Transcript Quality Improvement Process - CCME

Quality Improvement Processes
A Rose By Any Other Name…
Basic Concept
• Quality Improvement Processes
• come in many shapes and sizes
• go by many different names
• are marketed by many different sources
• With a common goal…
• To improve and assure the safety, quality, and
cost efficiency of health care
Today’s Goal
• Our goal today is to lay the groundwork for
future training sessions regarding quality
improvement
• We will get a taste of numerous methodologies
and approached to quality improvement
• One size does not fit all
• Quality improvement is a journey taken in
baby steps – not giant leaps
Common Quality Improvement Processes
• Model for Improvement
• Rapid Cycle Quality Improvement
• PDSA
• Human Factors
• Lean Methodology
• 5S
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis
Exercise
• Let’s make the perfect peanut butter and jelly
sandwich!
Learning
• Do we all define the process in the same way?
• Did we assume steps without spelling them
out?
• Did we all address the problem in the same
way, or were there variations in our processes?
Rapid Cycle Process Improvement
• A process improvement approach to evaluate
change
• This model allows for integration of new and
existing systems.
• This model promotes small scale rapid cycle
change over short periods of time.
WHAT is the PDSA Cycle?
• A process improvement approach to evaluate
change
• This model allows for integration of new and
existing systems.
• This model promotes small scale rapid cycle
change over short periods of time.
The PDSA Cycle for Learning and
Improvement
Act
- What changes
are to be
made?
- Next cycle?
Study
- Complete the analysis
of the data
- Compare data to
predictions
- Summarize what
was learned
Plan
- Objective
- Questions and
predictions (W hy?)
- Plan to carry out
the cycle
(who, what, where, when)
Do
- Carry out the plan
- Document problems
and unexpected
observations
- Begin analysis
of the data
What Do We Mean by Rapid Cycle
Improvement?
• Let’s PLAN The Perfect Peanut Butter and Jelly
Sandwich!!!!
• What do we want to improve?
• What change should we test?
• What is our anticipated outcome?
• Theorize
What Do We Mean by Rapid Cycle
Improvement?
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Let’s DO The Perfect PB & J Sandwich!!!
Put the theory into practice
Map the new plan
Carry out the change on a small scale or pilot
basis
• Evaluate change with qualitative and
quantitative data
What Do We Mean by Rapid Cycle
Improvement?
• Let’s STUDY The Perfect PB & J Sandwich!!!
• Evaluate and determine the degree of success.
• Determine what, if any, modifications are
required.
What Do We Mean by Rapid Cycle
Improvement?
Let’s ACT ON The Perfect PB & J Sandwich!!!
Adopt
by testing on a larger scale in a new cycle
Adapt
based on lessons learned from the test
Abandon
By trying something different
The PDSA Cycle
for Learning and Improvement
Act
- What changes
are to be
made?
- Next cycle?
Study
- Complete the analysis
of the data
- Compare data to
predictions
- Summarize what
was learned
Plan
- Objective
- Questions and
predictions (W hy?)
- Plan to carry out
the cycle
(who, what, where, when)
Do
- Carry out the plan
- Document problems
and unexpected
observations
- Begin analysis
of the data
Repeated Use of the Cycle
Changes That
Result in
Improvement
A P
S D
A P
S D
Hunches
Theories
Ideas
PDSA
• Allows you to test your theory on a few
patients
• It may take several PDSA cycles and several
months to get your process manageable.
• That’s OK!
Use the PDSA Cycle for:
1. Testing or adapting a change
2. Implementing an improvement
3. Spreading the improvements to the rest of
your organization
PDSA Cycles Must Be:
• Active
• Quickly plan and make process changes
• Iterative
• Cycle after cycle
• Learning
• Take time to study effects of your actions
Human Factors
Human Factors is about how features of our
tools, tasks, and work environments
continually influence what we do and how
we do it.
In Other Words…
• Human Factors is about how the design of
things impacts how well we do any task.
• Design of our workplace
• Design of the tools we use
• Design of processes (how we do things
around here)
Is This the Same Old Thing?
• No!
• Human Factors is complementary to what you are
already doing to improve health care
• Human Factors will make your improvement efforts
more efficient and effective
• There is a Human Factors concept behind every
successful improvement effort
Talk About Human Factors!!!
Each line represents the RN’s movement from one location to another.
For example, RN moves between patients 14A and 14B twice.
Human Factors and the Model for Improvement
What are we trying to accomplish?
Human factors can
help answer this
question!
How do we know that a change is an
improvement?
What changes can we make that result in
an improvement?
Act
Plan
Study
Do
Lean Methodology
• It’s all about:
• Waste and Value
• Always challenging processes to
• Produce better outcomes for customers
• Create more value with less wasted time,
effort, and resources
• Speed delivery while reducing cost
• Lay less burden on the people doing the
work.
5S
• 5S is a philosophy and a way of organizing and
managing the workspace.
• The key impacts of 5S is upon workplace morale and
efficiency.
• By ensuring everything has a place and everything is
in its place then time is not wasted looking for things
and it can be made immediately obvious when
something is missing.
• The real power of this methodology is in deciding what
should be kept and where and how it should be stored
5S
Seiri
Sort
Seiton
Set In Order
Seiso
Shine
Seiketsu
Shitsuke
Standards
Sustain
Based on Japanese words that begin with ‘S’, the 5S Philosophy focuses on
effective work place organization and standardized work procedures.
5S simplifies your work environment, reduces waste and non-value activity while
improving quality efficiency
and safety.
Failure Mode Analysis
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
is a systematic, proactive method for
evaluating a process to identify where and
how it might fail, and to assess the relative
impact of different failures in order to
identify the parts of the process that are most
in need of change.
Failure Mode Analysis
Continued
FMEA includes review of the following:
Steps in the process
• Failure modes (What could go wrong?)
• Failure causes (Why would the failure happen?)
• Failure effects (What would be the consequences of
each failure?)
Root Cause Analysis
• A way of looking at unexpected events and
outcomes to determine all of the underlying
causes of the event and recommend changes
that are likely to improve them.
RCA Tools
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The 5 Whys?
Appreciation
Drill Downs
Cause and Effect Diagrams (Fishbone
Diagrams)
Success
“There are no secrets to success. It is the
result of preparation, hard work, and
learning from failure.”
General Colin L. Powell
Quality Improvement
is a Process, not an Event
Anonymous