Organizations for QI

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Audio and Video

Organizations for QI: Science of Improvement Whiteboard videos, Health Equity videos, IHI YouTube Channel.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Tools

Tools: IHI developed and adapted tools to help organizations accelerate improvement, as well as successful protocols, order sets, and guidelines developed by organizations and shared with IHI. Examples include a Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit, Quality Improvement Team Member Matrix Worksheet, QI Project Measures Worksheet, and Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Improvement Stories

Organizations for QI: Stories and improvement reports describing QI journeys and experiences with the intent of accelerating collective learning.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Measures

Organizations for QI: Browse through a collection of sample measures, guides, and reports to help plan a QI project.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) How to Improve

Tools: 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.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) White Papers

Organizations 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.

2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation

Guidelines/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.

Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit

Tools: 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.