Improvement Science in Action
The Improvement Leaders’ Programme is our in-depth QI training course for people leading or part of QI project teams. In advance of workshop training days we recommend all delegates read the papers in this collection.
The programme teaches QI project teams to refine their aims, use Driver Diagrams to understand their system and prioritise change ideas, measure data for improvement, test changes using Plan Do Study Act (PDSA), and introduces many other concepts and tools that teams can use throughout the project’s lifecycle.
Helping Leaders Blink Correctly – Part 1
This article was written by Robert Lloyd, PhD, IHI. This interesting article talks about split second decisions to do wiht patient safety implications.
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Helping Leaders Blink Correctly: Part II
This article talks about understanding variation in data can help leaders make appropriate decisions.
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Improvement Tip: ‘Quality’ is Not a Department
This fascinating article was written by Robert Lloyd, Executive Director of Performance Improvement at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, offers some tips for improving quality within your organization.
This article quotes: If your hospital, medical practice, or health system has a Quality Improvement Department, congratulations. If the general assumption is that this is the place where quality improvement resides and is performed, however, you’ve got work to do. Quality is not a program or a project; it isn’t the responsibility of one individual or even those assigned to the Quality Department.
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A Matter of Time
Click on this poster to learn about a QI project presented at our Annual QI Conference, March 2016
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Circling Back
This article was written by Ronald D. Moen and Clifford L. Norman and talks about clearing up myths about the Deming Cycle and seeing how it keeps evolving.
In the 1950s, W. Edwards Deming brought the scientific method to industry. Later, the method was called the plan-do -study-act (PDSA) cycle.This article covers how Deming’s PDSA cycle evolved, how Deming created the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle and if PDCA and PDSA are related.
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