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Continuous quality improvement (CQI) has been in place since the early 1990s (McSweeney-Feld, 2017). The need for quality improvement depends on guaranteeing the safety of the care provided to patients.

The check sheet is a great, simple quality improvement tool to ensure the flow of a process. In addition, it provides a more reasonable interpretation of a situation via the usage of information. Another quality improvement model is the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) model. PDSA presents an organized, adaptable, and direct approach toward quality improvement. This method involves designing, testing, and investigating theories. If a problem is identified through the process, a new adaptation can be implemented, thus generating a new plan for the future (Spath, 2017).

Mandatory reporting and voluntary reporting are two closely related reporting systems to deliver safe care. In addition, mandatory reporting includes Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI). QAPI aims to formalize the necessity of compulsory reporting of quality checks and guarantees. Root cause analysis (RCA) assures safety in healthcare while answering the question of "Why?" during the process (Olden, 2019). Answering the "why" question would help identify a problem's source. In addition, identifying the origin of the situation would allow us to control any future happenings of adverse events. Additionally, Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is another essential quality assuring tool. FMEA involves considering all the possible scenarios of a possible error within a procedure, which allows for imagining multiple scenarios (McSweeney-Feld, 2017). A thorough, stepwise investigation of any potential consequences within a process enables one to explore the reasons behind a technique. As a result, strategies to overcome failure can be developed through good understanding. Finally, models to pursue improvements can be well explored through Lean and Six Sigma models. The Six Sigma model focuses to eliminate weaknesses and destruction and leads to enhancing efficiency (Olden, 2019).

Despite the multiple quality assurance tools, circumstances of error could happen. Pharmaceutical errors are common, severe concerns within healthcare. There have been suggestions that a webbased medication error reporting method would be manageable and will be a valuable tool for preventing any errors that may occur in the future (Pierson et al., 2007). Webbased error reporting approach would be a pathway to a reasonable quality assurance method. Emphasis should be delivered to ensure continued analysis on guaranteeing quality within any healthcare facility.