Authors: Maya Narayanan, Andrew A. White, Thomas H. Gallagher and Somnath Mookherjee
Medical Teacher 2018, vol. 40, No. 10, 1060-1066.
In this article, authors offer twelve tips to help physicians teach basic QI concepts in the clinical environment:
- Introduce the domains of health care quality and the centrality of the patient perspective
- Present the challenges of changing systems, culture, and behavior
- Teach process mapping
- Play follow the order
- Track patient care outcomes
- Identify potential errors in a process by using failure mode effect analysis (FMEA)
- Use an error to demonstrate the basics of root cause analysis (RCA)
- Teach assessment metrics
- Introduce driver diagrams
- Creating a SMART aim statement for a QI intervention
- Create a bedside checklist to decrease errors
- Discuss Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles
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