Use of Measures in EQIPP

Measuring the quality of health care and using those measurements to promote improvements will help your team do the following:

• Obtain a baseline to measure your current level of care and create a starting point for improvement.
• Identify gaps in practice and opportunities for improvement.
• Select 1 or more gaps and create improvement project(s) to clarify the improvement idea(s) to be tested.
• Test ideas quickly, on a small scale, through Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to determine if changes lead to improvement.
• Collect and analyze follow-up data to measure the results of the test.
• Determine how to sustain successful changes and how to systematically integrate them into the culture, processes, and workflow of your practice.
• Create additional improvement projects for the same or other key activities and repeat PDSA cycles until you reach the maximum potential for your practice.