PMID: 32683429Jul 20, 2020Paper

A detailed analysis of quality improvement and patient safety within undergraduate health professional curricula in Aotearoa New Zealand

The New Zealand Medical Journal
Susan Shaw, Karina Donaldson

Abstract

To extend a previous investigation published in the New Zealand Medical Journal in 2017 into the state of quality improvement and patient safety teaching within health professional curricula and inform further investigation. This detailed analysis of actual curricula investigated the extent to which the nine quality and safety domains outlined by New Zealand's Health Quality & Safety Commission (HSQC) are included in eight health professional degrees in disciplines covered by the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance (HPCA) Act as they were delivered to 2,869 students in 2019. An extended set of terms was identified for exploring the key concepts. The key concepts within the nine quality and safety domains previously published by HSQC were identified and used to conduct electronic searches of undergraduate curricula. A detailed analysis of the findings indicated that a range of terms, beyond those used in the descriptions in the 2017 study, were utilised to convey the key concepts. An extended list of terms was developed, and further analyses undertaken to check the context of them and ensure relevance. The final analysis identified the terms from the extended list across curricula. Further cross-checking was undertaken to ...Continue Reading

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