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