How will you know if your patient safety and quality project is meeting its objectives? Peter Drucker once said “What gets measured, gets managed.” In this course, students will learn why measurement is critical to quality improvement work. Equally important, they will learn which data sources provide the most meaningful information and tools for how and where to locate them. Finally, students will learn how to interpret data from their patient safety and quality projects to guide and modify them during implementation to maximize their chances of making a difference for patients.
Using Data & Measures to Evaluate the Success of an Improvement Project
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Measuring the Success of a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety VI)
Johns Hopkins University
Course 6 of 7 in the Specialization Patient Safety
From the lesson
From Data to Action and Iteration
In this module, learners will be exposed to how mixed-methods research, which includes integrating qualitative and quantitative data together, can be used successfully in quality improvement projects.Learners will also become familiar with how data and measures are used to evaluate the success of a quality improvement project. Two case studies will be shared to demonstrate how these concepts have been used in real-life quality improvement projects.
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Matt AustinAssistant Professor
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
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