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Robert answered on Dec 23 2021
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Fads in healthcare are often treated with suspicion, and for good reason. Something
that seems like a great idea for patients, administrators, or clinical staff will often fail to
consider the needs and operations of the other two main stakeholder groups. They often add
to existing workloads for no real benefit.
From this stance, CQI can be expressed as more than just a fad by focusing on four
things, these being it’s history, evidence base, practical utility, and long term trends in
healthcare. The first is the history of CQI. While most healthcare fads come and go in brief
periods as evidence accrues against their actual utility, CQI has been around for over 20
years, slowly gathering practical information and evidence showing a clear benefits to all
stakeholders in the healthcare world, from Hunt (1992) discussing the theory and basic
practical methodology of CQI to examinations of clinical practice using CQI in modernized
countries with results-oriented national health systems such as Taiwan (Yan et al., 2011),
England (Department of Heath, 2012), America (Mainz, 2003) and Denmark (Zuidgeest,
2011). Very few fads have enough support to be adopted and tested at this national scale.
The second aspect to focus upon is the wealth of practical data available on CQIs.
This means that we do not have to develop a test model or learn through error and iterate, as
early uptakers would have had to. Instead, we can go straight for those things that have been
proven to work for our particular environment and clientele, and which can start working
immediately.
We should also focus on the extent to which CQIs, like Electronic Health Records,
require a short uptake period and then provide constant utility almost immediately, making
the jobs of all stakeholders simpler and better managed in a deeply practical sense. There are
even implementation guides, produced by national health bodies (Department of Health,
2012)
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Finally, it is worth ending our discussion of CQIs as more than just another fad by
looking at their...