Overview
- Describes how to distill guidelines for improving patient safety and healthcare quality for local use in developing countries
- Explains developing/implementing SOPs to translate guidelines into simple procedures for informed decision-making during care
- Discusses systems and methods for improving patient safety and managing healthcare risk
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- quality health care in developing countries
- quality health care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
- patient safety in Africa
- healthcare quality management
- healthcare safety improvement
- healthcare systems in developing countries
- medical errors
- healthcare incident reporting
- clinical audit
- healthcare evaluation in Africa
- research audit
- healthcare administration
- healthcare management
- health services research
About this book
In the book, chapters highlight six essential components crucial for achieving evolutionary progress in safety and quality improvement in a healthcare system:
- Standard operating procedure
- Audit
- Research
- Safety management
- Quality management
- Evaluation
Practical steps in planning and conducting these six essential components are outlined with some specific features to aid learning and facilitate their implementation.
The authors have experience and expertise in the medical practice gained in Africa and a decade of knowledge and experience from consultancy work in safety and quality improvement in health care within and outside the region.
Essentials for Quality and Safety Improvement in Health Care: A Resource for Developing Countries is authored for both medical professionals and thosefrom other professions who are interested in and enthusiastic about patient safety and healthcare quality and therefore willing to build a career in this field. It is relevant to all health institutions, health and non-health workers, and can be used as a checklist while rendering quality and safe health care.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Christopher Ente is Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Improvement Consultant and a founder of Patient Safety and Quality Care for Africa (PASQUA). He specialises in the use of information technology to drive safety and quality in health care. His background includes Information Communication Technology (ICT), quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement, healthcare risk management, clinical incident investigation and prevention, and the use of research, auditing and monitoring tools. He works as a research regulatory facilitator in the Research Governance and Integrity team, Imperial College London, UK. He was one of the external reviewers of the World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety Research – A guide for developing training programmes published in 2012. He worked as a consultant for Synensys, a US-based healthcare consulting firm, with the Qatar Ministry of Public Health Project in the Middle East. He has years of experience working in various roles in the National Health Service (NHS) and Higher Education Institutions in the United Kingdom. He worked in several ICT industries in different roles and as a System Engineer in Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in various departments including high hazardous offshore oil rigs. He earned a Master’s degree in Quality and Safety in Healthcare from Imperial College London and Computer Network and Communication from Westminster University London. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Statistics from the University of Uyo in Nigeria and he holds a certificate in Prince 2 Project Management. He is a member of Research Quality Association (RQA) in the United Kingdom and the Society of Quality in Healthcare in Nigeria.
Dr. Michael Ukpe is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons. He has fellowship in minimal access surgery and assisted reproductive technology. He is an experienced medical practitioner who has practised medicine in and outside Nigeria. The greater part of his practice has been in the low-resource settings. He has attended several health-related conferences on primary and secondary health care. He is currently the Chief Medical Director, Romivic Specialists Hospital Limited, Eket, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The delivery of safe and easily accessible quality health care to the people is his heart beat. He brings to bear the challenges and next steps to the issues affecting the safety of health workers and patients in the course of delivering quality health care covered in this book. He obtained his MBBCH from the University of Calabar, Calabar in Cross River State, Nigeria. This book is very relevant to all health institutions, health and non-health workers, and can be used as a checklist while rendering quality and safe health care to the people.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Essentials for Quality and Safety Improvement in Health Care
Book Subtitle: A Resource for Developing Countries
Authors: Christopher Ente, Michael Ukpe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92482-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92481-2Published: 02 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92484-3Published: 03 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92482-9Published: 01 February 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 199
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Care Management, Health Administration, Health Policy