Title: Quality and Safety Measures in Inpatient and Ambulatory Care Settings: Developing a Patient Safety Strategy for Population Health

Directions
Quality and safety measures vary greatly from an inpatient setting, where people are cared for episodically, to an ambulatory care setting, where they are seen over time.
In your initial post, address the following:
Briefly compare and contrast quality initiatives in these different settings.
Describe how in an ambulatory care setting you could develop a patient safety strategy to foster population health based on the five target areas described in Chapter 14 of your textbook.
Provide concrete examples of a strategy for each of these five target areas.