Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Course

ACE ID:

SDCM-0209

Organization's ID:

Health 308

Organization:

Study.com, LLC

Location:

Online

Length:

Self-Paced. 20 weeks (40 hours)

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Upper-Division Baccalaureate	3	Healthcare Quality & Outcome Measurement

Description

Objective:

The course objective is to describe and analyze healthcare quality management processes. This course covers different quality measures, interconnection among healthcare branches and its impact on healthcare quality.

Learning Outcomes:

Apply healthcare quality measurements, models, quality management, performance improvement and quality improvement measures and understand the context of the development of these tools.
Apply validity and reliability standards to outcomes research.
Differentiate among various outcome measures relating to patients, illnesses, costs, and quality.
Explain how finances, staff, human resources and risk management impacts healthcare quality and outcomes.
Incorporate health care technology and advances made in this area and how they have impacted and continue to change quality and outcome measures.
Recognize the standards set by government and key players in the establishment of quality benchmarks and outcomes.
Apply patient-centered approaches including healthcare consumerism as a means of improving healthcare quality.
Define and describe health care quality outcomes, methods, models in the U.S, including statistical methods and models