Question

What are the greatest challenges in making evidence base .management e

Decision in today’s health care organization? If you were. Department supervisor in a hospital, what type of information could be gathered to determine if quality of care was improving

Answer 1

Major challenges in making evidence base:

• Availability of High-quality information bases on relevant topic areas and extracting/ collecting strictly relevant information from it
• Professional competency to convert data into required useful information
• Technical as well non technical complex issues and associated interventions from government policies and organization’s procedures will require some methods that require thinking and analysis beyond computer-generated data models, under a practical situation

Being a Department supervisor in a hospital, following information can be collected to determine quality of healthcare:

• Stringent and timely checks on all records of patients coming, medicines and treatment given
• Check on Comments/ Prescriptions/ Recommendations given by doctor’s for all patients
• Check for any record if doctor’s have gone via patients’ previous medical history, if any
• Check on checklist completed by nurses for patient’s timely medicine and other healthcare activities, as directed by respective doctors
• Cross Check with doctors if nurses are following their recommendations
• Check on above factors with patients, if they are given timely and complete treatment for any other inconvenience/ issues faced
• Check data security of all patients’ healthcare records within the organization, to avoid any legal issues on later stage
• Check if sufficient medical inventory is present with hospital administration to serve patients in routine and emergency situations
• Check if all emergency facilities are working and stand by
• Check for facility and hygiene maintenance
• Check on respective certifications required with hospital and healthcare compliances