Quality Improvement Basics
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Course Description
The Quality Improvement Basics course (QI 101) is comprised of 8 short lessons to introduce evidence-based quality improvement principles and practices that have achieved:
- better access to health system services
- improved experience for patients, families, and providers
- improved population health at a reasonable cost for the health care system.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the Model for Improvement and how it can help teams accelerate the adoption of proven and effective changes in health care.
- Write an effective aim statement.
- Define process measures, outcome measures, and balancing measures.
- Develop small tests of change using the PDSA cycle.
- Use a number of tools to measure outcomes.
- Analyze results, based on data collected and displayed on run charts, storyboards, etc.
Target Audience
- Health professionals from many disciplines such as physicians, specialists, nurse practitioners, nurses, medical office assistants, pharmacists, health authority managers or administrators, case managers, lab technicians and mental health workers amongst others.
- Members of health authority regional support teams working with Practice Support Program (PSP) clinical teams, Integrated Health Networks (IHNs), Divisions, and other improvement efforts across the province of British Columbia.
- Anyone who wants to learn the basics about improvement methodologies to support their efforts of change and improvement.