Aravind Eye Care System
Scaling up Quality(our Perspectives & Lessons)
Thulasiraj RavillaLAICO - Aravind Eye Care System
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Quality is critical
• To scale up eye care services • In scaled up eye care services - to sustain it
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Our Quality Paradigm
• Do no harm• Right Patient, right site
& right treatment• Safe facility• Communication
• Patient at the centre of service design & care giving process
• Patient friendly systems & facility
• Maintaining Patient Dignity
• Appropriate clinical protocol
• Clinical outcomes• Eliminating
complications• Enhancing Compliance
• Eliminating waste• Standardization• Value for money• Enhancing utilization• Minimizing delays
• Timely care – reaching the patient before it is too late
• Everyone in need gets care
• Gets appropriate care without gender, social, economic or location bias
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Scaling up Quality
DNA
Design
QA Process
M & E
Tech-nology
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Designing for Quality
• Understanding the “non-customer” and designing the eye care services– Outreach with transportation – Vision Centers – Pricing & Free care: freedom to choose– Closing the service loop
• Patient as a partner in the care process– Empowerment & counseling
• Stretching the institutional boundary – to ensure ultimate impact, the Quality of Life
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Service Design: Customer in Focus & End to end solutions
Creating Awareness
Diagnostic Services
Counselling
TreatmentServices
Follow-up Services
Prescription for Glasses
Benefits,Cost, etc
On the spot dispensing
In schools &Industries
e. g: SpectaclesKnowledge about
the condition
Addressing Access Issues
Empowering the customer
Addressing Access & Affordability Issues
Outcome Assessment, QA, Product Design
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Quality Assurance Process
• Building the “quality culture”– Focus on process & not person– Willingness to flag/record errors
• Systems to ensure quality (Safety & Effectiveness)– Review, root cause analysis & solutions– Follow-through on actions
• Benchmarking – internal & external• Continuous Improvement
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Standardization Clinical protocols & Process
• Clarity in role • Decision making easier• Easy to train staff• Better use of equipment• Quality improvements
Start with common activities• Cataract surgery• Refraction Services
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Refraction Protocol – 13 steps• Check preliminary vision PG power and vision with PG• Patients complaints & vision needs• Use torch light for finding eye condition• Do pin hole test, Duochrome test, cross cylinder • If difference is 0.25 not to prescribe • Check diplopia, prescribe glass for BSV• Ask the patient profession • Advise at 33 cms for reading books• Confirm the patients age, working distance for NV add• Compare present testing power& patients PG power• Always do not over correct• Satisfy your patient, by asking questions and counseling• Check the final prescription
Bottom LineRight Process, Performed well
Results inGood Quality & Outcomes
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Monitoring – process & outcomes
• Probably the most critical aspect in quality assurance
• What do we monitor: inputs, process, output & outcomes
• How do we monitor: timeliness, accuracy, completeness
• Monitoring to be integral to workflow• Use of IT to make the process painless
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What we look for in Technology / Techniques
• Will it minimize complications • Will it Improve visual outcomes• Will it enhance productivity• Will it minimize follow up• Will it reduce cost• Will it improve comfort & satisfaction
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Using cutting edge technology
Reduced complications
Less stressIncreased
productivity
enhanced margin of safety
CompetitiveAdvantage
Doctors
Use only reliable, thoroughly tested technology that serves your people and
process - Toyota 14
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Surgical Quality2
Adverse Events During SurgeryAravind,
CoimbatoreN=22,912
UK National Survey
N=18,472Capsule rupture & vitreous loss 2.0% 4.4%Incomplete cortical clean up 0.75% 1.00%Iris Trauma 0.3% 0.7%Persistent Iris Prolapse 0.01% 0.07%Anterior Chamber Collapse 0.3% 0.5%Loss of nuclear fragment into vit. 0.2% 0.3%Choroidal Haemorrhage ------ 0.07%Loss of IOLinto vitreous 0.01% 0.16%
Aravind’s complications are less than half of those in UK
2 “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” by C. K. Prahalad
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Work Culture & Discipline
• Commitment of leadership
• Attitude for perfection• Passion to eliminate
needless blindness
Systems, Processes & Technology are critical to quality but they will fail in the absence of right
“Work Culture & Discipline”
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