PDSA* Cycles: Implementing Bright Futures Processes in Your Practice
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Consider the practice-wide changes needed to implement Bright Futures Guidelines and incorporate Bright Futures core tools in health supervision visits.
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PDSA Cycle: Start with a single process and rapidly test a change – by planning it, trying it, observing the results, and acting on what is learned.
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Plan
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Plan the process: What is the workflow? Who is involved? What materials (eg, screening tools, brochures) are needed and how will they be accessed?
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Do
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Pilot the process you have laid out.
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Study
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Gather feedback from staff. What worked? What did not work?Use the information gathered to help refine and improve your process.
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Act
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If needed, redesign your process and test again. Implement changes that resulted in success.
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Use successive PDSA cycles to refine and improve your process. The value of the PDSA cycle is the continuous search for improvement.
Once a process is working well, standardize improvements and begin to use them regularly.
Consider formalizing the process as an office policy/procedure document.
Choose a different process or procedure and use PDSA cycles to test and refine as above.
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*PDSA Cycle is part of the Model of Improvement developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.