HTHSCI 4NR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Six Sigma, Logistic Regression, Patient Safety
22 Apr 2019
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Patient safety: patient safety is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum. Adverse events: any problematic occurrence that may present due to treatment. Systems thinking: a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system"s constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. The systems thinking approach contrasts with traditional analysis, which studies systems by breaking them down into their separate elements. Logic models: logistic regression is used to obtain odds ratio in the presence of more than one explanatory variable. Especially in epidemiologic studies, allowing multiple explanatory variables being analyzed simultaneously, meanwhile reducing the effect of confounding factors. Root cause analysis: a systematic process for identifying root causes of problems or events and an approach for responding to them.
