- Effective measurement framework
- QI self-evaluation guide and workbook
- Choosing your measures
- Analysing and presenting your data
- Surveys and qualitative data
- Measurement for Improvement Glossary
Effective measurement framework
The 7 steps for effective measurement for improvement: This document outlines the 7 steps and associated tasks to generate and use data effectively for improvement. It is helpful to ensure you don’t forget any key steps.
Guidance for choosing your measures:
- Prioritising Measures of Quality of Care checklist: This checklist helps you in developing or choosing measures (single measures / KPIs or families of measures) to understand the quality of care.
- Measurement Plan template: This tool describes the rationale behind choosing a measure, the type of measure, the relevant definitions and how to collect and present the measure, to ensure that a team has clarity on all aspects of measurement being carried out.
Guidance for analysing and presenting your data:
- Guide on using measurement for improvement methods: This resource provides guidance on how to present your data, including how to create run charts.
- Excel template for creating a 'C' chart: This document is an Excel template for creating an SPC “C” chart.
- Excel template for creating a Run Chart: This document is an Excel template for a Run chart.
- Excel template for 8 SPC charts: This is a template that allows calculation of 8 SPC charts, including the special cause. The template is in testing, available beta version. Two videos are also available to support the use of the template: basic and advanced. An updated version including 10 charts also available in beta version.
- Some 'Do's and Don'ts' of measurement: This document includes examples of some of the common mistakes people make inadvertently when dealing with measurement and best practices.
Guidance on surveys and qualitative data:
- Guidance on how to use and analyse surveys: Surveys are an effective way to quickly gather information and data when you are seeking feedback on a particular topic, fact and information about people or their knowledge, attitudes or opinions about something. This document offers guidance on designing, conducting, analysing and presenting surveys.
- Introduction to qualitative methods for QPS: The presentation covers what Qualitative Research is and the differences between qualitative and quantitative approaches to research and evaluation, including methods such as interviewing, focus groups, observation and documentary analysis and briefly addresses approaches to analysing qualitative data.
QI self-evaluation guide and workbook:
- QI Self-Evaluation Guide: This guide for self-evaluation and accompanying workbook has been developed to support teams who wish to evaluate their QI projects.
- QI Self-Evaluation Workbook: Editable templates to support your self- evaluation
Glossary
Measurement for Improvement Glossary: This document presents a glossary of measurement for improvement terms. It is recommended you consult the glossary to familiarise yourself with the technical terms we use in all our resources.
There are additional resources you can consult on LENUS, the Irish Health Repository https://www.lenus.ie/. Please use the key search term QPSIntelligence (no space) to locate our resources.