Explore the links below for an overview of QI, including tools and resources for each step in your QI journey.
Quality improvement (QI) is a systematic, formal approach to the analysis of performance and efforts to improve it. In health care, QI is a proven, effective way to improve care for patients, residents and clients, and to improve practice for staff.
The tabs below describe the steps in doing a QI project and present tools and resources to help you along the way. Remember that QI is an iterative process, and you will likely revisit some of these steps many times.
At this point, you have successfully implemented a change in your unit or department. Now you will spread the change to other units or departments.
Key activities include: