Life Qi

JANUARY 18, 2023

In its ‘Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit’ the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) describes driver diagrams as ‘a roadmap for achieving the overall project aim.’ Driver diagrams can be used to plan improvement project activities and represent a key element of QI projects.

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Life Qi

AUGUST 10, 2021

The NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub’s document 'The spread and sustainability of Quality Improvement in Healthcare,' states that ‘Across the UK, a third of healthcare improvement projects never spread beyond their particular unit, a further third are embedded within their own unit and spread across an organisation, and a final third are spread (..)

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Life Qi

JANUARY 18, 2023

Described by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) as a ‘visual display of a team’s theory of what drives or contributes to, the achievement of a project aim,’ driver diagrams can be a really useful way to visualise what your project is trying to achieve and how you are going to progress your Quality Improvement (QI) project.

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Life Qi

JUNE 24, 2022

What is the Model for Improvement? The model for improvement (or MFI) is one of the most popular Quality Improvement (QI) models in use in healthcare settings today.

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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.

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NCQA

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Guide also includes a series of quality improvement worksheets and templates that walk quality champions through key steps, notably: The plan-do-study-act process. Assessments to help quality leaders expand their plans and measure progress. How will we know that a change is an improvement?

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Life Qi

AUGUST 18, 2021

We’ve talked about scale up and spread and how to sustain quality improvement (QI) across your organisation. Now we’re going to focus on how exactly you create and achieve your frameworks for scale-up and spread.

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Life Qi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In this article, we’re going to be looking at what the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has identified as ‘7 Spreadly Sins’ when spreading improvement – i.e. what not to do when you are trying to spread your healthcare improvement project!

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement Public Health : The science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. 39 These regulations also do not apply in the context of data collection as part of quality improvement in health care.

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