This article discusses how our company supports the Institute of Medicine's six quality domains in healthcare, and highlights how Spotfire Statistica can be used to predict and reduce surgical site infections, thereby enhancing various dimensions of healthcare quality.
The Institute of Medicine (IoM) defines healthcare quality as "the degree to which healthcare services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge." We supports these six quality domains provided by the IoM:
- Effectiveness: Relates to providing care processes and achieving outcomes as supported by scientific evidence.
- Efficiency: This relates to maximizing the quality of a comparable unit of health care delivered or unit of health benefit achieved for a given unit of health care resources used.
- Equity: This relates to providing health care of equal quality to those who may differ in personal characteristics other than their clinical condition or preferences for care.
- Patient centeredness. Relates to meeting patients' needs and preferences and providing education and support.
- Safety: Relates to actual or potential bodily harm.
- Timeliness: Relates to obtaining needed care while minimizing delays.
Surgical complications, such as surgical site infections that occur after a patient is discharged, are the most common reasons for unplanned hospital readmission according to a study from Northwestern Medicine and the American College of Surgeons, published February 3, 2015 in JAMA. These infections can be reduced using Spotfire Statistica, improving virtually every IoM dimension of healthcare quality:
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