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Case: This week your reading set the foundations the rest of your course will build upon. You explored the vital role of management and quality improvement initiatives in achieving better patient healthcare services and how an understanding of systems thinking, dynamic complexity, and systemic structures can be leveraged to guide managerial questions and approaches to performance improvements. Chapter two introduced a number of external stakeholders and oversight organizations that can contribute to quality improvement at the organizational, community, and national levels.
As a future leader in healthcare, you will be engaging with the initiatives, standards, and policies that many of these external stakeholders create. Your assignment for this week asks you to conduct a research-informed literature review exploring how these external stakeholders support a systems thinking approach to promoting maturity along the Quality Continuum (p. 14).
Begin by gathering and assessing a variety of research sources to help you evaluate the connections between oversight organizations, external stakeholders, and a systems approach to quality improvement. Here are some recommendations about where to begin:
- Review the Web Resources page for Chapter Two (p. 31), specifically: Performance Measurement and Accreditation pages on The Joint Commission's website and CMS Quality Initiatives
- Explore the 2019 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities report sufficiently to understand the current state of healthcare quality and potential implications for improvements
- Read about the successful adoption of Continous Improvement at Thibodaux Regional
- Conduct your own research discussing the implementation of quality improvement initiatives guided by measures developed with External Stakeholders.
Gather your research and create an APA 7th Ed. style annotated bibliography with a title page. You will be creating evaluative (sometimes called ‘critical' or ‘assessing') annotations. Your evaluative annotation should introduce the topic of the research source and how the content relates to your original research question. Each annotation should be between 100-150 words.