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Johns Hopkins University

Measuring the Success of a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety VI)

How will you know if your patient safety and quality project is meeting its objectives? Peter Drucker once said “What gets measured, gets managed.” In this course, students will learn why measurement is critical to quality improvement work. Equally important, they will learn which data sources provide the most meaningful information and tools for how and where to locate them. Finally, students will learn how to interpret data from their patient safety and quality projects to guide and modify them during implementation to maximize their chances of making a difference for patients.

Status: Descriptive Statistics
Status: Performance Measurement
Course7 hours

Featured reviews

AM

5.0Reviewed Nov 20, 2021

​measuring the success in healthcare is really challenging. This course helped me to understand the metrics used for quality improvement projects and how can we sustain such type of improvements.

RC

5.0Reviewed Sep 10, 2022

T​hank you so much to Coursera and John Hopkins University. Really valuable topics.

MM

4.0Reviewed Jul 20, 2020

I want to thank you JHU and Coursera for this course, but I think this could be a better experience if you provide some literature about the different cases seen on the course.

SS

5.0Reviewed May 23, 2018

Finally we are here at the final stage. Interesting course content and Fantastic mentors. I am very grateful to both mentors and Coursera.

JA

5.0Reviewed May 3, 2019

Great course by all standards and the lecturers too are fantastic

NK

4.0Reviewed Aug 29, 2020

Thanks a lot to make me in this wonderful opportunity to learn about patient safety and quality improvement.

GA

5.0Reviewed Feb 16, 2026

Glad I chose this platform to study and learn. It was user-friendly, and I felt I was in a classroom.

NA

5.0Reviewed Jun 4, 2020

Excellent. My concept of data collection, designing, analysis and interpratation has tremendously improved. Have also learned how to use different tools in Quality Improvent Projects

M

4.0Reviewed Sep 7, 2020

This course was really helpful for me. But it is difficult to get peer reviews for the peer-graded assignment.

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