A successful Quality Improvement project will identify areas where standard of care practices in an individual’s clinical setting need improvements, implementing changes to address the recognized need and studying whether the change improves the outcomes.
Quality Improvement projects are evaluated for the following components:
- Description or aim statement is accepted as a QI project defining the problem or gap
- Adequate description of how performance or process is measured
- Description of interventions to be used and methods used to determine effect (if different than above)
- Description of outcomes and how/if this led to improvement in practice