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POCQI: Point of Care Quality Improvement
Learner Manual
Four simple steps to practice quality improvement at health facility level
Improving the Quality of Care for Mothers and Newborns in Health Facilities
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WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data
World Health Organization, Regional Offi ce for South-East Asia.
Improving the quality of hospital care for mothers and newborns: learner manual.
1. Hospitals. 2. Maternal Health. 3. Infant, Newborn
ISBN 978-92-9022-547-8 (NLM classifi cation: WX 18)
World Health Organization 2017
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The Point of Care Quality Improvement package for improving the quality of care for mothers and newborns in health facilities has been prepared jointly by the South East Asia Regional Offi ce of World Health Organization (WHO-SEARO), WHO Collaborating Center for Newborn, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi and the United States Agency of International Development – Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems Project (USAID ASSIST).
The main contribution to developing the package is from Ashok Deorari, Rajesh Mehta, Nigel Livesley and assistance is sincerely acknowledged from: Neena Raina (WHO-SEARO), Anu Sachdeva and Meena Joshi, Aparna Sharma, Seema Singhal, Parijat Chandra (AIIMS, New Delhi) and Praveen K. Sharma, Ankur Sooden, Sonali Vaid (URC1 ).
Collaboration from partner agencies UNICEF-ROSA and EAPRO, UNFPA-APRO and USAID in promoting quality of care in the Region and development of this package is greatly appreciated.
Of the many approaches to QI, resource materials from the following helped to conceptualize the need to create a simplifi ed tool for learning the basics of QI at the point of care in health facilities. These include:
� USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project. Bethesda, MD: University Research Co., LLC (URC): (1) Massoud MR, Ottosson A, Nsubuga-Nyombi T, Karamagi E, Stern A, Ismail A, Boguslavsky V, Livesley N, Faramand T, Holtemeyer J. 2016. Improving Health Care. Training Participant Guide; (2) Massoud MR, Ottosson A, Nsubuga-Nyombi T, Karamagi-Nkolo E, Stern A, Ismail A.2015. Improving Health Care. Case Study: Nutrition Assessment Counseling and Support (NACS); (3) Singh R, Singh M, Jha R, Sharma P, Livesley N. 2016. Improving Quality in Healthcare: A practical guide for health care providers. Technical Report. Published by the USAID ASSIST Project.
� Bose C, Hermida J. Eds. 2016. Improving care of mothers and babies: a guide for improvement teams. 2016. American Academy of Pediatrics and University Research Co., LLC. http://internationalresources.aap.org/Resource/ShowFile?documentName=Improving%20Care%20of%20Mothers%20and%20Babies_Asia%20Version_Eng.%202016.pdf
� Materials developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (http://www.ihi.org/Pages/default.aspx)
� Evidence based practice for improving quality (http://www.epiq.ca)
The POCQI package has been fi eld tested in several settings in the countries of the Region, India (New Delhi, Kangra and Kolkata), Bhutan, Bangladesh and Maldives. The opportunity to fi eld test the package and inputs received from participants and facilitators are gratefully acknowledged.
Acknowledgement
1Nigel Livesley, Praveen K. Sharma, Ankur Sooden, and Sonali Vaid work for University Research Co., LLC (URC) under the USAID ASSIST Project, which is funded by the American people through USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, Offi ce of Health Systems. The project is managed by URC under the terms of Cooperative Agreement Number AID-OAA-A-12-00101. URC's global partners for USAID ASSIST include: EnCompass LLC; FHI 360; Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; HEALTHQUAL International; Initiatives Inc.; Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs; and WI-HER, LLC.
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Section 1. Participant Handout
Section 2. Participant Slide Notes
Section 3. QI Project Template and Review Sheet
Section 4. Plan of action
Section 5. Successful case studies on QI
Learner Manual
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Section 1: Participant Handout ...................................................................................1
Case Scenario Part 1 .......................................................................................................................... 2
Step 1: Identifying the Problem, Forming a Team and Writing an Aim Statement ............................. 4
Step 1: Learning objectives ................................................................................................................ 4
Discussion 1.1: Identifying the problem ............................................................................................ 4
Case Scenario Part 2 .......................................................................................................................... 5
Discussion 1.2: Prioritizing the problems ........................................................................................... 5
Discussion 1.3: Forming a team ......................................................................................................... 6
Discussion 1.4: Writing an aim statement .......................................................................................... 6
Step 2: Analysing the Problem and Measuring Quality of Care ......................................................... 8
Step 2: Learning objectives ................................................................................................................ 8
Case Scenario Part 3 .......................................................................................................................... 8
Discussion 2.1: Analysing a fl owchart ................................................................................................ 9
Discussion 2.2 Analysing a fi shbone diagram ................................................................................... 10
Case Scenario Part 4 ........................................................................................................................ 10
Discussion 2.3: Developing indicators ............................................................................................. 10
Case Scenario Part 5 ........................................................................................................................ 11
Discussion 2.4 Plotting data over time ............................................................................................. 11
Step 3: Developing and Testing Changes ......................................................................................... 13
Step 3: Learning objectives .............................................................................................................. 13
Section A: Maternal Health Scenario ............................................................................................ 13
Case Scenario Part 6 ........................................................................................................................ 13
Discussion 3.1: Improving uterotonic administration-change ideas.................................................. 13
Case Scenario Part 7 ........................................................................................................................ 13
Discussion 3.2: Testing changes to see if they are practical ............................................................... 14
Case Scenario Part 8 ........................................................................................................................ 15
Discussion 3.3: What to do as you learn from PDSA cycle .............................................................. 15
Case Scenario Part 9 ........................................................................................................................ 16
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Discussion 3.4: Testing changes ....................................................................................................... 16
Section B: Newborn Health Scenario ........................................................................................... 17
Section 2: Newborn Health Scenario ............................................................................................... 17
Case Scenario Part 6 ........................................................................................................................ 17
Discussion 3.1: Developing changes ................................................................................................ 17
Case Scenario Part 7 ........................................................................................................................ 18
Discussion 3.2: Testing changes to see if they are practical ............................................................... 19
Case Scenario Part 8 ........................................................................................................................ 19
Discussion 3.3: What to do as you learn from PDSA cycle .............................................................. 20
Case Scenario Part 9 ........................................................................................................................ 20
Discussion 3.4: Testing changes ....................................................................................................... 20
Case Scenario Summary .................................................................................................................. 21
Step 4 – Sustaining Improvement .................................................................................................... 24
Step 4: Learning objectives .............................................................................................................. 24
Section 2: Participant Slide Notes .............................................................................25
Section 3: QI Project Template & Review Sheet .......................................................57
Quality Improvement Project Review Sheet ..................................................................................... 62
Section 4: Plan of Action ...........................................................................................65
Plan of action for the team .............................................................................................................. 66
Knowledge Assessment .................................................................................................................... 67
Section 5: Successful case studies on QI ....................................................................75
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Figures:
Figure 1: Hospital Birth Register .......................................................................................................... 3
Figure 2: Newborn Care Flowchart ...................................................................................................... 8
Figure 3: Maternal Care Flowchart ....................................................................................................... 9
Figure 4: Maternal Care Fishbone ...................................................................................................... 10
Figure 5: Maternal Health Data ......................................................................................................... 12
Figure 6: Percentage of women receiving a uterotonic within one minute and women ....................... 23 with post-partum hemorrhage
Figure 7: Annotations show the relationship between various PDSA cycles and ................................ 24 improvement in the indicator
Figure 8: Percentage of babies with hypothermia and percentage of babies receiving ......................... 24 skin-to-skin care
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POCQI LEARNER MANUAL
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Participant HandoutSECTION 1
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You work at a district hospital in which around 2000 babies are born annually.
A single nurse at a time works in the labour room where she provides routine delivery care, basic emergency obstetric care and postnatal care for mothers and babies.
A nurse in-charge oversees operations, including ordering supplies.
There is also a pharmacist on site.
A doctor manages the labour ward and is available for emergencies but because they have no blood bank and limited facilities, most emergencies are referred.
Mothers and babies are kept together after birth and are typically discharged after 24-48 hours.
The staff work hard but they think that the care they provide is not as good as it could be.
They decide to look at the data in their labour room and newborn register to identify some problems that they can fi x.
The registers have information about both processes of care and outcomes
Processes are activities that health workers carry out and outcomes are the end result of those activities.
The team looks at how well they are carrying out important processes of care and if they are getting the outcomes that they want for their patients.
Information on care at birth is collected from the records as shown in the Hospital Birth Register (Figure 1).
Case Scenario Part 1
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Identifying the problem, forming a team and writing an aim statement
STEP: 1
Step 1: Learning objectives:1) How to review data to identify problems
2) How to prioritize which problem to work on
3) How to form a team to work on that problem
4) How to write a clear aim statement
Discussion 1: Identifying the problem
What are the different “processes of care” and “outcomes of care” listed in the Hospital Birth Register (Figure 1)?
Processes of care Outcomes of care
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Calculate the percent performance of three processes of care
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Calculate the percent performance of two outcomes of care
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The staff in the facility identify a number of problems with the care that they are providing.
They realize that they are not giving all women a uterotonic (Inj Oxytocin) within one minute and that women are suffering from post-partum hemorrhage (PPH).
They also realize that 20% of babies are born at low weight, that many are not dried quickly and are having their cord clamped early and that many are cold at one hour after delivery. (Hypothermia is temperature < 36.5C)
They decide that they cannot fi x everything at once so decide to prioritize one or two projects to work on. They ask for advice on fi lling in a prioritization matrix.
Discussion 1.2: Prioritizing the problemsFill out the prioritization matrix. Based on your experience in your facility, assign points from to 1 to 5 for each factor (process or outcome):
� Important to patients – how important is each aspect of care for better patient outcomes? 1 is not important (lowest score), 5 is vitally important (highest score).
� Affordable in terms of time and resources – how easy do you think it will be to fi x this problem? 1 is not affordable (it will take a lot of time or resources), 5 is very affordable.
� Easy to measure – how easy will it be to measure the problem you are trying to fi x? 1 is very diffi cult, 5 is very easy.
� Under the control of team members – will people in the unit be able to fi x this themselves? 1 is not at all under the control of the team members, 5 is entirely under the control of the team members.
Case Scenario Part 2
Possible aim Important Affordable Easy to Under Total to patient in terms of measure control of score outcomes time and team (1-5) resources members (1-5) (1-5) (1-5) (4-20)
Uterotonic given within 1 min
Management of PPH
Immediate drying of the body
Delayed cord clamping
Decrease in low temperature at1 hr <36.5 degree C
Decrease in low birth weight<2500 grams
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Choose the gap in quality that you think the team should improve:
Discussion 1.3: Forming a TeamDiscuss how you would organize a team to improve care of mothers and babies in this facility. Determine how many people should be on the team, and who the members might be. Consider the roles of members on the team. Choose and describe an ideal team leader.
Team members Roles
Team leader Characteristics of a good team leader?
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Discussion 1.4: Writing an aim statement
SMART stands for: Specifi c, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timely
Aim statements answer the questions what, who, how much and by when.
� “What” describes the outcome or process that needs improvement
� “Who” describes the patient group that will be affected
� “How much” describes the change from baseline to the desired result
� “By when” describes by when you plan to achieve your desired goal
The aim statement should follow the structure:
We aim to (what do you want to achieve) in (which patient group) from (what is the current performance) to (what is the desired level of performance) by (how long).
Write an aim statement related to the quality gap that you think is most important.
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Analysing the problem and measuring quality of care
STEP: 2
Step 2: Learning objectives:1) Tools for understanding processes and systems and how to use them
2) How using these tools can help identify possible solutions to reach your aim
3) How to choose indicators for process and outcome
4) How to use these indicators to track progress of improvement
Case Scenario Part 3:The team decides that they want to fi x two problems and develop two aim statements.
� Neonatal health:
� We will reduce the percentage of newborns with low temperature (<36.5°C) at one hour after delivery from 50% to 10% within 6 weeks.
� Maternal health:
� We will increase the percentage of women receiving a uterotonic within one minute after vaginal delivery from 50% to 100% within 4 weeks.
Analysis - Reducing neonatal hypothermia:The team is not sure why so many babies are getting cold so they decide to use a process fl owchart to describe all actions to care for the babies and see if they can identify what is making the babies cold.
Figure 2: Newborn Care Flowchart
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Discussion 2.1: Analysing a fl owchartBased on the Newborn Care Flowchart (Figure 2), what do you think could be some of the problems contributing to babies getting cold?
Figure 3: Maternal Care Flowchart
Analysis - Improving uterotonic administration:The team also develops a process fl owchart for maternal care at the time of delivery (Figure 3) and decides to focus on ensuring that all women receive auterotonic within one minute of delivery to prevent post-partum hemorrhage. They then use a fi shbone diagram to identify problems with providing a uterotonic in the fi rst minute after delivery.
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Figure 4: Maternal Care Fishbone
Discussion 2.2: Analysing a fi shbone diagramBased on the Maternal Fishbone Diagram (Figure 4) what do you think could be some of the problems contributing to women not receiving a uterotonic after delivery?
Case Scenario Part 4:The team to discuss what indicators they will use to measure their progress.
Discussion 2.3: Developing indicatorsWhat would you advise about the indicators to monitor progress?
Write an outcome measure for the project to reduce neonatal hypothermia and one process and one outcome measure for the project to improve administration of a uterotonic in the fi rst minute after delivery.
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Reducing neonatal hypothermia:
Outcome measure:
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Improving uterotonic administration:
Process measure:
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Person responsible
How frequently
Outcome measure:
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Denominator
Data source
Person responsible
How frequently
Case Scenario Part 5:The team looks at the data on the percentage of women who received a uterotonic within one minute of delivery and the percentage of women who had a post-partum hemorrhage each month for the past 16 weeks. They then plot the data on a graph to make it easier to review.
Discussion 2.4: Plotting data over timeUse the fl ipchart to draw two time-series charts from the Maternal Health Data (Figure 5).
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Developing and testing changes
STEP: 3
Step 3: Learning objectives:1) How to develop ideas about what to change to reach your aim
2) How to test these changes using Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles
Step 3 has two sections – one for maternal health (Section A) and one for newborn health (Section B). Each group should choose which scenario they want to focus on. If time permits, the group can do the other one as well.
Section A: Maternal Health Scenario
Case Scenario Part 6:Review the fl owcharts and fi shbone diagrams to have a better understanding of what was causing them to deliver suboptimal care. This helps to come up with some ideas about changes to make that could help to provide uterotonic in time.
Discussion 3.1: Improving uterotonic administration - change ideas.
Change Why do you think this will improve care?
Case Scenario Part 7:The team discusses that they should try to make sure there is a pre-loaded syringe of oxytocin available at the labour table for each delivery. They discuss some of the challenges with this:
1. Who will prepare the syringe?
2. When should it be prepared?
3. Where will it be kept after preparation?
4. Where will it be kept during delivery?
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The nurses on the team say that they can prepare the syringe. One of them thinks it will be easiest to prepare the syringe when a new woman comes in labour to the labour room and the other one thinks that they should prepare a few syringes at the start of each new shift. Because the facility does not have a fridge in the labour room, both nurses decide to keep the syringes on a cold pack. The team discusses that both ideas seem reasonable and that there are pros and cons to both of these options.
Pre-load one syringe when woman comes into the labour room
There will be no waste of oxytocin
You will not run out of oxytocin
Some women are already pushing when they arrive so there will be no time
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Pre-load a few syringes at the start of each shift
There will always be enough time to do this
We may under-or over-estimate the need for oxytocin and end up wasting it or running out
Discussion 3.2: Testing changes to see if they are practicalHow would you advise the team to use PDSA cycles to learn which is the best time to preload the syringe of oxytocin?
What change will you make?
Who will make the change?
Where will this take place?
For how long will the change be tested?
What do you want to learn from this test?
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Case Scenario Part 8:The team agrees that the two nurses should try their own preferred method during their next shift and to learn:
� Whether there is enough time to do this when a woman comes into the delivery room.
� If they preload at the start of a shift, do they run out or waste oxytocin.
� In both cases, where should they keep the pre-loaded syringe after preparation and during delivery?
The two nurses work in different shifts and test their preferred method the next time they work. The nurse who is testing pre-loading one syringe when the mother comes into the labour room delivers three babies. The nurse who is testing pre-loading multiple syringes at the start of the shift delivers two babies.
From this test, the team learned that:� Preloading one syringe when women come into the delivery room
� This worked well for two of the deliveries but one woman came into the delivery room in advanced labour and there was no time to draw up the syringe.
� Preloading multiple syringes at the start of the shift
� The nurse who wanted to try this method remembered that the most babies she had ever delivered in a shift were fi ve. So, she pre-loaded fi ve syringes and kept them on an ice pack in the emergency tray kept at the side of the labour table.
� This system worked well although the tray was rather crowded with fi ve syringes.
� At the end of the shift, she told the next nurse about the three pre-loaded syringes and suggested use the same method and preload two more syringes (to keep fi ve available). The other nurse did not want to because there were no more cold packs.
Discussion 3.3: What to do as you learn from PDSA cycle
What should the team do next?
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Case Scenario Part 9:The team agrees that preloading syringes at the start of the shift is a good idea but realizes they still have some details to work out:
� How many syringes to preload at the start of the shift?
� What to do with the leftover syringes at the end of the shift?
� How to make sure there are enough cold packs?
The team decides:1. that fi ve pre-loaded syringes are too many and that three will be enough as it is rare to have more than three
deliveries.
2. to keep the unused syringes for the next shift and that the incoming nurse will pre-load more to bring the total to three.
3. to get an extra cold pack from the pharmacist and to always keep one in the freezer so that there is always one available.
They decide to test these changes for the next shift. During that shift, two babies were born and the system worked well.
At the end of the shift, the incoming nurse wanted to throw out the pre-loaded syringe because she thought it would get mixed up with the syringes she was going to pre-load.
Instead, the two nurses decided that they would add the date and time to the syringe label when it was drawn up so that the nurse would know which one to use fi rst. In the next shift, four babies were born.
After the third baby was born, the nurse pre-loaded three more syringes to keep the total at three syringes.
The team met again to discuss what they had learned from these changes and PDSA.
The team decides that:1. they would add the date and time to the syringe label when it was drawn up so that the nurse would know
which one to use fi rst
2. after the third baby was born in any shift, the nurse would pre-load three more syringes in her shift to keep the total at three preloaded syringes
Discussion 3.4: Testing changes
How many changes has the team tested so far?
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The team decided to ask the nurses on duty for the next three shifts to get their feedback on this new approach and their suggestions for improvement.
At the end of the three shifts, they decide that this approach is feasible.
Eight babies were born during those shifts. All of them got oxytocin in the fi rst minute after delivery. This is much better than the baseline data.
They then hold a series of meetings for other labour room staff who have not been involved in the project to discuss the new way of working, showing them how to pre-fi ll the syringes in advance and sharing the data showing improvement.
Other staff start administering oxytocin in a timely manner as well.
Section B: Newborn Health Scenario
Case Scenario Part 6:
Reducing neonatal hypothermiaThe team realizes that they are providing care in the bassinet rather than following the evidence-based practice of starting skin-to-skin care immediately after delivery.
Part of the reason for this is that some nurses are not aware of the importance of skin-to-skin care.
Another reason is that nurses are following the steps on Flowchart 1 because that is the easiest way to provide care given the current way the room is set up and how supplies are kept.
Discussion 3.1: Developing changesWhat changes in care do you think that the team could make to see if that improves care?
How many PDSA cycles have they done?
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Reducing neonatal hypothermia at one hour:
Case Scenario Part 7:One of the team members is aware of the evidence that skin-to-skin contact is benefi cial for both mother and baby. She convinces everyone that it will be possible and benefi cial to do this.
The team discusses how to change the order of activities after birth to ensure that skin-to-skin care happens immediately and is not interrupted. They decide to follow the new steps of care:
1) put the baby on the mother’s chest immediately after delivery and keep the baby there while doing the other activities
2) dry the baby and clean his or her eyes (as per national guidelines)and cover with a dry towel
3) cut the cord after 1-3 minutes
4) encourage breastfeeding as soon as possible
5) leave the vitamin K and weighing until after breastfeeding has started
Now that the team has decided that they are going to use skin-to-skin care as the process to reduce hypothermia, they realize that they need to measure this.
They develop a new process measure: the percentage of babies getting skin-to-skin contact at birth for at least one hour.
Not everyone in the group is convinced that this will be feasible. Different people raise possible objections, which include:
� mothers will not want to put the baby skin-to-skin right after delivery because they are tired and because the baby is wet
� it will be hard for nurses to dry and clean the baby and cut the cord while the baby is with the mother
� if the babies do not get weighed and receive vitamin K immediately, then nurses will forget to do this later
Change Why do you think this will improve care?
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Discussion 3.2: Testing changes to see if they are practicalHow would you advise the team to plan a PDSA cycle to learn if changing the order of care is feasible or if the objections raised by some people in the team will make it hard to make this change?
What change will you make?
Who will test the change?
Where will the test take place?
What do you want to learn from this test?
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Case Scenario Part 8:The team decides to try using the new order of care for all babies born in a single shift and to learn:
� How do mothers feel about starting skin-to-skin immediately?
� How easy is it to provide care on the mother’s chest?
� Do nurses still remember to weigh the baby and give vitamin K?
One of the nurses who is enthusiastic about this new idea volunteers to test it during her next shift. She delivers two babies. From this test, the nurse learned that:
� Both the mothers were happy to receive the baby right after delivery
� Drying the baby on the mothers’ chest was more diffi cult than doing this in the bassinet because the towels and other supplies were by the bassinet and the nurse had to walk over to get them
� The nurse remembered to weigh the baby and give vitamin K because they had to be recorded on the medical record which she had to fi ll out before transferring the baby to the ward
At the end of the shift, members of the team who are there meet to discuss what to do next.
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Discussion 3.3: What to do as you learn from PDSA cycle
What should the team do next?
Case Scenario Part 9:The team agrees that reordering the steps of care is a good idea and should keep babies warm. They feel that the way the room is currently organized makes it diffi cult.
They decide to move the supply table from the bassinet to the bedside to make it easier to care for babies on the mother’s chest.
As a group, they go to the labour room and move the supplies closer to the labour table.
They try two options until they have a set-up that people think will work.
They then decide to test for one shift if the new organization of the room makes it easier to provide immediate care to babies while they are in skin-to-skin contact with their mother.
In the next shift, the nurse delivers two babies. She had to reorganize the room again after the fi rst delivery and found that this made caring for the babies much easier.
Discussion 3.4: Testing changes
How many changes has the team in the scenario tested so far?
How many changes has the team in the scenario tested so far?
How many PDSA cycles have they done?
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The team decided to ask the nurses on duty for the next three shifts to get their feedback on the new room set-up and get their suggestions for improvement.
At the end of the three shifts, they have made a few more small changes in the room set-up and also involved the cleaning and maintenance staff so that they also know about how the room should be set up. Eight babies were born in those shifts. Six of them had normal temperatures at 60 minutes. This is much better than the baseline data.
They then hold a series of meetings for other labour room staff who have not been involved in the project to discuss the new way of working, showing them how to care for babies on the mother’s chest and sharing the data showing improvement.
Other staff members start delivering babies in this way as well.
Case Scenario SummaryStaff team in this hospital decided that they wanted to improve care for mothers and babies.
They reviewed their data and used a prioritization matrix to pick two specifi c aims:
a) increasing the use of uterotonic within one minute of delivery
b) reducing neonatal hypothermia
They then formed a team to work on these aims (STEP 1).
The team used fl owchart and fi shbone diagram to analyze the problem and identify key issues that they
needed to address to reach these aims. They realized that their main problems were that the fl ow of care
after delivery led to the situation that babies did not receive skin-to-skin care immediately after delivery
which led to hypothermia, and that the procedure of fi lling a syringe with oxytocin after delivery led to a
situation that most women did not get the drug within one minute of delivery (STEP 2).
Based on their analysis, the team decides to pre-load oxytocin syringes for the mother and to change the
work fl ow for newborn care after delivery so that skin-to-skin care can start immediately. They tested
these ideas fi rst during one shift to see if these are feasible and then a series of PDSA cycles to identify the
best way to work for different nurses working at different shifts on different days (STEP 3).
They also involved all the other staff, nurses and cleaners so that they all understood the new way of
working (STEP 4). The fi gures below show the progress of the team.
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Change 1: New sequence of care: 1) Baby on mother's chest 2) dry and clean 3) cut cord 4) encourage breast feeding
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Percentage of babies receiving immediate skin to skin care
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Sustaining improvement
STEP: 4
Step 4: Learning objectives1) How to embed/incorporate successful changes into your system to sustain the improvement in quality
of care?
2) How to engage and motivate team to view QI as an important tool improving work culture across the health facility for providing better care?
Implementation:After testing ideas and fi nding ones that work, you will want to implement them so that the changes are permanent and consistently applied in all situations. This involves:
1. Making the change the new standard process across the unit/department
2. Taking specifi c steps to prevent from slipping back to the old ways of working. (hardwiring through job descriptions, protocols, etc.)
3. Keeping an eye on key indicators to ensure improvement is sustained
It is also important to build more enthusiasm among health-care teams for quality improvement. Useful strategies for doing this include:
� Manager of the health facility should continuously encourage the health-care team to incrementally improve quality of care
� Rewarding people who are involved in QI efforts
� Give opportunities for them to share their successful work within the health facility and beyond
� Build multiple teams in the health facility so that they can learn and support each other
� The health-care team should keep higher-ups in the system informed, tell them about your success and build a case for additional resources, if required.
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Steps in QI Step 1: Identifying a problem, forming a team
and writing an aim statement
Step 2: Analyzing and measuring quality of care
Step 3: Developing and testing changes
Step 4: Sustaining improvement
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Step ILearning objectives
You will learn
How to review data to identify problems
How to prioritize which problems to work on
How to form a team to work on that problem
How to write a clear ‘aim statement’
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Identifying a problem to solve Data-based decision: Review local health facility
data and identify gaps related to quality of care
Simple, easy to fi x & amenable to change
Value for patient outcomes
Does not need many new resources
Short turn-around time: early success is motivating
Avoid long-term projects initially
Decreasing maternal mortality in a small facility:
Decreasing hemorrhagic disease in newborn (vitamin K related): since onset is late follow up after discharge is required to capture this
Select your teamSLook for volunteers who are:
Enthusiastic - they want to make changes
Involved - they are already doing the work that needs change
Infl uential - others people listen to them and they can get things done
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Select your teamIdentify who should be in the team
Need people from every level From all involved departments
from administrators to cleaners
Assign some key roles Leader
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Why is teamwork important for improvement? Healthcare is provided by range of people in the
hospital
Given the opportunity, staff can identify problems and generate ideas to resolve them
Participation improves ideas, increases buy-in, and reduces resistance to change
Accomplishing things together increases the confi dence of each member
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Aim statementCharacteristics of a good aim statement
States a clear, specifi c aim
Linked to specifi c patient population
Should include a goal: Neither too diffi cult nor too long to achieve
Includes a solution Do not include possible, yet unproven solutions
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Specifi c
Measurable
Achievable (but challenging)
Relevant and recorded
Timely
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Aim statementProblem: All babies are not dried immediately after birth
We will implement standard practice of immediate drying at birth in all 100% of births from current 60% within 4 weeks.
Who (which patients )- Newborn
What (the process )- Immediate drying using dried clean towel
How much (the amount of desired improvement)-from baseline rate of 60 % to 100%
By when (time over which change will occur)- within 4 weeks
Aim statementProblem: Babies are cold at one hour following birth
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We will reduce the percentage of newborns with low temperature( <36.5 C ) from 50% to <10% within 6 weeks
Who (which patients )- Newborn
What (the outcome)-Hypothermia
How much (the amount of desired improvement)-from baseline rate of 53 % to <10%
By when (time over which change will occur)- within 6 weeks
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Is this a good aim statement
To establish skin to skin contact after delivery in low risk mothers admitted in Labour Room, AIIMS New Delhi
To establish skin to skin contact immediately after delivery for at least one hour to an extent of 25% in two weeks in low risk mothers admitted in Labour Room, AIIMS New Delhi
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Steps in QI Step 1: Identifying a problem, forming a team
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Step 2: Analyzing and measuring quality of care
Step 3: Developing and testing changes
Step 4: Sustaining improvement
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Step 2 Learning objectives
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Tools for understanding processes and systems and how to use them
How these tools can help identify possible solutions to reach your aim
How to choose indicators for process or outcome
How to use indicators to track progress of improvement
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Step 2: Analyzing and measuring quality of care Cause & effectWhy might a problem be happening?
Get to the root cause of the quality issue (4P’s)
People
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Procedures (practices)
Policies
anything else
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1.FishboneGet to the root cause of the quality issue(4P’s)
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2. "Five whys" Mothers are not breastfeeding –Why ?
They feel uncomfortable taking their gown off –Why ?
The gown opens at back , so they have to take entire gown off to breast feed ,so they feel exposed . Why they have this type gown?
That is what store keeper orders .Why doesn’t the store keeper order better gowns appropriate for breast feeding ?
No one has requested him to do that
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3.Pareto chartsLearning objectives
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Example: Medication error
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Example: Medication error
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4. Process flow chart How to develop a process fl ow chart
1. Decide the beginning and end points of the process to be fl ow charted
2. Identify the steps of the process as these are practiced at present
3. Link the steps with arrows showing direction
4. Review the chart to see whether the steps are in their logical order to achieve the end point effi ciently: Is the order wrong, are some steps unnecessary?
How to create a process Flow chart
One fl ow line out of step
Two fl ow lines out of steps that lead to different options
One fl ow line out of cloud steps that are not clear
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Analysis helps to fi nd out the root cause of problems
Try to fi nd few barriers that account for most of the problem
Help the teams think about how re-organization can help with fi xing the problem
Video on Pareto chart
Step 2: Analyzing and measuring quality of care
Measurement Determine the indicators which enable us to
know whether we have made improvement
Look at baseline data and information
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What is an indicator?
A measurement tool
defi nes a rate/ratio or an event
Used as guide to monitor and evaluate the quality of healthcare – Is it improving?
A tool to make continuous improvement in quality of care
Process and outcome indicators? Measure of Process – actions that are taken in
delivery of care
Washing hands to prevent infections
Outcome (“in the population…”)
Incidence of infection in the patients
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Process and outcome indicators?
If you don’t measure process, how will you know
What led to improvement?
If you don’t measure outcome, how will you know
If improvement has occurred?
Why do we need indicators?
To measure the specifi c processes and outcomes
The quantitative data can be used by teams and organizations for assessment and analysis of trend over time
They allow us to make comparisons with other health care facilities
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Qualities of a good indicator Clear and unambiguous (teams will not confuse
what is meant by a particular indicator)
Identifi es a clear numerator and denominator
Also important to decide Source of data and who is collecting it
Frequency at which data would be collected
Key elements for putting indicators to use
Indicators should be linked to aims
Should be used to test change and guide improvement
Should be integrated into team’s daily routine
Important to select a few key measures – don’t overburden with endless data collection
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Example of good indicator
Indicator: The rate of PPH in women in the hospital
Numerator: Number of cases of PPH
Denominator: Number of women giving birth
Source: Labour room register in the health facility
Person responsible: Delivery room nurse
Frequency: Labour room register will be reviewed monthly
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Plotting a time series chart
Title: Clear and well defi ned title that includes what and when
X and Y axis have clear scale and include indicator label
X axis: Time period - days/weeks/months
Y axis: measurement in %, proportion
Annotation of variables
Numerator and denominator values are shown
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Time-series chart:Percentage of women receiving uterotonic within one minute
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Looking at data overtime is crucial and more frequent measurement (daily or weekly) is better than less frequent(monthly)
Only collect data what you are going to use
If possible, try to use data that is already recorded in your health facility or that will be easy to collect
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Step 3Learning objectives
You will learn
How to come up with ideas about what to change to reach your aim
how to test these changes at small scale using Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles
Develop changes
Determine possible changes (interventions) that may lead to improvement
Organize changes according to importance and practicality
Test one change at one time
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Some categories of changes Category Meaning
Improve knowledge or skills Training or standards
Eliminate waste Stop doing harmful or useless things
Reassign tasks Change who does what
Reorganize tasks Do tasks in different order or different location
Improve patient relationship Listen to what patients want
Reduce variation Do things to make work more standard
Developing changes-Ask your Team
What changes will we make ?
Why will this change result in an improvement?
How will it work?
What improvement will we expect to see as a result of this change ?
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Some categories of changesCategory Examples
Improve knowledge or skills Teach about the importance of skin-to-skin care to keep babies warm
Eliminate waste Have equipment closer to hand to reduce time getting it
Reassign tasks Share work between staff members
Reorganize tasks Start skin to skin and dry babies before cutting the cord
Improve patient Learn from mothers how relationship they would like care to be
provided when they deliver
Reduce variation Triage new admissions in LR
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Ask and document the details for:
what needs to be done?
who will do it?
who will measure indicator?
when will it be started
when will result be reviewed ?
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Test Changes
Adopt Adapt Abandon Plan
Plan the change
StudyReview
the data
Do Test the change
Act Next steps on the basis of the study
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Testing the change
Test BIG changes on small scale
Test individual changes separately when possible
Negative results are opportunity to learn
Think about how conditions change over time (monthly, seasonal patterns, external variables)
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Planning Describe:
What change will you test
Who will make the change
Where they will do it
How long they will test
Step 1 Group Work Step 2A Step 2B Group Work Step 3 Group Work Step 4
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Planning ExampleWhat change will you New protocol for post-partum test? assessment to pick up PPH earlier
Who will make the Two of the nurses involved inchange? developing the protocol
Where will they do it? They will test the protocol in thepost-partum ward
How long will they test? They will test it on their next shift
What do you want to • Is it feasible to follow thelearn? protocol?
• Do we need to adapt theprotocol?
• Do we need to changeanything on the ward to make iteasier to follow the protocol?
Step 1 Group Work Step 2A Step 2B Group Work Step 3 Group Work Step 4
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Study and act After testing the change you need to think
about: Is this feasible in our setting
What else needs to be done so this change can happen
Do we think it will solve the problem
After answering these questions the team will decide if they should: Adopt
Adapt
Abandon
Step 1 Group Work Step 2A Step 2B Group Work Step 3 Group Work Step 4
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PDSA cycles – what next ? Pilot phase
Few workers are involved less resistance
Rapid cycles take shorter time
Support needed low Testers do not yet
intend changes to be permanent
Tolerance high: A failed test is taken an opportunity to learn
Implementation phase
Implement at scale changes that have shown defi nite improvement in pilot phase
Large number of workers involved – expect more resistance
Higher support needed
More time, people, resources needed.
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Implementation Making the change in the new standard process
across the health facilities (unit/department)
Specifi c steps taken to prevent from slipping back to the old ways of working. (Hardwiring through job descriptions, protocols etc.)
System to keep an eye on key indicators to ensure improvement is sustained
Making the successful change permanent and consistent
Step 1 Group Work Step 2A Step 2B Group Work Step 3 Group Work Step 4
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Key tips
Change ideas will improve care
1. They are right idea
2. Putting change in action
3. Adapting it to the local context
Testing changes as small PDSA cycles
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Multiple ramps of changes towards a single aimAim: Reduce severe hypothermia in newborn babies by 50% in 3 months
Put wall thermometer in newborn corner
Revert to cling wraps and improve application
Make ziploc bags available (abandon)
Transport incubator warmed before transfer
On job mentoring
Orientation for new staff
Switch off air conditioner in labour room prior to anticipated preterm birth
Maintain baby’s temperature
Staff educated and involved
Maintain ambient temperature
P DAS
P DAS
P DAS
P DAS
P DAS
P DAS
P DAS
Adapted from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
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Steps in QI
Step 1: Identifying a problem, forming a team and writing an aim statement
Step 2: Analyzing and measuring quality of care
Step 3: Developing and testing changes
Step 4: Sustaining improvement
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Step 4 Learning objectives
You will learn
how to embed successful changes into health system to sustain the improvement in quality of care
engage and motivate team to view QI as culture for improvement thus improving work culture across the health facility for providing better care
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Implementing changesSustenance is key
Embed successful ideas into system - requires concrete actions e.g. framing guidelines, standard operating procedures or job responsibilities
Continuous process with eye on improvement
QI is contextual but learnings can be shared and adapted at other places after testing
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Hardwiring of QI project Documenting the fl ow of the new process — the
new way of doing things
Providing training on the new process
Teaching people new skills that might be required of them
Making changes to job descriptions, policies, procedures
Addressing supply and equipment issues
Assigning day-to-day ownership for the improvement and maintenance of the new process
Having senior leaders remove any barriers that might allow slippage back to the old process
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Tinkering vs System Change Problem Tinkering System change
Physicians orders Chastise physicians, Computerize are illegible, tell them to work order entry or usecausing harder standardizedmedication errors order sets to minimize need for hand writing
Oximeter alarms Penalize nurses/ Modify alarmnot set as Sanction nurses defaultsordered who are non compliant
Breast milk low for Suggest hospital to Create processpremature hire lactation to improvebabies consultants effi cient use of breast pumps
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Useful tips to sustain…spread..
Successful team involves new members in hospital to join; help forms multiple teams
Spread best practices among colleagues in the hospital
Keep higher ups informed: Hospital team informs MS/ Director and they inform the district/state
System rewards successful teams – Certifi cates, QI jewel of month
System provides opportunities to successful teams to disseminate and share their success widely
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Key to success Local champion: A team leader who respects
others, is a keen listener, uses collective wisdom of the team rather than being directive, identifi es & harnesses key strengthens of members, sets example
Personal aspirations: Remember most of us entered medical profession with aim to alleviate sufferings and help society
Positive attitude: Being positive and prepared to address barriers, challenges which prevent us achieving this aim
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QI Project Template and Review Sheet
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Quality Improvement Project Template
STEP: 1
Problem, team and aim statement
What problem do you want to solve?
Who should be on your team?
Member names and designation:
Team leader:
Recorder:
Date of fi rst team meeting:
What is your aim statement?
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STEP: 2
Analysing the problem and measuring quality of care
What tools will you use for the analysis?
What information do you want from each tool that you plan to use?
What measures will you use?
Process Measure:
Numerator:
Denominator:
Outcome Measure:
Numerator:
Denominator:
How will you collect the data?
Process measure:
Person responsible for data collection:
What data sources will you use?
What baseline data will you collect?
How frequently will you collect and review data?
Outcome measure:
Person responsible for data collection:
What data sources will you use?
What baseline data will you collect?
How frequently will you collect and review data?
A simple ms. excel fi le is provided in the USB f lash drive for analyzing data and making time-series charts (run charts).
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STEP: 3
Developing and testing changes
Develop Changes:
What changes do you think will help solve the problem and why do you think it will improve care?
Change Why do you think it will improve care?
Test changes: Planning initial PDSA cycles
Plan
PDSA cycle 1
Change to be tested
Who will test? (if this person is not onthe QI team, he/she should be added)
Over how much time will the test be done?
When will it take place?
What will you measure?
What do you predict will happen?
Do
Study When will the team meet to review?
Act
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STEP: 4
Sustaining Improvement
Test changes: Planning initial PDSA cycles
Plan
PDSA cycle 2
Change to be tested
Who will test? (if this person is not on the QI team, he/she should be added)
Over how much time will the test be done?
When will it take place?
What will you measure?
What do you predict will happen?
Do
Study When will the team meet to review?
Act
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Quality Improvement Project Review Sheet
STEP: 1
Identifying a problem, forming a team and writing an aim statement
STEP: 2
Analysing the problem and measuring quality of care
Why is this a good aim?
Can you get results quickly?
What extra resources do you think willbe required?
How important is the aim to the QI team - hasthe team used the prioritization matrix?
Who else will think the aim is important?
How can you motivate others to supportthis initiative?
Why is this the right analysis plan?
Will the tools you have chosen help you toidentify the right changes?
Do you have people on the team who cananalyse what happens at the patient level?
Why is this the right team? Do you have people on the team who are:
Enthusiastic about fi xing this problem?
Involved in delivering care related to this problem?
Infl uential enough to get more people involved?
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STEP: 3
Developing and testing changes
Will these changes address the root cause of the problem?
How do the changes you are planning addresswhat you found in your analysis?
If all of your changes are related to education ormanagement directives, how sure are you thatlack of information or lack of direction isthe root cause?
Why is this the right measurement plan?
How diffi cult will it be to collect the data?
Easy to measure valid data?
Are these new data variables?
Can you review these data frequently?
What will be the plan to share and analyse the data?
How easy will it be to put these changes into action?
Were the staff who will have to make thesechanges involved in picking them?
Will you need to change anything else to testthese changes?
Are you making sure that you can learn as much as possible from your tests?
Is there any way of doing the testing faster?
What will you do if the change does not work?
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STEP: 4
Sustaining Improvement
How should we get other people involved?
How can the organization and its leaderspromote improvement?
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Plan of ActionSECTION 4
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Plan of Action for the team
By now you must have ideas on how to practice QI projects in your own hospital/health facility. As hospital team, please prepare a plan of action to undertake upon returning to your duty station. Please use the table to prepare such a plan and complete this exercise in 15 minutes.
Be prepared to share the activities you have identifi ed in the plenary feedback session (15 minutes).
Date of Planning
Activity Why are we doing this/what
output is expected?
Responsible Person
By when will this be
done?
Status(Not started, In progress, Completed)
Comments; Extra
resources needed
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Knowledge Assessment
Select ONE right answer for each of the following questions:
1. When starting your fi rst quality improvement project, you will aim to do which of thefollowing?
a. Fix all the problems
b. Do whatever the facility in-charge decides
c. Select a single and easy problem for the fi rst QI project
d. Select a challenging problem to solve
2. Who should decide at a facility what needs to be achieved in a QI project?
a. The facility in-charge will order what needs to be achieved
b. The medical offi cer will decide
c. QI team members get together and decide
d. QI coach tells staff what to do
3. A quality improvement team should have (tick which one is NOT correct)
a. Staff from various cadres
b. Health workers who carry out the processes that will need to be changed
c. A manager or leader of facility
d. A team leader who should always be the facility in-charge
4. To understand all the steps of a process, which problem analysis tool will be helpful touse?
a. Five whys
b. Fishbone
c. Process fl owchart
d. Pareto chart
5. To understand the multiple causes of a problem, which tool will be helpful to use?
a. Five whys
b. Fishbone
c. Process fl owchart
d. Pareto chart
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6. To understand in depth the underlying causes of a problem, which tool will be helpful to use?
a. Five whys
b. Fishbone
c. Process fl owchart
d. Pareto chart
7. Measurement is important for (tick which is NOT correct)
a. Identifying barriers that may be stopping us from getting results
b. Understanding whether there is any improvement or not
c. Judging which health facility is doing badly so that action can be taken against it
d. Planning what to do next in a QI project
8. PDSA is:
a. Plan, Do, Say, Act
b. Plan, Do, Study, Act
c. Program, Do, Study, Accurate
d. Program, Do, Study, Act
9. Why is it important to test a new change idea?
a. To understand whether the change is working or not
b. To increase acceptability among the health workers involved in the change
c. To prevent large cost of failure
d. All of the above
10. In a health-care setting, there is always scope for improvement. Yet not much effort ismade for improvement. Which of the following is NOT the reason for this?
a. At present, there is limited knowledge in the health system on how to systematically improve
quality of care
b. It may be diffi cult to identify changes that can be made and will lead to improvement
c. Doing better always requires more resources such as beds, equipment, supplies and human
resources.
d. It requires soft skills to motivate people to participate in improvement activities
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11. A team of nurses and doctors in a newborn care unit have found that mothers of pretermbabies can provide more expressed breast milk if they are encouraged to come to thenewborn care unit within the fi rst day of birth of baby and handle the baby. As doctor-in-charge of another newborn care unit after hearing this success story, what should you do?
a. Implement this practice in your unit
b. Cannot do this in your unit as mothers do not maintain hygiene and it can result in increased
incidence of sepsis
c. Do nothing. It will not work because this is a different set up
d. Test this idea in your unit by doing it for a small number of babies over the next few days and
collect data how it affects feeding practices and sepsis and see what nurses think
12. A newborn care doctor wants to decrease the time it takes to get an X-ray done for a babywith respiratory distress. How can he/she think of what changes will lead to achieving thisobjective?
a. By buying and placing an X-ray machine within the unit
b. By recruiting and placing an X-ray technician at the unit
c. By outsourcing X-ray services
d. By fi rst understanding various steps (processes) that are needed to get the X-ray done
13. Over the last few years, fewer users are forgetting their ATM card in the ATM machine.What is the reason for this?
a. ATMs now have posters reminding people not to leave behind their ATM card
b. Banks send an SMS after money withdrawal, which reminds them to collect the ATM card
c. You get the money after you take out the card. The steps in money withdrawal from ATMs have
been revised to ensure that users do not forget their card
d. Average bank balances have improved over last few years, which makes people more alert
14. Newborn care units in three of ten hospitals are reporting high infection rates. The statechild coordinator passes an order that all doctors and nurses should wash hands as perguidelines. Is this going to decrease infection rates signifi cantly?
a. Yes, orders work best and doctors and nurses will start washing hands consistently
b. This is not an effective way of changing behaviour as frontline health-care workers are not
involved
c. No, because health-care workers lack the knowledge and skill to do hand washing
d. Yes, because the guidelines are evidence based
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15. The doctor-in-charge of a newborn care unit starts to monitor infection rates. What typeof measure is incidence of infection?
a. Outcome measure
b. Process measure
c. Balance measure
d. Ranking measure
16. The doctor is also recording proportion of health-care workers washing hands. What typeof measure is compliance to hand-washing?
a. Outcome measure
b. Process measure
c. Balance measure
d. Ranking measure
17. The aim statement written by the doctor for this improvement project is “To reduce therate of hospital-acquired infection in my unit”. What is missing in this statement?
a. Does not specify how much reduction
b. Does not specify the timeline by when infection will be reduced
c. Does not specify in which patients
d. All of the above
18. The data collected for infection rates are being plotted in the graph shown below.
What is this type of chart called?
a. Time series chart
b. Frequency polygon
c. Incidence chart
d. Histogram
Infection Rate
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6
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19. You notice in your unit register that despite a recommendation of routine administrationof vitamin K to all neonates at birth, 20% neonates do not get the dose. What will you donext?
a. Tell everyone to fi ll a syringe and keep it as a part of resuscitation tray
b. Hang a poster near the resuscitation trolley
c. Tell the nurse in-charge to review the patient fi le before discharging the baby
d. Form a team and get together to analyse the problem
20. The district health offi cer forms quality improvement teams in newborn care unit at onehealth facility. Whose presence is least likely to be benefi cial in the QI team of facility?
a. Nurses from the unit
b. Doctors working in the unit
c. Hospital administrator
d. A senior specialist from a tertiary health-care facility
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Further ReadingWebsites:All India Institute of Medical Sciences Quality Improvement: www.aiimsqi.org
USAID ASSIST Project: www.usaid-assist.org
Institute for Healthcare Improvement: www.ihi.org
The International Society for Quality in Health Care: http://www.isqua.org/
HealthQual International : http://www.healthqual.org/
NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub: http://www.qihub.scot.nhs.uk/
Publications:Every Mother Every Newborn (EMEN) Quality Improvement Guide for Health Facility Staff http://www.healthynewbornnetwork.org/resource/every-mother-every-newborn-emen-quality-improvement-guide-health-facility-staff-guide-appendices/
Langley, Moen, Nolan, Nolan, Norman, Provost. The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance. 2nd edition, Jossey-Bass Pub., San Francisco, 2009
Provost, Murray. The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement. 1st Edition. Jossey-Bass Pub., San Francisco, 2011.
Singh R, Singh M, Jha R, Sharma P, Livesley N. 2017. Improving Quality in Healthcare: A point of care case study. Technical Report. Published by the USAID ASSIST Project. Bethesda, MD: University Research Co., LLC (URC).
E-Learning QI course:https://www.usaidassist.org/resources/improving-health-care-quality-elearning-course
Videos: A quality improvement initiative on breastfeeding practices among mothers of infants admitted to NICU. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOEhoU2DJ6g
Quality improvement initiative in kangaroo mother care practices in NICU at AIIMS, New Delhi. Available at :https://www.Youtube.Com/watch?V=gondskp6mna
NICU quality initiative to improve admission temperature of preterm neonates < 32 weeks gestation. Available at :https://www.Youtube.Com/watch?V=knc9wokjnoo
A quality improvement initiative in NICU -improving the life of radiant warmer temperature probe involving mothers. Available at: https://www.Youtube.Com/watch?V=jumhywkrkl
Quality Improvement Initiatives in the Government of India’s RMNCH+A Strategy: Lessons from Chamba, Himachal Pradesh. Available at: https://www.usaidassist.org/resources/quality-improvement-initiatives-government-india%E2%80%99s-rmncha-strategy-lessons-chamba-himachal
Common Pitfalls for New Improvement Teams: A Story from New Delhi, India. Available at: https://www.usaidassist.org/resources/common-pitfalls-new-improvement-teams-story-new-delhi-india
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Successful case studies on QI
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Background Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a safe and alternative method of providing care for low birth weight (LBW) babies. This includes early, continuous and prolonged skin to skin contact of baby with the mother or any caregiver from the family. Ideally KMC should be practiced uninterruptedly for 24 hours/day (WHO recommendation) Our unit practice is to give KMC for minimum an hour and gradually increased to as long as possible up to 24 hours, as any session of KMC lasting less than an hour could be stressful for the baby Benefits of KMC include � Increased breast feeding rates� Better thermal control� Less morbidity and mortality and � Early discharge from neonatal intensive care unit
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Status of KMC in our NurseryKMC is initiated for all preterm and LBW babies as soon as they become hemo-dynamically stable and for initially hemo-dynamically unstable babies, on ventilatory support or having shock, receiving ionotropes etc., it gets delayed for days to weeks before their condition allows for the same
Aim To increase the durations of KMC practice of LBW infants from the current baseline value (current average 3 hours/day) by 3 hours (minimum 6hours duration/day) our 2 months
Baseline Data Collection Plan Baseline data collection of eligible babies who were initiated KMC during the study period was collected in a predesigned performa which included:
� Demographic profile related to mother and baby
� The weight and gestational age at birth of the baby
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Team member: Nurse Educator, 4 Nurses, Resident doctor, Faculty Incharge NICU, Mothers
Problem analysis
Lack of support from health care team No proper counseling, lack of privacy for mothers. Lack of accountability of assigned Nurse. Lack of initiative by other family members for KMC (lack of knowledge, support to the mother, lack of confidence) Lack of knowledge and confidence among the mothers and family members in providing KMC due to absence of counseling sessions related to KMC No KMC paretic at night Mothers spending more time in milk expression and feeding the baby.
Comprehensive postnatal counselling (CNPC): PDSA cycle week 1
By a team of 4 dedicated nursing staff working in NICU in different shifts, which includes
Showing video shows on KMC for the mother and 2-3 family members, explaining benefits of KMC, duration, involvement of family members in KMC in 1 to 1 basis
Motivating mothers and family for increasing the duration of KMC.
Motivating other family members for participating providing KMC where mother is the sole provider for KMC
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PDSA cycle week 2 Encouraging nurses for ensuring KMC for at least 2 hours per shift
Felicitation and provision of certificate of appreciation to staff nurses responsible for ensuring maximum KMC hours in their shifts on weekly basis in periodic meetings.
Promoting supportive environment in NICU for KMC.
Mothers and the family members involved in KMC were also encouraged and acknowledged for doing KMC.
PDSA cycle week 3 Round the clock availability of nursing staff for babies on KMC with some kind of respiratory support like oxygen therapy. This decreased anxiety and fear of KMC provider due to occasional desaturation at the time of KMC Resulting in batter compliance
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Lessons Learned The simple measures like active participation of family members and continuous positive reinforcement from treating team resulted in improving current existing KMC duration significantly. This will ultimately result in decreasing infection rate, batter growth of preterm babies and early discharge
Conclusion Average duration of KMC increased from 3hours to 6 hours within a span of 8 weeks Almost all mothers were doing KMC>6 Hours Longest duration of KMC is up to 16hour/day Active involvement of mother as well as all other relative for KMC resulted in sustained increased duration of KMC practice implementation
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POCQI LEARNER MANUAL
Improving the quality of care for mothers and newborns in health facilities
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Background Root cause analysis (Fish bone)
A Quality Improvement Initiative in NICU Improving the life of radiant warmer temperature probe
Involving mothers
Aim
Data collection related to breakage of the probe in 3 radiant warmers over 2 weeks time revealed the average life of the probe to be 9+_5 days.
To increase the life of the temperature probe by 50% in 8 weeks by reducing the breakage of the temperature probe in NICU.
Problem Identified
PDSA Cycles
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Radiant warmer (open care system) �Provides warm micro-environment to maintain stable body temperature �Especially essential in very low birth weight babies using servo or manual mode of heating �Application of temperature probe on the skin of the baby helpful in number of ways •Servo mode : Temperature probe plays a crucial role in controlling heater output as per baby’s temperature •Manual mode : Helps in monitoring baby’s temperature
�Temperature probe is delicate, likely to break if not handled carefully and a costly accessory ( INR 3000) �Dislodgment of probe was reported as a balancing outcome while promoting Kangaroo mother care
The frequent breakage of radiant warmer temperature probe in NICU for babies undergoing KMC. Baseline life of the probe was reported to be 10 days. Frequent breakage of probe was adding to the cost factor involved in newborn care.
Baseline Data Collection
conclusions
Identified causes
•Unsupervised handling of baby and the temperature probe by mothers and nurses •Lack of knowledge of nursing personnel
Faulty technique used for removing the temperature probe (pulling out the delicate portion of the probe). •Attitude a. Carelessness on the part of nursing
personnel. b. Unsupervised handling of the probe by the
mothers. •No documentationa. Non-availability of register/ records. b. Undefined responsibility for record
maintenance. c. Missing validation. d. Lack of accountability of nurses.
PDSA Cycle 1
• Sensitization of nurses through a refreshers’ course• Supervisory check of probe handling of nurses, by
the sister in-charge of NICU.• Documentation of the temperature probe breakage
in temperature probe maintenance register by the nurse educator and Sister in-charge (date of issue of probe, date of breakage and the number of days probe remained functional). • Responsibility and accountability among the
nursing personnel
PDSA Cycle 2
• Mothers’ teaching promoted by the assigned nurse at least 3 times during the baby’s stay in NICU about the handling of probe and detaching it from the side panel of radiant warmer. • Supervised handling of mother by the assigned
nurse.
This QI initiative involving mothers as team member improved the life span of probes nearly ten times. Parents involvement in adding value to context specific care in NICU need further evaluation.
Sensitisation of mothers by nursing staff
Life of temperature probe (days) before and after QI
Careful handling of the probe by the nursing staff
Team Members for QI Nurse Educator, 2 nurses, Resident doctor and mothers
POCQI LEARNER MANUAL
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QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (QI) PHASE I
BACKGROUND
To reduce average waiting time in GA (general anaesthesia) waiting area for admitted patients by 50% in 4 weeks in a single retina unit eye operation theatre of Dr R.P. Centre, AIIMS.
AIM
Only 1 case is operated in single general anaesthesia (GA) OT at any time, but a large number ofchildren are present in GA waiting area. This leads to unnecessary crowding, chaos, with many patientssitting on floor! Moreover, there is difficulty in coordination, increased risk of infection, and prolongedlong fasting period for small babies. It adds to the anxiety of child and attendant.
■ Only single JR will call ward – prevents multiple calls■ Do not call patient from ward before 8AM, as OT does not start till 8:30 ■ Call ward for 1st & 2nd case at 8AM to shift to OT [In case 1st case
cancelled, 2nd should be ready] ■ 3rd case call when 1st case comes out after surgery and so on …■ JR will physically escort cancelled patient out of OT – No cancelled
patient needs to wait
■ PAC clearance ensured for all patients previous day■ Cases informed to NICU previous day by email > No morning NICU calls■ Only one patient called by JR at 8AM■ Sister keeps patients ready in OT clothes at 8AM■ Sister advises patients to take stairs, to reach OT faster■ JR checks after 10 min in OT reception, brings patient inside ■ JR calls second case when: 1st case surgery starts (opsite cut) / Bilateral
surgery when 2nd eye surgery starts / Multipart surgery, last part starts
RESULTS
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (QI) PHASE 2
Average Waiting Time Reduced by 87% [221min (3½hr) � 29min(< ½hr) max Maximum Waiting Time Reduced by 87% [390 min (6½ hr) � 52 min (<1 hr)
BASELINE FLOWCHART & QUALITY ISSUES■ All 8/8 patients called before 8:30 AM ■ Of these 6/8 patients called before 8 AM !! – OT team comes at 8:30 AM■ 2 patients cancelled after 5 hours of waiting in OT■ For a 5 min intravitreal injection, an infected case waited 6.30 hrs■ Average Waiting Time: 221 min (~3½ hrs)■ Maximum Waiting Time: 390m (6½ hrs) ■ WAITING TIME = Time of entry to OT reception to shifting for surgery
■ Time Junior Resident (JR) calls to ward■ Time patient moves out of ward■ Time patient reports to OT reception
DATA COLLECTED
JR Calls ALL Ward Patients
Leaves Ward
Waits at OT reception
Waits GA Waiting
AreaSurgeryDecide
Waits for confirmation
Shifted for Surgery
Back to Ward
JR Calls for NICU Bed
YES
NO
Reduce Patients CalledFrom ward
Reduce waiting for cancelled patients
JR Calls First 2 Ward
Patients
Leaves Ward
Waits at OT reception
Waits GA Waiting
AreaSurgeryDecide
JR escorts out from OT
Shifted for Surgery
Back to Ward
JR Calls for NICU Bed
YES
NO
JR calls 3rd case after 1st Case Exits OT after surgery
Reduce 1st Case WaitReduce 2nd Case Wait
Reduce reception wait
Reduce intercasewait
Next Patient has to reach faster
No calls before 8AMOnly Single JR Calls
JR Calls First Ward
Patient
Pt Leaves Ward Faster
Waits at OT receptionJR Checks at 10 min
Waits GA Waiting
AreaSurgeryDecide
JR escorts out from OT
Shifted for Surgery
Back to Ward
NICU sent list by email previous day
YES
NO
JR calls 2nd case after -1st case surgery starts After second eye starts Last multipart surgery starts
No calls before 8AMOnly Single JR CallsPAC previous day done
Pt ready in OT ClothesPatient take stairs
Average Waiting Time Reduced by 87% [221min (3½hr) � 29min(< ½hr) max
QI Sustained
Maximum Waiting Time Reduced by 87% [390 min (6½ hr) � 52 min (<1 h
QI Needed
QI Done
QI Needed
QI Done
QI Needed
QI Done
MMaximum GA Area Waiting TimeAAverage GA Area Waiting Time
■ Time patient seated in GA waiting area■ Time patient shifted for surgery■ Time patient shifted out after surgery
QI Sustained
Conclusions: QI Significantly Reduced GA Waiting Area Times and Single JR Could Sustain QI Changes
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Content: Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS Designed & Printed at KL Wig CMET, AIIMS