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Module 1 – SLP

AN INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE QUALITY AND
ACCREDITATION AGENCIES

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) developed a Model for Quality in Healthcare and it is
composed of six vital domains:

Cummings, G. G., Reid, C., Estabrooks, C. A., Norton, P. G., Cummings, G. E., Rowe, B. H., …
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12(1):75. doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-12-75

For this assignment, you will pose as the Quality and Accreditation Officer at Trident
International Hospital (TIH). You are to develop a multi-departmental PowerPoint
(PPT) training using the six domains outlined by the IOM. In an 8- to 10-slide
presentation (not including the title and reference slides), complete the following:

Define and explain the relevance of each of the quality domains.

Provide a detailed healthcare quality example for each domain

Discuss the types of measures used to assess and compare quality; Structural
Measures, Process Measures, and Outcome Measures: Types of Health Care
Quality Measures (https://www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/types.html)

Using Measures of Quality for Different Health Care Settings, choose two settings
from the list of four and discuss and describe its measurement sets in detail

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SLP Assignment Expectations

Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to justify/support your
training.

1. Limit your response to a maximum of 10 slides (title and reference slide is not
included in page number count).

2. Support your responses with peer-reviewed articles, with 2 to 3 references. Use
the following link for additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed
journals:
How to Recognize Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journals
http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php.

3. You may use the following source to assist in formatting your assignment:
Purdue Owl – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.

4. For additional information on reliability of sources, review the following
source: https://nccih.nih.gov/health/webresources.

5. This assignment will be graded based on the content in the rubric.

6. Be sure that you do not cut and paste material into your slides, but use proper
quotations where needed, and also citations for all reference materials. The same
expectations apply to PowerPoint presentations as to documents.