Reference no: EM132296118
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) methodology for performance improvement results in changed processes. It can also be used to enhance or modify a piece of a larger process. Sometimes referred to as Rapid PDSA, the results are more immediate, and the impact is successful in the short term. Once improvements are made, a more deliberate PDSA can be developed over time.
Say you are the leader of a busy Emergency Department (ED) who wants to improve the identification of sepsis patients so that treatment can be more timely and thus effective. Patients who present in the ED with symptoms of sepsis need to have laboratory tests to confirm the diagnosis. and you believe that the information between the laboratory and the ED is not being transferred either efficiently or quickly. You want to implement a Rapid PDSA to improve this situation. In developing your PDSA, make sure to include:
an explicit and detailed statement of your goal;
the team members involved;
your hypothesis for improvement;
the specific variables you want to measure;
how data will be collected and analyzed; and
how improvement will be assessed.
As part of your Rapid PDSA, explain any barriers that you need to overcome to achieve your goal and what strategies or processes you will use to overcome them