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.

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.

Your analysis should address how EBP might (or might not) help reach the Quadruple Aim, including each of the four measures of:

Patient experience

Population health

Costs

Work life of healthcare providers

 

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Evidence-Based Practice and the Quadruple Aim

Introduction

The quadruple aim is a framework for evidence-based practice (EBP). It is a way of thinking about health care that emphasizes the benefits of improving the experience of patients, improving population health, reducing costs and improving clinician well-being. This article will explore how all four components work together to improve patient outcomes, cost effective care and overall wellness in all phases of health care delivery.

The aim of the quadruple aim is to improve the health of a population, enhance the patient experience and decrease costs while improving the well-being of clinicians.

The quadruple aim is a set of goals for healthcare. It’s based on evidence-based practice, which means that it’s clinically relevant and uses the best available research to improve patient care. The four aims of evidence-based practice are:

• Improving population health by reducing disease burden and improving chronic disease management;

• Enhancing patient experience through better communication with clinicians, patients and families;

• Improving efficiency in order to reduce costs while improving quality;

• Increasing well-being for clinicians through learning about their own values and behaviours in relation to these four objectives.

The first component of the quadruple aim is to improve the patient experience.

The first component of the quadruple aim is to improve the patient experience. The patient experience is an important part of evidence-based practice and it’s something that can be improved by using evidence-based practice methods.

The purpose of this article is to provide you with some ideas on how you can help your patients have a better experience, whether they’re inpatient or outpatient care.

The second component of the quadruple aim is to improve population health.

The second component of the quadruple aim is to improve population health. This is a complex task, as it involves not only improving health care but also addressing issues such as social determinants of health (e.g., poverty, homelessness), environmental factors like air quality and access to clean water, systems that support people (e.g., education) and even broader concepts like equity in access to resources or opportunities for all members of society regardless of background or circumstances.

This doesn’t mean that evidence-based practice isn’t useful; it just means that evidence-based practice needs to be applied with an eye toward improving population health rather than solely focusing on individual outcomes for individuals with certain diagnoses or conditions.*

The third component of the quadruple aim is to lower per capita cost.

The third component of the quadruple aim is to lower per capita cost. The healthcare industry is facing increasing costs, and patients are becoming increasingly concerned about their health care costs. Clinicians are finding it hard to keep up with these rising costs, which can lead them to make bad decisions on behalf of their patients. Governments have also felt pressure from these increased costs and want more control over how they spend public money (which is why there are now stricter rules around public-private partnerships).

The overall goal here is simple: we want everyone involved in healthcare—patients, clinicians, governments—to get better value for money by spending less on each person’s care than they would otherwise spend if they weren’t using evidence-based practices (EBP).

The fourth component of the quadruple aim is to improve clinician well-being.

The fourth component of the quadruple aim is to improve clinician well-being. As we know, health professionals are the most important part of any healthcare system. They interact directly with patients and their families in hospitals, clinics, homes and other settings. They make decisions about patient care based on evidence from research studies that focus on improving outcomes for all patients. They must also live with the consequences of these decisions when things don’t go as planned—and sometimes not at all!

In recent years there has been an increased focus on providing better training for new graduates so they can become effective practitioners who provide high-quality care while also maintaining good mental health themselves (Borges et al., 2016). However this approach has been criticized because some people feel it’s necessary just because they’re working in a field where stress levels are high enough already without adding more pressure through teaching techniques that may not really suit everyone’s personality type; while others think it’s just another way for academics within universities or colleges across Australia who receive government funding every year through grants allocated specifically towards teaching purposes only one day per week per semester at university campuses across Australia.”

Conclusion

The quadruple aim is a new way of thinking about the clinical encounter. It focuses on what we do as clinicians, not just what we say or how much money we spend. The benefit to clinicians is clear: they can be more effective in their work, patients have a better experience and per capita costs are lowered. The great thing about this system is that there are no winners or losers—it’s all about improving patient outcomes and making healthcare more affordable for everyone who needs it