Resources

Home/Resources

Latest articles and information - Tag :: Tool

Access a range of articles and resources written by clinical governance experts and search our carefully curated list of safety and quality journal articles and reports.

AICG articles, resources and curated journals and reports are available to all AICG members. Members must be logged in, in order to access all content. Users who are not AICG members will only be able to access publicly available articles. 

AICG Articles

Showing 1–8 of 8 articles
IHI Sustainability Planning Sheet
IHI Sustainability Planning Sheet

There are certain areas an improvement team needs to consider to ensure the long-term sustainability of an improvement effort. Use this worksheet to help plan for success before you achieve the improvement you want to sustain, to make sure your hard-won improvements stick.

Change
Improvement
Member
Tool
Quality Improvement Made Simple - what everyone should know about health care quality improvement
Quality Improvement Made Simple - what everyone should know about health care quality improvement

Quality improvement involves the use of a systematic and coordinated approach to solving a problem using specific methods and tools with the aim of bringing about measurable improvement within a healthcare setting.

Change
Improvement
Member
Tool
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: 'Displaying the Data in a Health Care Quality Report'
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: 'Displaying the Data in a Health Care Quality Report'

Guidance from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality on how to present data in a quality report. 

Member
Reporting
Tool
A guide to using data for healthcare quality improvement
A guide to using data for healthcare quality improvement

The purpose of this guide is to assist all members of the healthcare team to understand the role of data in quality improvement and how to apply some basic techniques for using data to support their quality improvement efforts.

Data
Member
Reporting
Tool
NSW Clinical Excellence Commission data collection and reporting tools: control charts
NSW Clinical Excellence Commission data collection and reporting tools: control charts

Control charts, also known as Shewhart Charts or Statistical Process Control Charts (SPCC) are tools used to determine if a process is in a state of statistical control, or how much variation exists in a process. Like run charts, they are graphs of data over time.

Data
Member
Reporting
Tool
Tips for chairing meetings
Tips for chairing meetings

We all attend a variety of meetings, which when chaired and conducted well, help us to achieve our goals in a more timely way. By introducing some relatively simple changes to the way we plan, structure and manage meetings, significant productivity gains and business benefits can be achieved, regardless of company size.

Leadership
Member
Tool
IHI Actions Hierarchy for Improving Consumer Safety
IHI Actions Hierarchy for Improving Consumer Safety

Root cause analysis (RCA) is a process widely used by health professionals to learn how and why errors occurred, but there have been inconsistencies in the success of these initiatives.

Consumer
Improvement
Member
Safety
Tool
The AHRQ Plan Do Study Act Cycle Directions and Examples
The AHRQ Plan Do Study Act Cycle Directions and Examples

The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) method is a way to test a change that is implemented. Going through the prescribed four steps guides the thinking process into breaking down the task into steps and then evaluating the outcome, improving on it, and testing again.

Member
Tool
Showing 1–8 of 8 articles

Tags

Accreditation
Acute care
Advance Care Directives
Adverse events
Aged care
AI
Appropriateness
Audit
Audits
Bias
Building capabilities
Burnout
Change
Change improvement
Change management
Clinical audit
Clinical care
clinical governance framework
Clinical leadership
Clinical risk
Clinical risk management
Committees
Communication
Community
Community Care
Compassion
Complex adaptive systems
Compliance
Consent
Consumer
Consumer experience
Consumer participation
Consumer partnership
Consumer partnerships
Consumer safety
Consumers
Continuous improvement
COVID-19/Infection control
Credentialling
Culture
Data
Decision making
Decision-making
Dementia
Digital health
Disability
Disability governance
Duty of care
Effectiveness
End of life
Engagement
Evidence
Evidence-based practice
Facilitation
Frameworks
Governance reforms
Healthcare
Human factors
Improvement
Improvement science
Incident management
Incident reporting
Indigenous Health
Infection control
Innovation
Integrated Care
Job satisfaction
Leadership
Learning
Lessons from overseas
Machine learning
Making things happen
Management
Managing conflict
Managing people
Managing people and systems
Managing politics
Managing self
Measurement
Member
Mental health
Messaging
Modelling
Negative behaviours
Nursing
Obstetrics
Open Access Resources
Open Disclosure
Paediatrics
Pain
Palliative Care
Partner with consumers
Patient safety
PDSA cycle
Person-centred care
Point of care
PREMS
Preventable Harm
Preventative medicine
Primary & Community Care
Professional Conduct
Psychological Safety
Public
Quality
Quality data
Quality director
Quality governance
Quality improvement
Quality manager
Quality professional
Quality reporting
Quality system
Quality tools
Records
Reform
Regulatory reform
Reporting
reports
Research
Residential care
Resources
Restrictive practices
Risk management
Roles and responsibilities
Royal Commissions
Safety
Safety Culture
Satisfaction
Self-reflection
Sepsis
Simulation
SIRS
Social Care
Social determinants of health
Speaking Out
Standards
Strategic quality
Strategy
Systems Thinking
Teamwork
Technology
Telehealth
Template
Tool
Training
Transition
Variation
Wellbeing
What is clinical governance?
WHS
Workforce
subscribe to receive the latest updates and articles