Measuring the Success of a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety VI)

About this course

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.

What you will learn

• Describe why measurement is important to quality improvement work.
• Locate external sources of quality and safety measures and associated performance data.
• Identify those data that are useful for monitoring and evaluating quality improvement projects.