Purchase Solution

Hospitals and Healthcare Outcomes

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Hospitals and Healthcare Outcomes

According to Sultz and Young (2011), "with the multitude of tasks performed every day by hundreds of employees in a busy hospital, misunderstandings and information breakdowns in patient care are inevitable." Answer the following questions:
In your opinion, do you agree with Sultz and Young (2011) that errors in the hospital setting are inevitable? Why or why not?
Does the size of a hospital affect the quality that patients receive? Why or why not?
Is there anything patients and/or their families can do to help ensure that they are receiving the best care possible?

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The solution discusses hospitals and healthcare outcomes.

Solution Preview

Errors are inevitable, as to err is to be human, but errors that affect patient care are preventable. As our health care systems continue to mature, we begin to identify new ways to evaluate where common errors are and how we can improve our "fail-safes" to ensure that those errors don't end up translating into problems with patient care. For example, we now have better systems in place to ensure that prescribed medications within a hospital are accurate, in some cases thanks to fail-safe ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Crohn's Disease

How much do you know about this condition?

What everyone should know about MRSA

This quiz focuses on what everyone should know about community MRSA. Community MSRA is an infection in healthy people.

First Aid

Do you know how to provide first aid?

Vitals about a Patient's Vitals

Basic questions about blood pressure and measurements.

Tumor Markers

This quiz help you memorize common tumor markers used to detect and diagnose some types of cancer.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Health Care Delivery Models

    This solution describes the healthcare delivery model of specialists and how the rapid growth in specialized physicians has impacted healthcare, driven change, and also shown both positive and negative outcomes for both the financial side and the inpatient

  • Healthcare Management Current Research

    Describe how the problem affects the overall management of the department and delivery of care within and external to the department. Expected Outcomes ? Provide the overall expected outcomes of the action plan and a final problem statement.

  • Hospitals - Health Information Technology

    These include health outcomes, clinical processes, patient safety, efficient use of healthcare resources, care coordination, patient engagement, and population and public health.

  • Objectives, Goals and Outcomes

    They are more specific than goals and are, often, easier to meet. Some healthcare objectives include minimizing expenses, outsourcing, expanding hospitals, minimizing records errors, etc.

  • Health Law and Regulations

    The agency also oversees safety measures in hospitals and healthcare facilities, to ensure both patients and staff interact in a safer, healthier, and more productive manner.

  • Changing Landscape of Health Care

    Therefore, the new paradigm in healthcare revolves around the improvement of patient outcomes as well as reduction of costs.

  • The financial impact of HCAPS on Hospital.

    Value Based purchasing-Medicare's value-based purchasing program, where hospitals are financially rewarded or penalized based on care outcomes 2.5.

  • Adopting Universal Healthcare in the US

    In addition, it takes a lot of money to do the advanced research that only some hospitals in the United States are able to accomplish and without the cost of healthcare that we have, we may have good healthcare outcomes but we will not have healthcare

  • healthcare information system

    through the use of connected healthcare systems that can reduce human error and result in more efficient patient care with better healthcare outcomes.

View More Related Solutions