Balancing Measures
Balancing Measures
You now have an aim statement for two key performance metrics. You are ready to plan changes to your system. But both patients and hospitals are complex systems. What if your improvement changes harm either patients or the hospital? How will you know?
Your team should consider monitoring potential areas of concern to detect any detrimental effects of your improvement changes. These additional metrics are called “balancing measures.”
For example, as balancing measures your team may decide to track the incidence of heparin induced thrombocytopenia, or bleeding episodes, or the cost of using more pharmacologic prophylaxis.
To Do (Snapshot Item):
Select one or more balancing measures. Set up regular, reliable data flow for the metric. Describe all the characteristics of your data collection strategy. |
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