Organizations for QI
Organizations for QI: Science of Improvement Whiteboard videos, Health Equity videos, IHI YouTube Channel.
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.
Organizations for QI: Stories and improvement reports describing QI journeys and experiences with the intent of accelerating collective learning.
Organizations for QI: Browse through a collection of sample measures, guides, and reports to help plan a QI project.
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.
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.
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.
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.