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Many quality improvement methods can be applied to healthcare, 3 of which include Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA), Lean, and Six Sigma. Each method has a unique goal-oriented outcome that has been applied to healthcare to streamline and optimize processes.
Health care organizations can take advantage of established principles and approaches to quality improvement, which are already familiar to the many providers involved in clinical quality improvement (QI).
This chapter will discuss strategies and tools for quality improvement—including failure modes and effects analysis, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Six Sigma, Lean, and root-cause analysis—that have been used to improve the quality and safety of health care.
Quality improvement is the framework used to systematically improve care. Quality improvement seeks to standardize processes and structure to reduce variation, achieve predictable results, and improve outcomes for patients, healthcare systems, and organizations.
He outlined three processes any organisation should have in place: ‘Quality Planning’ (preparing to meet quality goals, i.e., designing services/products to meet patients’ needs), ‘Quality Control’ (meeting quality goals, i.e., collecting data to measure performance, much akin to clinical audit), and ‘Quality Improvement ...
Thinking of quality improvement (QI) as a principle-based approach to change provides greater clarity about (a) the contribution QI offers to staff and patients, (b) how to differentiate it from other approaches, (c) the benefits of using QI together with other change approaches.
Today, many efforts around patient outcomes and safety, care coordination, efficiency, and cost-cutting are underway and care redesign initiatives are being evaluated to guide future healthcare quality improvements. The following tips may aid you in your healthcare improvement efforts.
The Healthcare Quality Book provides a framework, methodology, and practical approaches to assist healthcare professionals in championing improvement efforts. The book is divided into three sections that cover the fundamentals of healthcare quality, critical quality topics, and key strategies for effectively leading quality.
This paper provides strategies for practice facilitators and the organizations that train and deploy them, based on the experiences of experts in the field. and deploy them for the challenging task of encouraging primary care practices to undertake QI activities.
Quality improvement uses a deliberate approach to analyzing performance and a systematic method to improve it. The IDPH has adopted the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) quality improvement methodology using Kaizen events and the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) (image of cycle found below) as the framework in implementing continuous quality improvement initiatives.