Creating Quality Improvement (QI) Teams and Plans in Primary Care

Resource: Creating Quality Improvement Teams and QI Plans (PDF, 1.1 MB, 25, including 10 pages of planning templates pages)

Part of an AHRQ curriculum used to train practice facilitators, this resource explains the fundamentals of building and working with quality improvement (QI) teams in primary care practices. In alignment with Key Driver 2: Implement a data-driven quality improvement process to integrate evidence into practice procedures, it discusses who should be included on a QI team (including patient and family representation), how to create a QI plan, and how Key Drivers can help with the QI process. It also includes a blank Key Driver template and QI Plan Generator that practices can use to design their own quality improvement project. Although addressed to practice facilitators, this resource contains valuable information for practices working to improve quality on their own as well.

Institution of origin: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Author(s): Knox L, Brach C

Acknowledgements: This document is part of AHRQ’s Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum, available at: https://pcmh.ahrq.gov/page/primary-care-practice-facilitation-curriculum

Publication date: September 2015

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