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Improvement Science, PDSA (Plan Do Study Act)Tags
BMJ Quality, Jerome Leis, Kaveh Shojania, PDSAA primer on PDSA: executing plan-do-study-act cycles in practice, not just in name
“PDSA cycles constitute the cornerstone of the model of improvement and this method has obvious advantages when put into practice. The key to successfully harnessing this approach lies in making sure each cycle includes an explicitly stated prediction (or ‘plan’) and a test of change to answer the question…”