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The three types we use in improvement work are called outcome, process and balancing measures. Outcome measures reflect the impact on the patient and show the end result of your improvement work. Examples within the safety arena would be the rate of MRSA or the number of surgical site infection cases.
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- Health Care Models
- A New Methodology
- Scenario-Specific Calculations
- Accuracy and Consistency
The two most common models for measuring area in North American health care projects are the American Institute of Architects (AIA) methods of calculating areas and volumes of buildings and the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) area measurement for health care facilities. The AIA document is useful only for calculating the gross area of a buildi...
A research team from Texas A&M University, funded in part by the Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation, documented building and departmental areas for recent hospital projects in North America. With advice from a council of practitioners, the team developed precise methods for making calculations to ensure consistency. The team used calcula...
The new methodology covers many scenario-specific considerations to calculate individual health care spaces. A few edited examples of considerations covered in the methodology include: Departments.Considerations for determining department spaces include: 1. The demising wall, which separates two departments from each other, is sometimes composed of...
This methodology offers accuracy and consistency without varying from compatibility with the most prominent U.S. and Canadian methods for area calculations. Every sector of the health care design, construction and facility management field is encouraged to use the proposed calculation method. D. Kirk Hamilton, FAIA, FACHA, EDAC, is the Julie & Crai...
This monograph outlines a standard method to calculate the area of health care spaces. This method, based on years of development and vetting, creates much-needed standardization to the measurement process.
Mar 16, 2022 · Most countries use a three-tier system of hospital area measurement: building gross area, department gross area, and department net area. Few differences were found between country standards for department area, though the German standards do not fully address this tier.
- Hannah-Kathrin Silja Viergutz, Michael Apple
- HERD. 2022 Jul; 15(3): 79-95.
- 10.1177/19375867221078838
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Aug 25, 2019 · Analysis of departmental area in contemporary hospitals: Calculation methodologies & design factors in major patient care departments. Clemson University and Center for Health Systems & Design, Texas A&M University.
- Sarel Lavy, D. Kirk Hamilton, Yin Jiang, Amy Kircher, M. K. Dixit, Jin-Ting Lee
- 2019
The OECD Health Care Quality Indicator Project provides a list of 55 quality indicators for cross-country analyses of the quality of primary care, acute care and mental care, as well as patient safety and patient experiences (OECD HCQI, 2016).
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do you know if the changes you are making are leading to improvement? Simple – you measure. Measurement does not have to be difficult or time-consuming. The key is to pick the right measures so that the quality improvement team can see results quickly and are able to adapt their
