Question

What are the pros and cons of different methods for improving the delivery of care within health care organizations?

Answer 1

Evidence based practices: The application of EBM in health care delivery provides the health personnel with scientific reasons for their actions.The are various pros and cons of the application of this practices.

• Concrete knowledge: the use of evidenced based practices are approved after a thorough research that provides facts. It helps to identify the effective and ineffective strategies in delivering care.
• Quality of care: The quality of care is improved with scientifically researched information.
• Poor evidence: Like other research , it is susceptible to human error. The evidence is not always perfect.

Health care accessibility:

• As steps are taken by the healthcare organizations to make healthcare easily available to general populations, this will increase the number of clients seeking care and will also improve the delivery of care.
• Even though measures are taken to make healthcare easily accessible, due to various diversities prevalent in community, the interest of the government to support such matters have led to poor accessibility to healthcare among community.

Integration of health services:

• Health care are varied and is in large number. The integration of the system will maintain continuity of care.
• The system will be organized and goal oriented.
• Integration of services may not benefit the rural and slums.
• The cost and manpower requirements to maintain such a vast system is high.
• Lack of commitment with lead to downfall of the system.

Staffing:

• Adequate staffing in every field of healthcare is important.
• Adequate staffing minimizes the workload in the system.
• Recruiting competent and skilled staff will increase the quality of care.
• Poor staffing decreases the quality of care provided.
• Stress and anxiety is developed among the staffs due to poor staffing.
• The cons of staffing includes: the criteria based on which staff is appointed may not be expectable to each staff.
• Staff may be treated based on their cultural disparities.
• Reservation systems in recruiting leads to selection of inefficient staff.