NURS 6052 Week 1 Assignment: Evidence-Based Practice and the Quadruple Aim
Healthcare organizations continually seek to optimize healthcare performance. For years, this approach was a three-pronged one known as the Triple Aim, with efforts focused on improved population health, enhanced patient experience, and lower healthcare costs.
More recently, this approach has evolved to a Quadruple Aim by including a focus on improving the work life of healthcare providers. Each of these measures are impacted by decisions made at the organizational level, and organizations have increasingly turned to EBP to inform and justify these decisions.
To Prepare:
- Read the articles by Sikka, Morath, &Leape (2015); Crabtree, Brennan, Davis, & Coyle (2016); and Kim et al. (2016) provided in the Resources. NURS 6052 Week 1 Assignment: Evidence-Based Practice and the Quadruple Aim
- Reflect on how EBP might impact (or not impact) the Quadruple Aim in healthcare.
- Consider the impact that EBP may have on factors impacting these quadruple aim elements, such as preventable medical errors or healthcare delivery.
To Complete:
Write a brief analysis (no longer than 2 pages) of the connection between EBP and the Quadruple Aim.
- The analysis should address how Evidence Based Practice might (or might not) help reach the Quadruple Aim, including each of the four measures of:
1. Patient experience
2. Population health
3. Costs
4. Work life of healthcare providers - The analysis clearly and accurately addresses in detail how evidence-based practice either supports or does not support the Quadruple Aim.
The analysis should accurately and thoroughly explains in detail how the four measures of patient experience, population health, costs, and work-life of healthcare providers either supports or does not support the Quadruple Aim
SOLUTION
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE AND THE QUADRUPLE AIM
Introduction
Healthcare providers’ evidence-based approach is crucial to achieving the triple objective. The IHI’s Quadruple Aim is a strategy for improving healthcare delivery. Evidence-based practice is based on scientifically supported research results in everyday clinical practice. The seven-step, multi-dimensional approach to healthcare problem-solving that constitutes evidence-based practice is built on incorporating the standards of clinical knowledge into normative values and personality traits. To explain how the evidenced-based practice criteria might be used in diverse contexts to accomplish the quadruple purpose, this study draws on some highly regarded scientific works.
Patient Experience A patient’s level of pleasure with their visit to a medical office is directly proportional to how relaxed and content they report feeling there. Incorporating EBP into healthcare……………………………$10
