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HOSPITAL/   WHAT IS HSA/DSA?  COMMENCE?  THE FIRST EDITION OF
 WHEN DID IT
           THE TRAINING MODULE


           Authored by:
 DISTRICT    The “ground-up” local approach   HSA/DSA was developed alongside   • Hannu Vuori
 the NIA to be implemented
 to quality in healthcare. This local
           • Nafisah bt. Alihussein
 concurrently and to complement
 approach was meant to complement
           • Maimunah A. Hamid
 each other. However, the HSA/DSA
 the national approach of the NIA.
           • Indra Pathmanathan
 SPECIFIC   only took off in 1990, five years after   • S. Sivalal
 NIA’s implementation.
           • Zohrah Wong
           • N. Sivalingam
 APPROACH   1990       1990                           Nafisah bt. Alihussein
                                                       Hannu Vuori
                                                      Maimunah A. Hamid
                                                       Indra Pathmanathan
                                                        S. Sivalal

 (HSA/DSA)                                                                       2004                PRESENT TRAINING MODULES







                                                                                                 QA Training Modules were developed by the
                                                                                                 Institute for Health Systems Research (IHSR)
 2017  2012  2011        2009                                     2007                           with the assistance of Dr. A. F. Al-Assaf, Associate
                                                                                                 Professor and Consultant, Healthcare Quality and
                                                                                                 Preventive Medicine, USA. They include:
                                                                                                         Module 1: Promoting Quality
 SECOND EDITION OF THE   SECOND EDITION OF   COMPENDIUM OF QA   THE QA WORKBOOK  TRANSLATION OF THE      Module 2: Implementing Quality &
 COMPENDIUM OF QA PROJECTS  THE QA WORKBOOK  PROJECTS           TRAINING MODULE                                                    Improving Performance

         The first edition of the QA workbook was                                                        Module 3: Managing Performance
 QA projects from 2007 to 2017 were compiled     The second edition of the QA   The first compendium of QA projects   published, being a compilation of QA   The modules  were also used in other      Module 4: Training for Trainers
 into  this  compendium.  In  addition,  detailed   workbook built on the strengths   presented  at  the  National  QA  lecture notes, quality manuals, and training   WPRO countries and  translated
 analysis  and  classification  enabled  the  of the first edition, while making   Conventions (from 2003 to 2011) was   modules. It was intended to be used in   into the Vietnamese and Chinese
 compilation of various indicators in the mould   significant improvements to the   developed and served as a mini database   tandem with the “Module for Implementing   languages to facilitate learning in the
 of Donabedian’s Quality Framework. It is also   original.  of QA projects implemented in Malaysia.   Quality and Improving Performance”.  respective countries.
 available in an e-book version.















                                                           Vietnamese version

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