This document discusses quality performance indicators in clinical laboratories and their importance for patient safety. It defines quality performance indicators as measurable metrics that laboratories use to monitor performance in meeting strategic goals. The document lists many common quality indicators for different areas of the total testing process, from pre-analytic to analytic to post-analytic. It emphasizes that quality indicators help improve quality, pinpoint potential problems, and ensure patient safety. The document stresses the importance of benchmarking and selecting indicators based on criteria like validity, reliability and feasibility.
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1. Quality Performance Indicators
and their values in Patient Safety
Dr. Rana Nabulsi .PhD, MSc ,CPHQ , CSSGB, EFQM
Head of Quality – Pathology & Genetics Department
Dubai Health Authority – Dubai-UAE
2. Objectives
Define the Quality Performance Indicators.
List the most common Quality Performance Indicators
used in the clinical laboratory.
Discuss how Quality Performance Indicators are related
to patient safety.
Illustrate why we need Quality Performance Indicators &
Benchmarking in our laboratories.
Discuss the criteria for selecting the best Quality
Performance Indicators.
3. What are Quality
Performance Indicators?
A set of measureable indicators that a
Laboratory uses to monitor the performance of
operations in terms of meeting the strategic
goals of Healthcare System.
4. Objectives and Goals of Medical
Laboratories
Patient Safety
Accuracy and Reliability of results
Stakeholders Satisfaction
Operational Excellence.
Growth and professional development.
Financial results
15. Patient Safety
Institute of Medicine (IOM)/NAM claimed that
as many as 1 million patients per year suffer
injuries due to medical errors.
The Joint Commission (JC) issued International
Patient Safety Guidelines (IPSG).
17. Quality Performance
Indicators
As per Institute of Medicine /NAM, Quality Performance
Indicators shall have the following dimensions :
Patient safety
Timeliness
Effectiveness
Equity
Efficiency
Patient-centered care
18. International Patient Safety
Goals
IPSG 1: Identify Patient correctly.
IPSG 2: Improve Effective Communication.
IPSG 3: Improve safety of high alert medication.
IPSG 4: Ensure correct site, procedure and patient
surgery.
IPSG 5: Reduce the risk of Health Care-Associated
Infections.
IPSG 6 : Reduce patient falls.
20. Quality Performance Indicators
Pre Examination
Specimen ID &Labeling errors
Blood culture Contamination
Patient lD errors Accuracy of Test Order Entry
Rejection of samples Incidents at Collection
23. Accuracy of Test Order entry
Performance Indicators Rate (%)
Accurate Test orders 94,972 99.97%
Test(s) Missing 25 0.03
Wrong Test 7 0.01
Total of test order errors: 32 0.04%
42. Other Quality Performance
Indicators
Timeliness of responding to clinical advice .
Operating Room Blood Delivery Turn Around Time.
Completeness of Cancer Reporting.
% of cases of Molecular Testing in Anatomic Pathology that
adhere to established Clinical guidelines.
43. Why Use Quality Indicators?
Performance effectiveness.
Patient Safety
Easier decision making.
Measure of laboratory processes and
outcomes.
Monitor changes.
Detect potential problems.
45. Criteria for Quality Indicators
selection
Validity :Does the KPI measure what it is supposed to
measure?
Reliability: Does the KPI provide a consistent measure?
Acceptability: Are the KPIs acceptable?
Feasibility :Is it possible to collect the required data and is it
worth the resources?
Explicit evidence base :Is the KPI supported by scientific
evidence?
46. How to develop Quality
Indicators?
Definition
Name, purpose, scope, authority, domain.
Method of data collection and Analysis.
-Numerator , Denominator, frequency, calculations.
Targets
-International bench mark.
-organizational performance goal
-Evidence base.
51. Benchmarking
• Is the practice of being humble enough to admit that
some organizations are better than you at something and
wise enough to try and learn from them their best
practice.
American Productivity and Quality Center-1988
53. Why Benchmarking ?
Better Awareness of Our Laboratory
What we are doing
How we are doing it
How well we are doing it
Better Awareness of the Best laboratories
What they are doing
How they are doing it
How well they are doing it
54. Benchmarking and World
Class Performance
Benchmark Purpose and Quality Maturity
I
Learning
from
success
VI
National
leadership
II
Borrowing
ideas
III
Best-in-
firm
IV
Beating
industry
standards
V
Best-in-
class
Quality
Maturity
55. Levels Of Benchmarking
Internal benchmarking - Within one’s organization.
Competitive benchmarking - Analysis the performance
and practices of best in class laboratories.
Non-competitive benchmarking -Is learning something
about a process a laboratory wants to improve by
benchmarking.
World class benchmarking - Ambitious and looking
towards recognized leader.
56. Why laboratories need Quality Indicators &
Benchmarking
Quality Improvement and Patient safety.
Satisfying Accreditation Requirements.
Satisfying Payer Requirements.
Positioning the Laboratory in a Competitive
Marketplace.
Enforce accountability.
Staff Motivation.
57. Satisfying Accreditation
Requirements
CLLIA (The Clinical Laboratory Improvement
Amendment ).
The Joint Commission .
Collage of American Pathology (CAP).
ISO 15189 standards for medical laboratories.
labmedicine.com February 2008 Volume 39 Number
61. Sources of Quality Performance
Indicators for Laboratories
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ )
National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) Web sites.
College of American Pathologists (CAP) Web sites .
NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance )
Accreditation.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
PubMed database using various terms
Shahram & Snyder. Am J Clin Pathol 2009;131:418 - 431
62.
63. Take Home Messages
Medical Laboratories need to report the Right
test result to the Right patient at the Right
time in the Right form. In addition, it should
be the Right test choice with the Right
interpretation and with the Right advice.
64. Take Home Messages
Reliable Quality Performance Indicators play
a key role in improving the quality of
laboratory services and patient Safety.
66. References:
Quality indicators in laboratory medicine: A fundamental tool
for quality and patient safety.Mario Plebani a, Laura
Sciacovelli a,Mariela Marinova a, Jessica Marcuccitti a,
Maria Laura Chiozza b 2014.
Harmonization of laboratory testing — Current
achievements and future strategies. 2013.Jillian R Tate a,⁎,
Roger Johnson b, Julian Barthc, Mauro Panteghini.
Quality indicators to detect pre-analytical errors in laboratory
testing. 2014 .M. Plebani a,⁎, L. Sciacovelli a, A. Aita a, A.
Padoana, M.L. Chiozza b.
67. References:
College of American Pathologists.www.cap.org.
Reducing Errors in the Practices of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine. David A. Novis, MD, 1,2 and
George Konstantakos,Mario Plebani . Clin Chem
LabMed 2012.
Benchmarking Laboratory Quality.Paul Valenstein,
MD, Frank Schneider, MD2.
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Shahram Shahangian & Susan Snyder, Am J Clinc
Pathol 2009; 131: 418 – 431.