Quality Management in surgery-related Processes 2

This is my topic: Quality Management in surgery-related Processes The proposed project topic is using the PDCA model to eliminate fatal OR surgical errors. Most organizations, including the WHO, continuously emphasize the quality of health care, a primary element in improving hospitals’ effectiveness and efficiency, the health-centered outcomes, and strengthening health systems (Beyranvand et al., 2019). With a rapidly growing population worldwide, there is a demand and rising healthcare costs, requiring continuous quality improvement, eliminating redundant health processes or systems, and continuous monitoring. In hospitals, surgical rooms tend to utilize more resources increasing the hospital expenditures, making operation room (OR) an attractive target for quality improvement initiatives.

In most hospitals, there is a rapidly growing movement on safety and quality improvement in OR. Surgical errors are fatal preventable sentinel events manifested in mandates from international governing bodies, including the Joint Commission and WHO.

Due to complexity in health service delivery, quality is a major paradigm for solving healthcare facility operation’s challenges. PDCA (plan-do-check-act) model will be used to obtain zero surgical error in the organization (Aggarwal et al., 2019. The approach helps establish the problem and areas to improve, find ways to evaluate and analyze results, develop and implement strategies to improve the OR.

The goal of the proposed management proposal is to ensure the safety of surgery patients in the OR.

The quality improvement is focused on quality improvement in the surgical department, especially on preventable medical errors.

The quality improvement proposal will seek strategies to prevent wrong-site, wrong procedure, wrong patient, and retained foreign objects. Preventing surgical errors is a collaborative effort involving all stakeholders.

The preventable errors result in serious harm, temporary or permanent injury, or death.

The root cause for most surgical errors has often been associated with failed communication among the surgical teams, including surgeons and other surgical members

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