History
The campaign for quality improvement dates back to nineteenth-century obstetrician, Ignaz Semmelweis’s time; Semmelweiz campaigned for the significance of healthcare providers washing their hands prior to caring for patients. Furthermore, legendary British nurse, Florence Nightingale, determined the link between high mortality rates among army hospital inpatients and inferior living conditions. Surgeon Ernest Codman initiated hospital standards development, adopting and stressing the significance of healthcare outcome assessment approaches (Colton, 2000). Former US President Johnson, in the year 1965, signed the bill that made Medicare a component of the nation’s Social Security scheme. This bill which was enforced in July of 1966 expanded the three-decade-long Social Security initiative and offered nursing home and hospital care, outpatient treatment and home nursing services to individuals aged above 65 years (QIO News, 2014).
Numerous major attempts at quality improvement have been made in the last 50 years, largely initiated by academicians’ health quality campaign. Examples of such attempts are patient care delivery system reengineering and reorganization, incentivizing inter-institutional/provider competition, and peer review encouragement. Additional efforts were determination of medical procedures influencing patient health, performance assessment, offering rewards for good performance, penalizing poor performers, improving monitoring techniques, public quality data reporting, adopting swiftly-advancing quality improvement instruments, and professional medical education reform (Pearson & Batch, 2010).
History reveals that PROs (the predecessors of QIOs) largely carried out utilization reviews for ensuring Medicare paid for only medically essential care. The preliminary attempts at quality improvement were chiefly restricted...
The Ambulatory Care Services did not throw out procedural related indicators under their previous QA program. However, measurement became periodic rather than continuous. According to D'Aquila, Habegger, and Willwerth, continuous monitoring of the process-related monitoring should begin only when periodic reporting demonstrates less than 100% compliance. In contrast to QA teams who look for wrongdoers to blame, CQI focuses on finding problems to correct. D'Aquila, Habegger, and Willwerth explain that
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