QI
Quality Improvement (QI) - the combined and unceasing efforts of everyone to make changes that will lead to better patient outcomes (health), better system performance (care), and better professional development (learning)
Quality Improvement encompasses all of the changes made to improve health and health care delivery. It is the systematic and continuous actions that lead to measurable improvement in health care services and the health status of targeted patient groups.
Triple Aim Explained
The Triple Aim in practice ... The system would provide coordinated care for individuals in the population, with access to up-to-date knowledge and evidence on effective care. The costs of doing so should be transparent, especially the costs over time for the individual and for the population.
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Structural Competency
the trained ability to discern how a host of issues defined clinically as symptoms, attitudes, or diseases (e.g., depression, hypertension, obesity, smoking...) also represent the downstream implications of a number of upstream decisions about such matters as health care and food delivery systems, zoning laws, urban and rural infrastructures...or even the very definitions of illness and health
~ Structural competency: Theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality