Brief analysis of the connection between EBP and the Quadruple Aim.

Your analysis should address how EBP might (or might not) help reach the Quadruple Aim, including each of the four measures of:

 

• Patient experience
• Population health
• Costs
• Work life of healthcare providers
• Read the articles by Sikka, Morath, & Leape (2015); Crabtree, Brennan, Davis, & Coyle (2016); and Kim et al. (2016) provided in the Resources.
• Reflect on how EBP might impact (or not impact) the Quadruple Aim in healthcare.
• Consider the impact that EBP may have on factors impacting these quadruple aim elements, such as preventable medical errors or healthcare delivery.

 

The relation between EBP and the Quadruple Aim

Evidence-based practice heavily depends on available scientific Evidence for choice-making in the clinical setting. Since its introduction, evidence-based practices have continued to gain ground in forming public policies, management, education, and nursing practice. As one of the most effective problem-solving approaches in clinical settings, evidence-based practice integrates the best available Evidence from well-designed values, the preferences of scientific studies, scientific studies of patients, and clinicians' expertise to make decisions regarding patient care.

Evidence-based providers' main aim is to ensure that patients are offered high quality and safe healthcare services. EBP embraces an interprofessional model for high chances of success where the emphasis on shared decision-making is greatly emphasized. In recent times nurses have widely embraced a positive attitude towards evidence-based practice. Its providers and the majority are ready to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to adopt the clinical practice.

The quadruple aim has four major goals mainly: improving patient experience, population health, the work-life of healthcare providers, and reducing healthcare-associated cost. The quadruple aim purposes of achieving the aforementioned goals through the redesigning of healthcare facilities. A highly productive health workforce is mandatory for an effective healthcare system. This is what promoted the translation of the triple aim to the quadruple aim by adding a fourth goal that is improving healthcare providers' work-life.

The development and adoption of evidence-based practice mainly improve the quality of healthcare services that patients receive and place a lot of value in inpatient care in clinical settings. Similarly, an evidence-based practice directly impacts healthcare providers' work-life since, to receive high quality and safe healthcare services, staff needs to be very productive. The purpose of every healthcare institution is to ensure that the lives of patients and that of healthcare staff providing healthcare services are improved.

Step-by-step explanation

Patient experience

All strategies used in evidence-based practice permit healthcare providers to translate the findings of research into clinical practice. By utilizing efficient searching skills of literature and formally applying the rules that guide Evidence to evaluate the research findings, nurses and other healthcare providers can efficiently apply existing scientific knowledge to clinical practice based on individual patient needs. As a result, this improves the quality of healthcare services that patients receive.

Population health

Evidence-based practices educate populations on the individual health determinants, the benefits, particular treatment limitations, healthcare, and cultural practices. Besides, individuals responsible for evidence-based practices integration in different population settings work to ensure the resources are distributed equally to achieve certain targets. Classification of populations can be based on needs identified by the support received from one's or family health status and individual socioeconomic status. Thus, it enhances efficiency and equity in the distribution and allocation of resources for health enhancement.  

Costs

One of the main issues for many healthcare facilities is linked directly with the measure of per capita costs of healthcare as it requires capturing, indexing of costs to the healthcare market, and measurement of the actual costs related to healthcare expenditures. Therefore, it is a huge challenge for most healthcare institutions to provide safe and quality healthcare services at lower healthcare costs. When an institution embraces the use of the latest technology to improve efficiency and most current treatment methods as revealed through evidence-based practice, the quality of care and the costs automatically increase.

The work-life of healthcare providers-

Interprofessional collaboration should be supported by the major component of a favorable healthcare environment. Patient health results, as well as healthcare providers' satisfaction, have been improved through interpersonal collaboration. Moreover, it minimizes both turnover and burnout rates of the provider, which enhances staff productivity.