LiU Summer Academy: High tech meets people meets processes: quality improvement in healthcare

Aim

By the end of the course the students will be able to:

Knowledge and understanding

• identify areas for health care improvements and to distinguish specific problems,
• describe theoretical and practical aspects which can impact on health care improvements, and,
• explain factors on individual-, team-, and organisational levels, impacting the outcomes of health care improvements.

Competence and skills

• apply tools to depict barriers and facilitators in a health care context where an improvement is needed,
• suggest a project plan for improvements based on a defined problem,
• apply methods in for knowledge implementation for an improvement need in health care, and
• suggest appropriate evaluation for an improvement project in health care.

Judgement and approach

• assess ethical risks in health care improvements, and
• critically contribute to the development of own and other students’ improvement ideas in health care.

Content

• Theories and models for health care improvements
• Evidence and evidence-based practice
• Theories and models for knowledge implementation in health care
• Strategies for knowledge implementation
• Theories and models for evaluating health care improvement initiatives
• Ethics in health care improvement