Ensuring Quality Care in the COVID-19 Era: Applying the Donabedian Model to Tertiary Wound Care Center Practices.
Ensuring Quality Care in the COVID-19 Era: Applying the Donabedian Model to Tertiary Wound Care Center Practices.
- 2023
Available online from MWHC library: 1996 - present, Available in print through MWHC library: 1999 - 2006
The coronavirus disease of 2019 pandemic has disrupted health care, with its far-reaching effects seeping into chronic disease evaluation and treatment. Our tertiary wound care center was specially designed to deliver the highest quality care to wounded patients. Before the pandemic, we were able to ensure rapid treatment by means of validated protocols delivered by a colocalized multidisciplinary team within the hospital setting. The pandemic has disrupted our model's framework, and we have worked to adapt our workflow without sacrificing quality of care. Using the modified Donabedian model of quality assessment, we present an analysis of prepandemic and intrapandemic characteristics of our center. In this way, we hope other providers can use this framework for identifying evolving problems within their practice so that quality care can continue to be delivered to all patients.
English
1930-8264
10.7547/20-080 [doi] 441493 [pii]
*COVID-19
Humans
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
Quality of Health Care--Automated
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital/MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Plastic Surgery Residency
Surgery/Plastic Surgery
Surgery/Podiatric Surgery
Journal Article
Available online from MWHC library: 1996 - present, Available in print through MWHC library: 1999 - 2006
The coronavirus disease of 2019 pandemic has disrupted health care, with its far-reaching effects seeping into chronic disease evaluation and treatment. Our tertiary wound care center was specially designed to deliver the highest quality care to wounded patients. Before the pandemic, we were able to ensure rapid treatment by means of validated protocols delivered by a colocalized multidisciplinary team within the hospital setting. The pandemic has disrupted our model's framework, and we have worked to adapt our workflow without sacrificing quality of care. Using the modified Donabedian model of quality assessment, we present an analysis of prepandemic and intrapandemic characteristics of our center. In this way, we hope other providers can use this framework for identifying evolving problems within their practice so that quality care can continue to be delivered to all patients.
English
1930-8264
10.7547/20-080 [doi] 441493 [pii]
*COVID-19
Humans
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
Quality of Health Care--Automated
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital/MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Plastic Surgery Residency
Surgery/Plastic Surgery
Surgery/Podiatric Surgery
Journal Article