Model For Improvement Clip 1

Robert Lloyd, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, uses his trusty whiteboard to dissect the science of improvement.

The Model for Improvement is a simple yet powerful tool for accelerating improvement. The model is not meant to replace change models that organizations may already be using, but rather to accelerate improvement. This model has been used very successfully by hundreds of health care organisations in many countries to improve many different health care processes and outcomes.The model has two parts:Three fundamental questions, which can be addressed in any order.

The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle to test changes in real work settings. The PDSA cycle guides the test of a change to determine if the change is an improvement.