Organizations for QI
Organizations for QI: Stories and improvement reports describing QI journeys and experiences with the intent of accelerating collective learning.
Read MoreOrganizations for QI: Browse through a collection of sample measures, guides, and reports to help plan a QI project.
Read MoreTools: How to Improve: Model for Improvement (Associates in Process Improvement); learn about the model and testing changes on a small scale using Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA cycles). Covers how to form your team, set aims, establish measures, implement change, and more.
Read MoreOrganizations for QI: Ideas and findings that represent innovative work by organizations affiliated with IHI. Learn about the problems IHI is working to address and methods being developed to make breakthrough improvements.
Read MoreJournal Articles: Understanding the quality of atrial fibrillation (AF) care delivery is critically important for identifying care gaps, targeting improvement efforts, and guiding resource allocation. In this effort, several professional societies have defined a series of AF quality indicators (QIs) that can be used to monitor adherence to evidence-based processes and AF-related outcomes. In Canada, this effort has been led by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS). On behalf of the CCS AF QI Working Group, in this issue of Heart Rhythm Journal, we summarize our process for defining and measuring AF QIs, present 2 recent publications reporting national data on key AF Qis, and discuss challenges encountered and future directions.
Read MoreGuidelines/Clinical Documents: This best practices clinical document is a 2017 update to the 2012 consensus statement on catheter and surgical AF ablation, to reflect the many advances in tools, techniques and outcomes of AF ablation. The document is a collaborative effort with HRS, EHRA, ECAS, APHRS, and SOLAECE.
Read MoreTools: IHI’s QI Essentials Toolkit includes the tools and templates you need to launch a successful quality improvement project and manage performance improvement. Each of the ten tools can be used with the Model for Improvement, Lean, or Six Sigma, and includes a short description, instructions, an example, and a blank template.
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