What is 'good' care and how to manage it

13 important questions on What is 'good' care and how to manage it

How was quality of care from 1960/1970?

Focus moved to broader workplace and clinical procedures
> still domain of professionals

What happend around 1990?

>Major scandals> political inquiries (UK)
>quality and safety increasingly on the radar of 'external' (non-professional) actors
> critique against 'paternalistic' professionals and ineffective services
> introduction of New Public management and make principles

Why rankings in quality of care?

> supports consumer choice
> makes quality transparant > incentive for improvement
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Why use quantified quality frameworks?

> generate 'objective data' that allows for comparison
> 'break' professional dominance by challenging their claim for exclusive knowledge
> 'demystifies' professional practice by making it visible: enabling 'outsiders' to evaluate performance

>> information makes management possible, shifting the power balance away from professionals

What are the practical critiques of qualification?

> ' selective' performance: diverts focus to what is measured
> rankings give an 'average' performance: concealing diversity in performance

What are the fundamental critiques on quantification?

> assumption of linear cause-effect
> selective: what is being measured?
> different perspectives on what matters for 'quality'

What are the two key assumptions for 'management by measurement?

>Technical: practices and their effects can be identified and classified
> normative: the standards for evaluating 'good' practices are uncontested

What is the basic assumption from the mainstream approach?

> if we know where quality is compromised or at risk, we can fix it

What does the mainstream approach?

> systematic measurement, e.g., incident reporting
> identifying risk factors and potential problems in the work place
> intervene: implement new work procedures, introduce safety tools, etc. (technical solutions)

Why is the mainstream approach also seen as limited?

> too linear: causality often unclear
> too superficial on social/cultural/political context of care

What is the alternative 'sociological' approach?

Care practices (and quality improvement efforts) deeply embedded in broader social, cultural and political structures and processes

What happend after 1960 in effort?

Effort to exert 'external' control over the quality of professional care practices

What does quantitative measurement frameworks?

They enable such external "quality management", making professional practice transparant

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