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Quality healthcare often means striking the right balance when providing healthcare services by avoiding overuse (e.g., unnecessary tests), underuse (e.g., missed blood pressure screening), or misuse (e.g., prescribing of drugs with harmful interactions).1
At the national level, addressing the issue of healthcare quality may be motivated by various reasons – ranging from a general commitment to high-quality healthcare provision as a public good or the renewed focus on patient outcomes in the context of popular value-based healthcare ideas to the identification of specific healthcare quality proble...
Control charts, central to SPC, are used to visualise and analyse the performance of a process—including biological processes such as blood pressure homoeostasis or organisational processes such as patient care in a hospital—over time, sometimes in real time.
Strong health systems are integrated. They provide effective access to primary health care, as well as to timely secondary and tertiary care. Health promotion and preventive services can help reduce the burden of disease, while safe and effective surgery saves lives.
Quality of care is the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes. It is based on evidence-based professional knowledge and is critical for achieving universal health coverage.
Timely access to care is important for ensuring desirable health outcomes, reducing financial burden from seeking nonnetwork care and possibly more distant healthcare, and improving patients’ perception of need and experience with the healthcare system.
Keywords: Accidental Fall, Hospital, Risk Factors, Nested Case Control. Background. Patient falls within hospitals continue to be a serious concern and are the most common adverse events leading to injury, longer lengths of stay, and increased costs among hospitalized patients. 1,2
