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Introduction
With today's rapid healthcare reforms, the O&P practitioner's ability to quantify the quality of healthcare delivery and treatment cost-effectiveness is seminal to the future success of clinical practice. The evolution of total quality management in the manufacturing sector created concepts of quality control procedures. Today medical orthotics and prosthetics private practitioners assess and use outcomes measures as the principal mode of quality evaluation of healthcare delivery. All this thanks to the ever increasing amount of practitioners that enrol in the B.Tech Degree enabling them to improve on their professional capabilities in O&P practice.
The future of successful patient management (Fig. 1) will require routine control processes in the form of, good skills and abilities as a manager/supervisor, enough resources at your disposal, good organisational skills and motivation and commitment.
rehabilitation.
Figure 1: A whole set of factors feed into the likely success of a patient rehabilitation. (www.allaboutbusiness.com)
The O&P practice can benefit from objective documentation, data collection and outcomes measures if these tasks are performed in a routine and uniform manner; these practices can improve patient evaluation and measurement, aid in selecting the most appropriate appliances, help negotiate provider contracts, reinforce ethical practice management and minimize the risk of litigation.
Why is control so important? Planning can be done, an organisational structure can be created to efficiently facilitate the achievement of goals, and employees can be motivated through effective leadersh ...