Testing and Measuring Changes
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Learn to establish, track measures, & analyze data for improvement with PDSA cycles in quality improvement projects. Understand planning for data collection, defining measures, and interpreting outcomes. Helpful for healthcare professionals and quality improvement teams.
Testing and Measuring Changes
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Testing and Measuring Changes Review of QI 103: Testing and Measuring Changes with PDSA Cycles
Lecture Objectives • Describe how to establish and track measures of improvement during the “plan” and “do” phase of PDSA. • Explain how to learn from data during the “study” phase of PDSA. • Explain how to increase the size and scope of subsequent test cycles based on what you’re learning during the “act” phase of PDSA.
Lecture Outline • Planning for data collection • Operational definitions • Key questions • Testing changes and collecting data • Sampling • Studying data for improvement • Run charts • Building your degree of belief over time • Linking tests of change
Defining Measures: Three Types Use unambiguous operational definitions
Defining Measures: Two Levels • Level 1: Project-level measures • Representing overall goals and assumptions • Documented on the Project Charter • Level 2: PDSA-level measures • Representing the specific changes you are testing • Documented on the PDSA worksheet
Identify the type and level of each measure in this QI project: • Rate of occurrence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) per 1,000 patient days • Percent of patient encounters in compliance with hand hygiene procedure • Number of hand sanitizer stations available
Identify the type and level of each measure in this QI project: • Your overall goal is to reduce rates of MRSA infection (project-level outcome measure) • Your change is to improve hand hygiene (project-level process measure and PDSA-level outcome measure) • Your first test is to try to improve hand hygiene by increasing the availability of hand sanitizer (PDSA-levelprocess measure)
How would you measure this outcome? • Access to health care
How would you measure this outcome? • There are many waysto measure “access” • Number of days to third next available appointment • Number of minutes from time of appointment to time to see clinician • Percent of “good” or “very good” answers on relevant patient satisfaction survey questions • Average daily clinician hours available for appointments
Which of these is a complete operational definition? • Rate of occurrence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) per 1,000 patient days • Percent of patient encounters in compliance with hand hygiene procedure • Number of hand sanitizer stations available
Which of these is a complete operational definition? • Rate of occurrence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) per 1,000 patient days • How do you define the occurrence of MRSA? What calculation will you use? • Percentage of patient encounters in compliance with hand hygiene procedure • How do you define a “patient encounter”? How will you calculate the percentage? • Number of hand sanitizer stations available • What area are you including in the count of sanitizer stations? How do you define “available” — what if the dispenser is empty?
Key Questions for Measurement • What is all the data you need to collect? (e.g., for a percent, you need both the numerator and the denominator) • Who is responsible for collecting the data? • How often will the data be collected? • How will the data be collected? • Make measurement as simple as possible!
Simplify Through Sampling • Simple random sampling • Proportional stratified random sampling • Judgment sampling
Planning for Data Collection: Review • Establish: What do you want to learn about and improve? • Determine: What measures will be most helpful for this purpose? • Define: For each measure, what is the operational definition? • Designate: who, what, when, where, how
Building Degree of Belief Iterative test cycles; can be concurrent Increase size: 5X rule Broaden scope: Test in many different conditions
Video https://youtu.be/Q4d7T_aBUPo http://www.ihi.org/education/IHIOpenSchool/resources/Pages/Activities/Provost-WhyShouldYouStartTestingChangesASAP.aspx
Discussion • Discuss the risks of starting a test of change earlier versus later. Which scenario do you think carries greater risk? • Provost implies that it’s important to see improvement quickly. Why do you think that is? • What do you think of the provocation “what can you do by next Tuesday?” Is it helpful? • Can you think of something to test by next Tuesday? http://www.ihi.org/education/IHIOpenSchool/resources/Documents/Facilitator_Provost-WhyShouldYouStartTestingChangesASAP.pdf
Exercise • Follow the instructions at http://www.ihi.org/education/IHIOpenSchool/resources/Documents/QI103_exercise.pdf • Form a team with at least one other person and pick a problem at your school or in your community to work on. The problem should lend itself to measurement. • Use the data collection planning checklist to help you create a data collection plan for the improvement project. Write down the answer for each question for a complete family of measures.