Six Components Of High Quality in Health Care

In the US, millions of people visiting hospitals, caregiver, physicians every year. They were receiving health care treatment or medication which sometimes not inline with their expectations. There are most cases where some patients’ connection with the health care system fail to meet their expectation. It is estimated that more than thirty thousand people died in United States hospital every year caused by medical error which can be prevented.

In most cases, patients do not receiving the appropriate health care that hospitals deemed to provide. Well, we can’t totally blame hospital and find fault on them as the party that should take the responsibility. As you know that as medical institution, every hospitals vary greatly in their risk-adjusted mortality rates for Medicare patients.

The statistics on how hospitals give patients treatment is not look good, there are much room for improvement. Forty-three percent adults patients do not get proper and recommended chronic preventive care. Sadly, 30 percent patients seeking care for acute health care problems receive contraindicated treatment. Patients with hypertension, only 35 percent of them are adequately treated. In patients with diabetes or disease with long time treatment and control, sixty-five percent of them are having poorly controlled treatment and medication.

Ethnic, racial, and minority are often subject of different treatment. This group of patients are receiving an inferior quality health care compared with white-majority group patients. The likeliness of patients being injured and harmed by medical negligence is almost four times more compare in hospitals that serving predominately minority and low income patients than in hospitals with wealthier patients.

So, what is high quality health care? In one sentence it can be described as care that helps healthy people to stay healthy, cures acute illnesses, and lets chronically ill people to live as long and carrying through a life as possible.

Bellow we will describe six components of high quality health care.

Adequate Scientific Knowledge for supporting High Quality Health Care.
Knowledge is power and scientific knowledge in quality health care is in prominent position to make sure patients receiving the appropriate health care and not harmful one. If clear scientific knowledge fails to differentiate between effective and ineffective or harmful care, high quality health care may not be achieved.

Back to 1960 and 1970s, at that time scientific medical researches taught that estrogen replacement therapy, without giving progestin medication, was safe. There was no evidence that uterine cancer are related with estrogen replacement therapy at that time. Doctors and medical profession as a whole was depending on inadequate scientific knowledge. A great deal of what physicians do has never been evaluated by rigorous scientific experiment, and many therapies have not been adequately tested for side effects. Treatments of efficaciousness and unproven safety may cause harm and cost billions of dollars each year.

Adequate Access to Health Care.
To receive high quality health care, people must have the same access to employee health care. Group of people with reduced access due to their circumstances to health care suffered a major health care problem as the result to the limited access. They were in contrast position compared to other group that enjoying full access and benefit to health care. Not only the restriction caused major problem for them, but at the other side, medical institutions could not reach and give the proper treatment. There is a road block between both parties. In this issue the high quality of health care requires equality in access.

Medical Persons and Medical Institutions.
Capable and competent medical staffs, doctors, physician, nurses are pillar of providing high quality health care. Medical staff with high competency, skills and capability in their field have shown giving less serious error and lower complication rates.

How health care systems and institutions are organized has a major impact on health care outcomes. For example, intensive care units that did not require daily rounds by an ICU physician were associated with a threefold increase in in-hospital mortality in abdominal aortic surgeries. When intensives physicians provided continuous patient management either on-site or by remote tele monitoring methods, severity-adjusted ICU mortality dropped by 46% to 68% compared with usual care.