Library: Library home page: Quality Improvement

Getting Started

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School
IHI has educational videos to get you started. The Open School is FREE to residents. Select ENROLL to create an account. Make sure you put down that you are a student!!
-Browse Catalog, search for the course you want, need. You can choose specific, or use QI or GME to look for potential ones. See below for some recommendations.
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Recommendations:
QI 101: Introduction to Healthcare Improvement
QI 102: How to Improve with the Model of Improvement
QI 103: Testing & Measuring Changes with a PDSA Cycle

How to Select A Quality Improvement Project

VIdeo: Model for Improvement Clip 1
An overview of how to create a model for improvement
Video: Model for Improvement Clip 2
Continuation of explaining the Model for Improvement
How To Improve Healthcare
Overview of the Model for Improvement
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Describes how to select an AIM and implement a PDSA cycle

Publishing a QI project: Guidelines and Checklist

SQUIRE-EDU (Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence in Education): Publication Guidelines for Educational Improvement
Web page - Rubric developed my journal editors of how to structure manuscript and information to include if seeking publication.
Explanation and Elaboration of SQUIRE 2.0 Guidelines
Further explanation, with examples, of what to include in the manuscript
How to Write Up Your Quality Improvement Initiatives for Publication
Step by step guide of how to write up the manuscript.

Example of published work: Waterhouse et al.
An example of a published QI project

QI Project Ideas

BMSH Key Performance Indicators
BSMH has many quality initiatives (KPIs) ongoing. Your QI project can support the larger ministry goals.
Clinical Learning Environment (CLER) ACGME
ACGME sets different goals that make for great resident QI projects.
Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center
Publicly funded organization who's mission to improve access to quality healthcare to all Ohioans. Implements QI projects and shares how-to-guides
IHI Improvement Areas
Topics for improvement and resources and tools to create projects.

Worksheets and Guides

QI Essential Toolkit
Descriptions and instructions for various tools used in QI, developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Developing an AIM statement
Worksheet to walk you through developing an AIM statement and plan a project
QI Project Worksheet & Planning Tool
Guide on how to develop a project and a worksheet to plan and monitor the project.

Plan Do Study Act

Video: Plan Do Study Act
Video from BSMH Reliability team briefly describing the PDSA cycle

PDSA Development Guide
Describes what should go in to each section. Helps you develop a project.

BSMH PDSA Worksheet
A worksheet to plan and track your project
Video: Carrying out a PDSA Cycle
Video walking through an example of a PDSA cycle.

Cause & Effect (FIshbone)

Video: How to Create a Cause & Effect Diagram
Video from IHI on how to complete a Cause & Effect Diagram

Cause & Effect Planning
Walks you through the steps of completing a fishbone diagram.

Cause & Effect (Fishbone) Diagram Template
Template & examples of a fishbone diagram.

Additional Reading on How to Do a QI Project

Quality Improvement Feature Series Article 1: Introduction to Quality Improvement
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2018, Pages 6–10, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/pix061
Quality Improvement Feature Series Article 2: Displaying and Analyzing Quality Improvement Data
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2018, Pages 100–103, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/pix077
Quality Improvement Feature Series Article 3: Writing and Reviewing Quality Improvement Manuscripts
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 188–190, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/pix078
LEAN/ A3 Self-guided Curriculum
Additional resources created by BSMH Reliability Office

Resources to Learn History & Background of Quality Improvement in Healthcare

To Err Is Human Building a Safer Health System (2000)
Institute of Medicine. 2000. To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/9728
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To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequence--but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agenda--with state and local implications--for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system.
AHRQ Quality Improvement
Quality improvement (QI) is essential to achieving the triple aim of improving the health of the population, enhancing patient experiences and outcomes, and reducing the per capita cost of care, and to improving provider experience.
Academy Health
AcademyHealth improves health and health care for all by advancing evidence to inform policy and practice.
Turn the Lights On, IHI Podcast
A podcast that aims to improve healthcare worldwide by shedding light on healthcare issues through thought-provoking conversations.
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By demystifying healthcare problems, we hope to activate both the public and healthcare professionals to help us accelerate changes leading to health and healthcare improvements worldwide. Our discussions cover various topics such as healthcare delivery, health equity, quality, and social justice. The podcast features solutions from around the world and encourages listeners to take action

Mercy Health Youngstown Medical LibraryJeghers Medical Index

Library home page

Getting Started

Publishing a QI project: Guidelines and Checklist

QI Project Ideas

Worksheets and Guides

Plan Do Study Act

Cause & Effect (FIshbone)

Additional Reading on How to Do a QI Project

Resources to Learn History & Background of Quality Improvement in Healthcare

Mercy Health Youngstown Medical Library
Jeghers Medical Index