Number of deaths for leading causes of death. Heart disease: 614,348. â¢ Cancer: 591,699. â¢ Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 147,101. â¢ Accidents (unintentional injuries): 136,053. â¢ Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 133,103. â¢ Alzheimer's disease: 93,541.
Both risk management and quality management strategies must find ways to account for uncertainty. After all, in the quality management space there is no such thing as an absolutely perfect quality product. Handling risk is implicit in the day-to-day tasks of a successful quality management professional.
Principles of QI. When quality is considered from the IOM's perspective, then an organization's current system is defined as how things are done now, whereas health care performance is defined by an organization's efficiency and outcome of care, and level of patient satisfaction.uality is directly linked to an organization's service delivery approach or underlying systems of care. To achieve a different level of performance (i.e., results) and improve quality, an organization's current system needs to change.