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Writing an essay on quality initiatives in healthcare in 2020 / 2021 and need help?

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For several years, healthcare has been an important topic, not just in the world at large, but also in academia.  Healthcare has been one of the fastest growing sectors of our economy, has offered a boom in terms of employment, and is a hot button political issue since access to healthcare remains very class-based in the modern United States.  The COVID-19 pandemic and what it has meant about access to health care and the quality of healthcare that is being provided has only made it that much more important to focus on quality initiatives in healthcare.  This is because the world has faced its greatest healthcare challenge in a century, and even though the advent of several highly effective vaccines mean that this pandemic may soon be under control, quality initiatives can improve the rollout of vaccine schedules and help improve overall healthcare, not only for the patients who directly benefit from those initiatives, but also for the people that they encounter.

Here are some ideas you could discuss for quality initiatives in healthcare in 2020/2021.

  1. The role of pharmacists in helping with vaccine distribution for COVID-19 shots and how the different storage demands for those vaccines impact that role.
  2. Prioritizing care for patients when resources are limited; how to engage in ethical decision making and research allocation.
  3. The use of telemed for the provision of routine medical services.
  4. Improving triage services in emergency care settings, especially under conditions with an airborne contagious disease pandemic.
  5. Early recognition of and timely intervention for sepsis patients upon first presentation at ER.
  6. Streamlining care to reduce costs per patient and how to do that without compromising individual patient care.
  7. Implementing off-label uses of medication for better patient outcomes.
  8. How using data-driven services improved outcomes for COVID-19 patients and reduced transmission of COVID-19 among certain populations.  

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