Use of Measures in EQIPP

Measures indicate whether changes are leading to quality improvement. Measurement will help your team do the following:

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