Continuous Improvement Strategies

Chapter SixA Guide to Implementing and Monitoring Quality Improvement Initiatives

6.1 A Brief Introduction

In this chapter, I will touch on some general strategies that office-level health-care leaders and others can use to help them successfully implement and monitor quality improvement (QI) initiatives. Like a typical planning-based guide, I will focus on each of the key stages in the implementation process. However, I do not intend to delve into the nuanced aspects that are part and parcel of many continuous improvement (CI) discussions. For one thing, numerous authors have already written extensively on these subjects and have produced a plethora of charts, graphs, tables, and the like. Perhaps more importantly, if I created a detailed, ...