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Executive Review of Improvement Projects

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Executive reviews of projects can be a powerful method for channeling leadership attention to quality initiatives. This primer helps organizational leaders to do effective project reviews that focus on results, diagnose problems with projects, help projects to succeed, and facilitate spread of good ideas across the organization.

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Developed by Jim Reinertsen, MD, Michael Pugh, Tom Nolan, PhD.

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Executive Review of Improvement Projects

Execution of Strategic Improvement Initiatives to Produce System-Level Results
This paper describes the essential elements for strategic improvement Will (the will to improve), Ideas (altneratives to the status quo), and Execution (implementing a portfolio of projects that get results).
Leadership Guide to Patient Safety
This white paper presents eight steps that are recommended for leaders to follow to achieve patient safety and high reliability in their organizations.
Seven Leadership Leverage Points for Organization-Level Improvement in Health Care (Second Edition)
As part of IHI's work of supporting and encouraging leaders of innovative health systems, this white paper presents what we believe to be some important leverage points for leaders who want to achieve dramatic, system-level performance improvement.

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