Quality Improvement Project:
Preparation template - Week 1
What are
you trying to
accomplish?
What am I trying to achieve?
How will you
know that a
change is an
improvement?
How am I going to measure the impact?
How will I measure the baseline?
How will I set a target?
How will I measure my progress?
What will my run chart look like?
What changes
will you make
that will
result in an
improvement?
What improvement ideas do I have?
A small number of changes are most likely to
succeed
Now start your
PDSA cycle
Answer the questions: who, what, when,
where and how?
Consider what the main steps are?
What improvements are you going to make?
What consequences may there be?
Could the change make something else
worse?
How are you measuring it?
Carry out the change
Remember to collect your data
When will you review your data to see what
progress you are making?
Remember to write down the learning from
each PDSA cycle