Six Steps to Improving Health Equity Using Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Tools.

• Tác giả: Jennifer C Broder, Helen Burstin, Dania Daye, Efren J Flores, Nia Foster, Nadja Kadom, Nolan J Kagetsu, Anand K Narayan, Jinel A Scott, Charlotte J Yong-Hing
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 346.004 *Equity
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Radiology , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 680401

Tóm tắt

Health equity is a foundational principle for providing high-quality care. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the urgency of health systems and regulatory agencies to address longstanding health disparities. Imaging disparities have been documented in the imaging literature for decades, but there is paucity of published interventions to successfully reduce disparities in imaging. Quality and safety approaches can be successfully employed to catalyze and rigorously evaluate interventions to reduce imaging disparities. Emerging from the Toyota Production System, the lean management framework focuses on continuous quality improvement to improve efficiency and reduce waste. Lean approaches have been successfully adopted by quality and safety experts in health care for problem-solving and process improvement. This article provides readers with step-by-step guidance on how to address health equity issues by adapting selected lean tools for quality improvement and patient safety. Core steps include