Center for Patient Safety & Health Policy
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Aims
- To integrate quality and safety concepts into our everyday work
- Increase quality and safety of clinical care
- Enhance organizational knowledge through dissemination of successful practices
- Enhance productivity and efficiency
- Integrate quality improvement efforts into health services/outcomes research and health policy
- Train the next generation of health professionals to incorporate quality improvement practices in their work
Objectives
- To train a core of individuals at UTHSCSA in quality improvement methods
- Implement quality and safety through project-based learning at levels of UTHSCSA
- Contain costs by improving infrastructure and support systems
- Dissemination of quality improvement methods within and outside of system