Integrating Quality: Linking Clinical and Educational Excellence at UCDHS

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Integrating Quality Linking Clinical and
Educational Excellence at UCDHS

• Project Title
• ______________________________________________

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Name of Team_______________

• Unit/department where improvement work was done
• Team member names
• (May want to include a team picture)

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Description of the situation/problem

• What was the problem that you set out to tackle?
• How was the problem identified?
• How was it affecting patient care?

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Assessment of Problem
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Project Aim

• What is the intent of the project?
• What is the intended end result?
• Write your specific, measurable aim

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How Do We Work?

• List daily routines
• Draw a flow chart and describe the work process
  that affects patients experiences

Decision
Action
Event
Start
Action
Go
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Strategy for Change

• How did you implement the proposed change?
• Describe how learners were involved?
• How did you disseminate results of analysis and
  plans for change to groups involved with or
  affected by change?
• What was the timetable for change?

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Test_______________________

• Describe your 1st test of change
• Describe what you were focusing on and how you
  approached it

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Test_______________________

• Describe your 2nd test of change
• Describe what you were focusing on and how you
  approached it

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(Add additional slides as needed to describe
further tests of change)
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Measurement of Improvement

• How far did these changes resolve the problem
  that triggered your work?
• How did this improve patient care?
• Is your data beginning to tell a story?
• Can you draw any conclusions from the results to
  date?
• How is the change sustainable?
• What barriers to change did you encounter?

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Use data from your measures to graphically
display your efforts using control charts or
annotated run charts
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Highlights of Activities

• What were your teams greatest successes?
• Which activities do you think have a high value?
• Did you identify successful strategies to address
  your teams aim?

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Lessons Learned

• What did you learn from the process?
• What worked?
• What did not work?
• What would you do differently next time?

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Conclusion

• What is the main message you would like to convey
  to others?

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Next Steps

• Describe your next steps