.; Márquez Calderón, S. Selección y evaluación de sitios Web dirigidos a pacientes referidos al campo de la salud [en línea]. Sevilla: Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias de Andalucía, 2006. Informe 1/2006. 

Disponible en: http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/servicios/publicaciones/detalle/39590.html. [Fecha de consulta: 19/10/2012].

BIREME / OPS / OMS (Brasil). Criterios para Selección de Fuentes de Información en Salud Disponibles en Internet [en línea]. São Paulo: BIREME / OPS / OMS, 2005. Disponible en: http://bvsayuda.sld.cu/... [Fecha de consulta: 19/10/2012].

Ovalle Perandones, M.A.; Olmeda Gómez, C. "Los instrumentos de medida de calidad y accesibilidad de la información sanitaria en Internet aplicados a los contenidos sobre evaluación de tecnologías sanitarias" [en línea]. ISKO, Capítulo Español. Congreso (7º; 2005, Barcelona), 478-493. Disponible en: http://e-archivo.uc3m.es/handle/10016/10069. [Fecha de consulta: 19/10/2012].

Pérez Fernández de Velasco, José A. (2007): Gestión por procesos. Madrid: ESIC

Asenjo Sebastián, M.A. Gestión diaria del Hospital. 3ª Ed: Masson-Elsevier, 2006. ISBN: 84-458-1666-7

Cochrane, A.L. Effectiveness & Efficiency. Random Reflections on Health Services. Ed: The Royal Society of Medicine Press 2004. ISBN 1 85915 394 X

Wright, J. Hill, P. Gobierno Clínico. Ed: Elsevier 2005. ISBN 84-8174-906-0

Kaplan, R.S., Norton, D.P. Cuadro de Mando Integral (The Balanced Score Card). 2º Ed. Ed: Ediciones Gestión 2000, 2000. ISBN: 84-8088-504-1

BUENO, E Organización de empresas. 2ª Ed. Madrid: Ediciones pirámide, 2007.

Mintzberg, H. La estructuración de las organizaciones. 8ª Ed: Ariel Economía 2005. ISBN 84-344-6102-1

Vazquez Navarrete M.L. , Vargas Lorenzo, I. Organizaciones sanitarias integradas. Un estudio de Casos. Ed: Consorci Hospitalari de Catalunya, 2007. ISBN: 978-84-611-5728-0

Oteo Ochoa, L.A. (editor) Gestión Clínica: Gobierno Clínico. Ed: Diaz de Santos 2006. ISBN: 84-7978-750-3

Pearce, J. & Robinson, R (2007) Strategic Management Formulation, Implementation, and Control. 10ª Edit.  New York: Mc Graw Hill

Yoder, P. (2003) Leading and Managing in Nursing. 3ª Edit. St Louis: Mosby

 

Revistas

-       Revista Calidad Asistencial  http://www.calidadasistencial.es/

-       Journal of Hospital Medicine  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265714/

-       Clinical Performance and Quality Health Care

-       Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

-       International Journal for Quality in Health Care

-       International journal of health care quality assurance

-       Quality & Safety in Health Care

-       Quality in health care : QHC

http://atoz.ebsco.com/Titles/SearchResults/10371?SearchType=Contains&Find=QUALITY+HEALTH&GetResourcesBy=QuickSearch&resourceTypeName=allTitles&resourceType=&radioButtonChanged

Navarro Yepes J, Rubio Martinez Pl, Guias de actuacion clinica en el deterioro de la  integridad cutanea; ¿dicen todas lo mismo?, Gerokomos 2012; 23 (3): 132-136

Hernandez Martinez-Esperanza E, Verdu Soriano j. Evaluacion de la calidad de las guias de practica clinicas españolas sobre ulceras por presion. Gerokomos 2012; 23 (1): 30-34.

 

Modelos

-       Joint commission   MODELO AMERICANO  http://www.fadq.org/

-       EFQM MODELO EUROPEO  http://www.efqm.org/

-       MODELO CATALAN (SIMILAR EFQM)  http://www20.gencat.cat/portal/site/salut

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-       ISO  http://www.aenor.es/aenor/inicio/home/home.asp

Teaching and learning material

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