Question

In many cases, improvements in health care quality are incremental (evolutionary) changes and not necessarily breakthrough (revolutionary) changes. Discuss the value of multiple small variations in effecting long-term, sustained improvement

Answer 1

The changes in the health care organization is crucial to improving the quality of care it delivers, however, establishing such a culture take time, resources and commitment, so we have to spend significant time, money, energy and resources to have staff in the mind set of revolutionary process improvement. and by implementing best practices, establishing clinical indicators and measuring and interperting variation involve considerable effort, which when successsful, create and sustain an environment conducive to perpetuating these quality improvement initiatives, and a complex matrix of demands for quality improvement and changes agents exists in an organization, because changing one process will not necessarily result in quality improvement, successfully implementing incremental, evolutionary changes both in groups and across system supports the value of new processes and these efforts can leads to revolutionary chages that improve the system and benefit patient.