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Quality Improvement Primer

The 2007 Quality Pre-Course slides illustrate basic information about Quality Improvement (QI).  The information contained in these slides is helpful, beginning information about this crucial area of hospital medicine.  The slides were designed by hospitalists with practical, successful experience in the area of QI implementation.  The slides explain what Quality Improvement is, as well as, how it can most effectively be implemented.  Additional tools can be found in the Quality Improvement Clinical Tools section or the Quality Improvement Resource Room section.

Quality Improvement

SHM’s defines Quality Improvement in the following way:

• Focuses on processes of care
• Reduced variation by shifting entire practice
• Has the potential for radical change through changing the design of care
• Engages a team of clinicians to accomplish the goal

Quality Improvement Primer General Resources

View the 2007 Quality Pre-Course slides 

View the Quality Improvement Clinical Tools

Go to the Quality Improvement Resource Rooms