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Better Maternal Outcomes Quality Improvement Workbooks
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| Developed as part of the Better Maternal Outcomes Rapid Improvement Network, the workbooks contain descriptions, examples, and templates for tools that teams can use to guide their quality improvement (QI) work focused on improving maternal health outcomes and equity. |
Quality Improvement Team Member Matrix Worksheet
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| Effective quality improvement (QI) teams are multidisciplinary and include different areas of expertise. Use this worksheet to help you form a QI team that represents a range of perspectives and expertise. |
QI Team Member Work Styles Inventory Worksheet
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| Quality improvement (QI) team members can use this worksheet to identify their preferred work styles. |
Quality Improvement Project Measures Worksheet
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| Use this worksheet to identify the process, outcome, and balancing measures for your quality improvement project. |
Quality Improvement Project Change Concepts Worksheet
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| A change concept is a general notion or approach to change that has been found to be useful in developing specific ideas for improvement. Use this worksheet to choose and explore relevant change concepts for a quality improvement project. |
Sustainability Planning Worksheet
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| Teams may use this worksheet to help plan for the long-term sustainability of an improvement effort. |
Aim Statement Worksheet
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| An effective aim statement is fundamental for every quality improvement project. Use this worksheet to help you write a clear, specific aim statement and complete the checklist to double-check your work. |
QI Project Management
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| This tool describes strategies to effectively manage quality improvement projects, specific ideas to try within each strategy, and offers a workspace for you to note your next steps to implement the strategy. |
QI Project Charter
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| The QI project charter provides a rationale and roadmap for the team’s improvement work that can be used to clarify thinking about what needs to be done and why. The charter helps keep the focus on a specific opportunity or problem and identifies the members of the improvement team. |
Visual Management Board
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| A visual management board is used as a key communication tool that provides at-a-glance information about current process performance, both quantitative and qualitative data, to help clinical unit staff coordinate and guide their daily work and monitor ongoing improvement projects. |
5 Whys: Finding the Root Cause
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| When a problem presents itself, ask Why again and again until you reach the root cause. |
Driver Diagram
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| A driver diagram is a visual display of a team’s theory of what “drives,” or contributes to, the achievement of a project aim. This clear picture of a team’s shared view is a useful tool for communicating to a range of stakeholders where a team is testing and working. |
Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit
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| Download these ten essential quality improvement tools to help you with your improvement projects, continuous improvement, and quality management, whether you use the Model for Improvement, Lean, or Six Sigma. |
IHI "Seven Spreadly Sins"
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| Improvement teams often make some common missteps when it comes to successfully sharing and spreading improvement ideas in their organizations. IHI's "Seven Spreadly Sins" infographic give teams practical tips for overcoming challenges that impede successful spread. |
Improvement Project Roadmap
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| Improvement teams often need a roadmap for applying the science of improvement to the project management tasks associated with their improvement efforts. This step-by-step tool provides a list of essential tasks organized by five key components in all improvement efforts that team leaders, sponsors, and others can use to guide their work. |
IHI Improvement Capability Self-Assessment Tool
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| The IHI Improvement Capability Self-Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in assessing their capability in six key areas that support improvement. |
How-to Guide: Improved Care for Patients with Congestive Heart Failure — Rural Hospitals Supplement
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| The goal of this How-to Guide, which has been tailored specifically for rural hospitals, is to significantly improve care and reduce readmissions for patients with congestive heart failure by reliably implementing the recommneded components of care. |
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Tool
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| A systematic, proactive method for evaluating a process or product to identify where and how it might fail and to assess the relative impact of different failures, in order to identify the parts of the process that are most in need of change. |
Transforming Care at the Bedside How-to Guide: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Innovation and Quality Improvement
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| This How-to Guide describes three improvement strategies for building improvement capability and engaging front-line staff in innovation on medical and surgical units; specifies practical changes that can be tested; and provides tips, tools, resources, and case studies of hospitals that have implemented many of the changes. |
Guidelines for Successful Visiting
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| Visiting another organization can be a great help to teams working on improvement. Use these guidelines to help you arrange and run a visit. |
Innovation Quality Project Summary Sheet Multi-Project Tracking Tool
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| A summary tool designed to help leaders and project managers track multiple quality improvement projects concurrently. |
Project Tracking Tool: Project Tracking Summary and Strategic Quality Goals
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| Practical templates which project managers can use to track clinical quality improvement projects and strategic goals over time. |
Business Tools to Support Clinical Project Evaluation
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| This suite of tools is designed to make information gathering and communication about clinical improvement projects straightforward. |
Glossary of Frequently Used Financial Terms
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| A glossary of frequently used financial terms that can be used to help evaluate clinical improvement projects. |
Project Initiative Tool: Clinical Manager Impact Workbook
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| This tool will help clinical managers with direct oversight of bedside care activities evaluate the expected impact on quality, resource use and needs, and potential business and financial impact of their clinical quality improvement projects. |
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