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Six Dimensions of Care
Quality Reports
In 2001, the Institute of Medicine outlined six Aims for Improvement for health care in their report, "Crossing the Quality Chasm: a New Health System for the 21st Century." These overarching principles help provide specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others to implement change and improve health care.
Each quality measure featured on the website incorporates one or more principles from the Six Dimensions of Care list to best represent our quality care and improvement efforts.
Six Dimensions of Care:
1. Safe: Avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them.
2. Effective: Providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit (avoiding underuse and overuse). Doing the right thing for the right person at the right time.
3. Family-centered: Providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
4. Timely: Reducing waits and sometimes unfavorable delays for both those who receive and those who give care.
5. Efficient: Avoiding waste, in particular waste of equipment, supplies, ideas and energy.
6. Equal: Providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socio-economic status.
Adapted from the Institute of Medicine's aims for improvement. Note: the institute refers to patient-centered versus family-centered and equitable versus equal.
How is Children's Wisconsin demonstrating the Six Dimensions of Care:
Diagnostic, anesthesia and surgical health
Our highly specialized surgical health teams, pediatric-trained anesthesiologists and high-quality diagnostics teams provide the best diagnoses and treatment options for you and your family.
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