QA # 2

The Quality tool I read for this week is “Renal Artery Stenosis Treatment.” Renal Stenosis is disease of kidney and it causes arteries to shrink. The main function of kidney is to control blood pressure and with renal disorder person can have hypertension, cardio and renal disorders. The main reason of Renal Stenosis is plaque can build up and narrow the arteries. The scary part of the whole story is, there are no symptoms for this disorder, and most of the people would not know it till last stage of disorder. The most common way of treatment is using blood pressure pill or angioplasty, and both of the treatments have many side effects as well.

The article I was interesting in for this week is “Benchmarking in Business and Health Care Settings.” Benchmarking is very important tool for quality improvement in every business, but it has very high impact in health care business. Since customers are very concern about quality of healthcare organization, benchmarking has become a part of the business. Benchmarking is used to identify “Best Practice.” It can be perform internally or externally to improve or increase quality.
Also, I reviewed Tammi Worrell‘s blog. She discussed importance of quality improvement by reviewing the article “Quality Improvement projects….” I think quality improvement is very important in every business, but it is the most important part in healthcare. When people are dealing with other people’s lives, quality can become a matter of somebody’s life. Many clinicians think that they are not responsible for the quality, but quality only can be improved by working as a team. Giving training to the clinician about quality is very good idea, and I am completely agree on that.
Article can be find at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/412648_2